Sentences with phrase «of faith and practice»

And the ones that do make it there offer no challenge to the authority of scripture on matters of faith and practice.

A religion's a system of faith and practice, while a relationship is a connection between individuals that could be based on things like emotion, blood, common interest, etc..

In doing this we will find the foundation of both faith and practice.

Such logic can not be maintained consistently in every matter of faith and practice.

The phrase sola scriptura refers to the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture as the theological norm — the only infallible rule of faith and practice — over all tradition rather than the mere rejection of tradition itself.

They must realize that her understanding of the faith and the practice of her life must be courageously changed, if she is to remain the pillar of truth and the home of Christian existence.

If shinjin is a spiritual state attained through meditiational practice, then this understanding of faith and practice is quite different from my Protestant one.

On the other hand, one must welcome the true conquests of the Enlightenment, human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its practice, and recognize these as being essential elements for the authenticity of religion. . . .

From these papers and from other contacts I have had with Pure Land Buddhism, I sense that there are disagreements as to how to understand the relation of faith and practice.

Now, however, interest has shifted more and more to unmediated aggiornamento, the updating of faith and practice by direct translation into presumably more intelligible and relevant modern idioms and actions.

If the total coincidence of transcendence and immanence is vision, and not structure of existence, then the traditional styles of faith and practices of faith may still have possible meaning, even though they are seen to be penultimate; and then the radical theologian can be understood as standing in a spectrum of theological positions and not in isolation.

It is undoubtedly true that the «complete and total devotion to God», of which their letter speaks as being at the heart of Islam, is, on its own terms, an impressive feature of their faith and practice, from which we can learn.

A canonical approach, in Brevard Childs» words, «interprets the biblical text in relation to a community of faith and practice for whom it served a particular theological role as possessing divine authority.»

They were attracted to what they saw of the faith and practices of early Christian communities; only later did they come to understand very much about the faith, after a prolonged program of catechesis made them proficient in an alien grammar and way of life.

Nine years later, in Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church, 393 U. S. 440 (1969), the Court held that Georgia's common law, which implied a trust upon local church property for the benefit of the general church only on the condition that the general church adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property disputes.

I received my masters from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2006, where I also studied the integration of faith and the practice of clinical psychology.

The mainline Reformers of the sixteenth century posited what is called the «formal principle,» which holds that the Scriptures are (in the words of the 2000 Amsterdam Declaration) «the inspired revelation of God... totally true and trustworthy, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.»

A religion's a system of faith and practice, while...

Not only this, they don't agree about what the Bible says about significant, defining issues of faith and practice.

(2) I take Scripture to be, on what I think to be good and sufficient evidence, the prescriptive norm and paradigm tradition, the canon and rule of faith and practice.

The James O'Kelly Christian Church, which represents an important southern heritage of the United Church of Christ, underscores other nonhierarchical biblical Reformation concerns by viewing the Scriptures as «the only creed, a sufficient rule of faith and practice.»

But for the other half, an intentional retrieval and construction of tradition is replacing the Lake Wobegon Lutherans with New York and St. Paul Lutherans — their Lutheranism no longer taken for granted, but now chosen; no longer a matter of enclave and birth, but now a matter of faith and practice.

This was especially true of Noah Webster, who states that the Alcoran of the Muslims is not likely to become the American «rule of faith and practice.»

Third, Protestants take the Bible as the supreme authority in matters of faith and practice.

For the copies it is claimed only that they have no error that would mislead us in matters of faith and practice.

We confess that we believe the words of Scripture to be the inspired Word of God and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.