Sentences with phrase «mean by a dogma»

The formulation of Revelation's content into statements is what we mean by a dogma.

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, and that means that all political communities are formed by dogmas that they mistake for truth.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

Anyone who previously had unthinkingly understood the dogma of the primacy of the pope as meaning that the bishops were only subordinate, provincial papal officials, was given a fundamental lesson by Vatican II.

A clue: it does NOT mean pushing man - made Catholic dogma on everyone by force of law.

Ephesians 1 Revelation 2 Freedom of religion also means that you as Christian may not force me as a Christian to bow to your dogma I believe John is correct in identifying Paul to be false Remember Satan is a persecutor created by God and God does not make mistakes right Jesus was not persecutor.

What I meant by that is I do not have to refer to a specific authority, whether it be the Bible, a Pastor, a certain set of dogmas, a god, ect.

This is the scarcely questioned and surprising result today of an enquiry which for almost two hundred years has devoted prodigious and by no means fruitless effort to regain and expound the life of the historical Jesus, freed from all embellishment by dogma and doctrine.»

Christian religions live by their dogma, which by definition means they pick and choose what they want to believe from the Bible.

Occasionally, Hartshorne even speaks of a «besouled body,» but by such language he means only the probability of certain modes of action and experience that embody a given personality's characteristic traits.11 Consequently, he suggests that, when a person's body goes into a deep, dreamless sleep, the soul loses its actuality, only to regain it when the person awakens.12 Understandably, therefore, he disregards as inapplicable to his own view Gilbert Ryle's well - known caricature of Cartesian anthropological dualism as «the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine» — especially since Hartshorne denies that the human body is a «machine» in any materialistic, mechanical sense.13

By the fundamentalist Protestant type we mean those churches which hold to the verbal inspiration and hence the literal inerrancy of the Bible, and which defend as of vital importance certain creedal dogmas, notably the virgin birth, the blood atonement, the physical resurrection of Christ, and his visible second coming.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxBy an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxby the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

Vic You know in your heart you are stating this multi cultural / religious nation must be dominated by the Christian religion, but you Christians can not even get together on what you mean as a religion, so many different dogmas.

If one is talking about further understanding of and investigation into a truth taught by the Church in the process of the development of dogma then the hermeneutic criteria given by the Church herself apply in the case of infallible teaching and non-infallible teaching: genuine further understanding must retain the same meaning and judgment regarding the teachings put forward by the Church (cf. Dei Filius, Vatican I).

The guiding element in Teilhard's world view was his introduction of the evolutionary principle into God's relationship with man, by means of which he wove a vision that both broke from the traditional transcendence - immanence dualism and challenged many timeworn dogmas of divine providence.

The MRFIT results should have acted as a wake - up call, but because they did not fit with the by - then - established dogma, they were explained away by various means and quietly forgotten.

«EBacc dogma and rising pupil numbers mean that far more teachers are needed for EBacc subjects, yet the government have still failed to make the profession more attractive by achieving significant reductions in teachers» workload or reversing real - term pay cuts.

Those familiar with Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise and its epedemic status in Japan may have been slightly less surprised by this; and whilst there are certainly shades of one on the other, the worldwide launch of Dragon's Dogma shows that this time they mean business about getting everyone on board.

While this might be sacred dogma to capitalists, it is by no means the most cost - efficient, coordinated, or expeditious way to proceed.

Taken almost as a dogma, the AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks and is volleyed relentlessly upon us by the media and many scientific institutions (including some pseudo-scientific ones), while gullible or opportunistic politicians devise all possible means of inserting climate - motivated items into their power - seeking schemes....

In everyday discourse we mean one thing by dogma that implies that the writer's authority is the basis of belief in a tenet.

They are not the source of the dogma since they are controlled totally by political means.