Sentences with phrase «of the religious doctrine of»

It has been suggested by some scientists and theologians that this provides a confirmation of the religious doctrine of creation.

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Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

Religious thinking on foreign policy soon became another strand of Progressive doctrine.

Those who live a life of denial and escape from suffering, usually couched in the religious language of triumphalism, positivism and prosperity doctrines, often lack that integrity.

@Bryan — funny, I see the biggest and most hypocritical violations of Christian doctrine by Fundamentalist Christians who are quick to try to enforce their religious law on non-adherents.

For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure word.

Additionally, that fact that religious groups have killed in the name of their religion does not translate into that religion's doctrine.

He seems to argue for maintaining Christian orthodoxy, but he says, «What leaves me dissatisfied with the beliefs said to be necessary for the creation of «strong religious communities» is that they are relatively peripheral doctrines.»

That is exactly what the book deals with, the «nature» of Christ and the religious wars, both political and physical, that shaped their doctrine of faith.

The religious whose doctrines rely strictly on a literal interpretation are most at risk of losing their faith through education and understanding the history of the bible.

MY gauge is a bit more accurate, those who abuse their religious doctrines as an excuse to commit murder and arson do NOT represent the vast majority of those who follow that particular faith.

and while examining a candidate's religion is perfectly reasonable from the plane of the individual, the media overblowing controversial religious doctrine, often misinterpreting or misrepresenting, and attacking individuals solely because of their proclaimed religion, is simply negative, unproductive news.

Of course, one may find atheist in large groups, or find banners, t - shirts... As an atheist myself I am overwhelmed by religious doctrine which I prefer to be absent from.

Rigid adherence to a very strict set of doctrines is not limited to any particular belief, religious or otherwise.

The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle with the thorny questions of divine and human agency, as have home - grown religious movements like Mormonism and Christian Science....

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.

The right to religions» freedom of religion is infringing upon my choice to not follow a specific religious doctrine.

a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere anthropomorphisms, since obviously Gad can not be described in emotional and temporal terms — or so the doctrine goes, despite massive evidence of religious experience to the contrary.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the church's doctrinal watchdog, on Wednesday announced the conclusion of a years - long «doctrinal assessment» investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80 % of the Catholic nuns in the United States.

Without the control provided by the doctrine of creation, they devalued human experience, dismissing it as having no positive religious value.

An immigration judge can not quiz asylum seekers on religious doctrine to see if they are credible about their faith, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reiterated in a January ruling.

We are not just talking about a convergence of disciplines, but of an authentically global synthesis in which the various forms of knowledge... find common ground in a shared personal and social vision... We must not imagine that the socio - cultural challenge of today can be met with theological thought that specialises in the content of doctrine or concentrates on religious experience.

There is a HUGE difference between attempting to legislate religious doctrine and well established, secular laws of the land.

In Chapter VI, we will consider whether his philosophic doctrine can illumine aspects of religious experience in relation to which he did not himself test it.

Section 188 of the Austrian Criminal Code, called «Vilification of Religious Teachings», criminalizes «Anyone who publicly disparages a person or thing that is the object of worship of a domestic church or religious society, or a doctrinReligious Teachings», criminalizes «Anyone who publicly disparages a person or thing that is the object of worship of a domestic church or religious society, or a doctrinreligious society, or a doctrine».

For the first time in our religious tradition, this prophet stated the doctrine of salvation by a minority.

While it is impossible in a scientific age to consider any literal acceptance of the doctrine of resurrection, it does point even better than the doctrine of immortality to some of the fundamentals of religious experience mentioned above.

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

Rollo May has put us particularly in his debt by his insistence that an «ontology of human existence» is required even with the strict limits of psychological theory.16 But now we go beyond the general doctrine of man to the Christian answer to the religious question.

If we do not wish to speculate about this other world of which we can have no experience here, it is still important to recognize the religious dimension of the problem to which the doctrine of immortality is an attempted answer.

In terms of the fundamentals of religious experience, these doctrines must be interpreted chiefly in the light of the experience of imperfection.

He even denies that religious experience provides adequate warrant for affirming the actuality of God, since «the Eastern Asiatic concept of an impersonal order to which the world conforms» is given equal status with other doctrines.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

I should say it is the earliest of which we have any trace, and further that it is hard to see how any simpler or more primitive conception could have resulted in a new departure in religious doctrine, with the total result that not only the New Testament but all early Christian theology makes evident.

The first hypothesis will be denied not only by positivists but also by philosophers who take seriously the religious implications of a doctrine of God as infinite, immutable, simple, and necessary.

They need not wait: they can find all kinds of neat and well - defined religious doctrines and polities in many other nations.

As we attempted to outline in our last editorial, when we search the pages of human history we do find such a line of spiritual and religious tradition that not only claims the direct authority of the Absolute Transcendent One whose name is «I Am Who I Am», but is also coherently developmental in doctrine and in providence across millennia.

The significance of this doctrine has not been lost on poets and theologians, and especially on one of the greatest of English religious poets Gerard Manley Hopkins.

The religious schools, which are only concerned with teaching the Qur» an, Islamic doctrines, and Arabic, have greatly declined in the cities and villages because of the spread of modern schools and are now found chiefly in the desert and the lodges of the Sufi orders.

I am quite sure that they are wrong, but my point here is that Whitehead's lack of appreciation of the religious importance of the no - self doctrine leads some of his readers to think they can follow him in general without appropriating this doctrine.

Surely we may ask him whether his view of the Church, too, must not include doctrines that ought not even to be tolerated in the Church if she is to have one confession and not to degenerate into a mere external religious organization.

Religious freedom was guaranteed to Protestants by a doctrine - separation of church and state - that was intended to deny that same freedom to Catholics.

Gregory of Nyssa, Address on Religious Instruction, The Library of Christian Doctrine, Vol.

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.

And now they have the impression that people are discussing anything and everything, questioning everything, that everything is collapsing, that their own perhaps hard - earned and dearly - bought rigid adherence to the doctrine, and above all the traditional practice, of the Church even to the slightest concrete detail of the style of religious and secular life, is disavowed and almost despised by the Church and its leading representatives.

One of the creative process philosophers, Charles Hartshorne, states in the beginning of Man's Vision of God his conviction that «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that of such systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new) is implicit in the religious faith most briefly expressed in the three words, God is love».1 If this be true what is needed is not the discarding of metaphysics but the exploration of this new possibility in the doctrine of God's being.

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.

This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination against people of faith - would seem to be the necessary result of a doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.

The response of others among Whitehead's admirers is to appreciate the possibility, through our encounter with Buddhism, to learn of the positive existential and religious importance of this doctrine.