Sentences with phrase «old doctrine of original sin»

Actually, even Niebuhr sought to protect God from the full implications of the old doctrine of original sin.

They, no more than Niebuhr, had any use for the insights hidden within the old doctrine of original sin.

Unlike West, she relates her insights to the old doctrine of original sin, stating that «feminism can rediscover the meaning of the fall in a radically new way» (SGT 37).

For the present, my aim has been to explore new foundations for the old doctrine of original sin, allowing us once again to name its power.

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Niebuhr would, of course, understand that nothing he wrote had eternal value; his cautions that we should be sparing in handing out bouquets are found on virtually every page of his writings, along with his affirmation of such old - fashioned doctrines as original sin and the transcendence of God.

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.