But again it doesn't really matter as celibacy is a practice,
more than a doctrine.
Thanks to them, Whitehead's philosophy is
more than a doctrine of causation; it is a doctrine of objectification.
The idea of the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven is not just picture language,
any more than the doctrine of Christ's pre-existence.
Again, the difference is one of language and emphasis
more than doctrine, but language and emphasis are important, and I prefer Whitehead's.
Not exact matches
For instance, in a similar step - transaction -
doctrine issue with partial 1035 annuity exchanges and subsequent liquidations (which allowed annuity owners to get
more favorable treatment in the multi-step process
than could have been obtained if treated as a whole), the IRS ultimately declared in Revenue Procedure 2008 - 24 that as long as the taxpayer waited at least 12 months between the 1035 exchange and the subsequent liquidation, it would be allowed.
Christian
doctrines are
more realistic
than any ideology in existence regarding human nature.
Except, again, that the
doctrines you are espousing are built
more on
doctrines developed by men over the last 2000 years
than on what the bible actually says.
Christianity's
doctrine about «the law» teaches that G - d is like Pharoh, demanding
more than we can deliver.
«There is no
doctrine which I would
more willingly remove from Christianity
than the
doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power.
You can continue to spew out your immoral
doctrine until you die, that doesn't make it true, and that doesn't make you any
more pious even though you really want to feel better
than everyone else because of it.
More than fifty years ago a young man in his twenties spouted an evil
doctrine.
If we thought that, then we may be able to fit creation as a
doctrine more easily into our theological systems, rather
than reducing it to the relationship between science and the Bible or us and the environment.
The discipline of place teaches that it is
more than enough to care skillfully and lovingly for oneâ $ ™ s own little circle, and this is the model for the good life, not the limitless jurisdiction of the ego, granted by a
doctrine of choice, that is ever seeking its own fulfillment, pleasure, and satiation.
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923 - 2006) was the greatest historian of Christian
doctrine since Adolf von Harnack, and he was both
more comprehensive and
more sympathetic to the tradition he studied
than was the great scion of German liberal Protestantism.
How about all you «magic underwear» bashing, «Not Christian» branding, cult calling, people that profess to know
more about Mormon
doctrine than Mormons do.
And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious
doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as
more important
than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything
more, except put money when the basket is passed.
Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian
doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much
more impersonal and materialistic
than the approach sketched in these pages.
If experience is
more important
than doctrine, and no
doctrine is immune to revision» both of which are conclusions of Olson's postconservatives» how do we know that our fresh readings are not derived as much from our experience as from the biblical text?
I think it means that we need to hold onto our
doctrines a little
more loosely
than we do.
More sustained
than his vision of judgment is his statement of Christian faith and
doctrine in verse.
In general they seem to accept it as far
more cousinly to their own
doctrines than anything else Protestantism has produced since the days of the Reformation.
At least, Grandmere, you're acknowledging that, within the
doctrine «free will», humans are
more powerful
than God.
Why else would there be
more than 300,000 churches in the US... each one certain that it possesses the truth, right belief /
doctrine, and the «one and only way?»
That
doctrine will be
more thoroughly trinitarian
than any example I know of.
But I am infinitely
more fulfilled in my solitary search
than I ever was inside those church buildings and
doctrine.
So here is my question,
more for the religious
than anyone else: If you know you will go to heaven because the
doctrine your foliow says you will (i.e. christians declaring jesus is their lord and savior, or muslims believing in Allah and Muhammed) then why is there any sadness at a wake or a funeral at all?
What is
more important, the earlier critics did less
than justice to the fact that the Bible has its own
doctrine about the nature of history, which deserves to be understood and appreciated in itself.
Conservatives who fear that President Trump may be
more like the decadent Belshazzar, feasting while the kingdom falls,
than like the liberating Cyrus must pray that Lutherans remember the Two Kingdoms
Doctrine.
I allowed the Word of Faith preachers to teach me their unsound
doctrine and I held them in
more esteem
than Jesus.
According to the classical
doctrine, divine justice must be
more fundamental
than divine mercy, because justice is essential to God and mercy is not.
More important
than the mere fact that Whitehead too could not understand the world apart from God, is the particular form that his
doctrine of God takes.
The
doctrine of Incarnation is far
more crucial for the Hegelian
than is the historical reconstruction of the authentic sayings of Jesus.
Hence in his presentation, the consequent nature of God appears
more as a speculative extension of the
doctrine than as an essential part.
But in the story of Jesus we are dealing with
more than just
doctrine.
The discussion will be somewhat
more extensive
than otherwise appropriate to this context because this
doctrine is crucial to other theological positions as well as to that of Thomism.
He must learn
more than ever before to bear his own responsibility within the concrete Church and not in a basic, though secret opposition to her, and to cope also with the historical conditions of her
doctrine and practice in freely given obedience.
He sees far
more deeply into Christian
doctrine than that.
If the Church is cautious in questions of
doctrine and discipline, perhaps even
more so
than in the past, if she waits for
more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.
I would imagine that «correct
doctrine» has done
more damage in the world
than most anything else.
This issue is
more directly about the
doctrine of God
than strictly Christology, but it deeply affects Christology as well.
Either way, it would appear that
doctrine matters quite a bit
more than your post suggests, no?
That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the
doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing
more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.
Though he denied having much knowledge of religious
doctrines and affairs, he nevertheless displayed a deeply human sensitivity that made of his comic artistry something considerably
more than an occasional tickle on the periphery of our existence.
Even as early as his 1845 Essay on the Development of
Doctrine, written while he was still an Anglican but already
more than halfway out the door (he became a Catholic while the book was still in the printery), he was defending the idea of infallibility, and precisely as a bulwark against infidelity in all its forms:
But if we could unite, if we could love one another, if we could agree that love for others was
more important
than being right about the rapture, then maybe the church would stop dividing over
doctrine, and start showing the world what the love of God really looks like.
Indeed, it is striking that those attracted to Whitehead in the West often resist this
doctrine of no continuing self
more than anything else in his philosophy.
We believe that the trouble is not that religious questions are inescapably involved in obscurity but that adherence to traditional
doctrines is regarded as
more important
than clarity and universal intelligibility.
By the
doctrine of the Trinity Christians have, however, wanted to say
more than that God's activity is known in three ways.
That is an ancient
doctrine of the faith, but too often today people shy away from it and try to mitigate the revealed truth that a religious vocation is
more perfect
than any secular life can be.
It is nowadays widely recognized that what became the orthodox Christian
doctrine of the soul owes
more to Platonic philosophy
than to any other source.