Sentences with phrase «meaning of doctrines»

On the other hand, if his desire was to change more than words, or to change them in some significant and deeper way, it is hard to see how he could have avoided changes in the sense and meaning of the doctrines set forth.

The discussion, I hope, illustrates my major point that when you ask the meaning of a doctrine or, in other words, what was the insight or truth of experience that those who formulated these doctrines wanted to safeguard, you find yourself grappling with them with concepts almost too difficult for words.

5 The word (Greek) which is usually translated «perfect» occurs fairly frequently in Paul's letters.6 The problem of the various forms of perfectionism in Christianity has been thoroughly analyzed in such works as Dr. Sangster's Path to Perfection, a study of John Wesley, and R. Newton Flews» The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology.7 The meaning of this doctrine of perfection is one problem for Christian faith.

By means of his doctrines of sociality and altruism Hartshorne believes that he destroys any possible basis for a self - defeating atomistic and solipsistic human individualism.

And whenever there has been a re-creation of that original life and experience in Christian history, the meaning of the doctrine has been illuminated afresh.

The practical meaning of this doctrine is what Jews and Christians can together bring into the public square.

This doctrine of radical freedom does not mean that every possible meaning of the doctrine of predestination is negated.

An essential first step is to recover the core meaning of the doctrine.

It also challenges the meaning of doctrine, as we show that the vast majority of judicial work — almost 90 % of substantive orders, and 97 % of all judicial actions — are not fully reasoned, and are read only by the parties.

Case law shall complement the legal system by means of the doctrine repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court in its interpretation and application of statutes, customs and general legal principles.

Not exact matches

«A well established academic doctrine argues that markets are efficient, meaning that the price of a stock fully incorporates all known information and judgement about that stock.

I mean, there are some concrete ideas, but as for all the doctrine that's been pounded into me, a lot of that I still question.

This means that we do best not to defend doctrines as abstract truths but rather to testify to others by telling the story of our own faith journey.

And, I do not mean the Earth Religion, tree hugging, butterfly feelings, abortionists defending animal rights, kick the Bible out of society morans finding peace in Bhuddism or any other false doctrine.

It does mean beyond cavil that Michael Novak has contributed significantly to the development of Catholic social doctrine at the highest level of its teaching authority.

For the true claims of Jews and Christians are based on the doctrine of revelation, which means that they are essentially the recipients of a message about the world, one given to them from the only source who can see the world from the perspective of transcendence — sub specie divinitatis.

The marks of the Catholic church are: One - In doctrine, sacraments, and head (the pope); Holy - its sacraments and teachings lead men to holiness; Universal - meaning the same doctrine and sacraments and head throughout the world; and Apostolic - can be directly traced to the Apostles and Jesus Christ.

At a meeting in the fall of 1996, it was determined that further progress depended upon firm agreement on the meaning of salvation, and especially the doctrine of justification.

The covenant was not simply a piece of paper affirming partnership no matter what, but instead a means to secure the «robust accountability» and «gracious restraint» that characterize deep relationships rooted in mutual recognition of catholic faith and order, grounded in creedal doctrine, and answerable to the authoritative word of Scripture.

They carried around the tablets of the 10 commandments, you know... the covenent (hence the name ark of the covenant), and it had as much meaning to them as transsubstantiation does to good christians who, by doctrine, have to believe they are legit eating and drinking christ, which is whackier in your opinion?

Here you begin to understand the meaning of verses and creeds and doctrines.

The only reason mormonism accepted blacks in the 70s was simply because of a temple being built in Brazil, before discovering that many Brazilians were mixed with blacks which meant according to their doctrine they were unworthy to enter the temple.

1 Timothy 4:1 - 3 — But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

The statement says that the book is incompatible with Catholic doctrine on three crucial scores: Jesus Christ as the unique and universal Savior of all; the salvific character of non-Christian religions; and the Church as the ordinary means of salvation.

That's what the doctrine of the Sovereignty of God means.

Since Latter - day Saints believe in continuing, modern revelation, that means that we follow what is in the canonized scriptures (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price) AND whatever our current leaders teach.

The most simple doctrine of Equality, means equality for all.

It is, like all of Calvinism's doctrines, not explicitly taught anywhere in scripture, but extrapolated by taking a few verses or partial verses out of context and granting them a meaning never intended by the authors.

But the real linchpin in Calvinism is their doctrine of total depravity, which actually means «total inability.»

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

Besides the fact that virtually no one in this country has ever been prohibited from saying «Merry Christmas» in the first place, such a sentiment stands in blasphemous contradiction to the very doctrine of incarnation we are meant to embrace this time of year.

What Whitehead means by physical or causal prehension is not a species of perception in this sense, and it is not to he understood in terms of the Neoplatonic doctrine.

The doctrine of the ascension may have been given bad press because of its popular meaning, which seems related to ideas like «ascending to the third floor,» and less often to «ascending to the place of power.»

(Mt 16:17) Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

Now, if you want to take your favourite sin and insert it into the meaning, go ahead, but don't expect anybody to be fooled by your assertions and don't expect anybody to be convinced of your doctrine that you build on such a shaky foundation.

It brings to light the tangled hierarchy in their doctrine and shows what their beliefs actually mean using only the logical quantifiers of propositional calculus, that either (Mormonism is FALSE or Women are DAMNED).

What total depravity is meant to convey is the idea that sin has affected the whole person down to the very core or root of his or her being (Boice & Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 71).

Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

But what does this assertion of internal relatedness mean, particularly in light of the fact that Whitehead tells us in Adventures of Ideas (p. 157) that the traditional doctrine of «internal relations is distorted by reason of its description in terms of language adapted to presuppositions of the Newtonian type»?

As we explore the meaning of Christ, we need to remember that no category of thought, no picture of Jesus, no doctrine of Christ can fully apprehend him.

He seeks the essence of an idea, a doctrine, a point of view; and when he finds it, he discards all the qualifications with which it is surrounded in order to elicit its pure and radical meaning.

... In the Christian religion, theologians have argued, the doctrine that in Jesus Christ God is present to men and that the Holy Spirit transforms the face of the earth means that men need not leave history to encounter the transcendent God» (p. 267).

The doctrine of Inspiration creates a whole mass of people who think the words themselves are God's Word, and so simply by quoting a verse, they are speaking the words of God, even if they don't have a clue what the words mean.

But to understand the primacy of Christ and the novelty of what it means, we should first contrast with it the doctrine that is more familiar.

This social doctrine provided the alternative to the Marxist notion that revolution and the collectivizing of the means of the production would establish a just society in which charity is superfluous.

This fact means that the task of the doctrine of analogy is not to justify such discourse but simply to describe and explain it.

The doctrine that sexuality is a primary means of communication bears upon our appraisal of the new freedom of sexual language and imagery in the literature and art of our century.

We simply do not know what the doctrines of atonement, incarnation and redemption mean until we understand what they mean for persons shaped by this historical milieu.

Since it is five steps away from atheism out of a possible six, lovers of the letter of orthodoxy who might feel inclined to attack case two as little better than atheism, or as a blasphemous or at best a crudely inept doctrine, might pause, before indulging in such judgment, long enough to consider — and I am confident they will not have done so before — what the five steps really mean.

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»