Sentences with phrase «on orthodox belief»

The assault on orthodox belief has not died out.

Not exact matches

Now, if someone wants to prove to me that not all Mormons believe in their orthodox views on the afterlife or gender, then I'll be much more accepting of Mormon belief.

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

«Articulating orthodox Christian theological beliefs and moral convictions itself is and ought to be an expression of grace,» said Philip Ryken, president of Wheaton, explaining the college's stance on sexual behavior in response to OneWheaton's emergence.

Bruno, a Dominican friar, held to all sorts of novel, and non - Christian, opinions on faith, giving credence more to exotic ancient - Egyptian beliefs than to orthodox Christology; and while he also followed a number of astronomy hypotheses, such as the existence of a plurality of worlds, yet it was not this that sealed his unfortunate fate.

But there is no doubting the popularity and fruits of the charismatic influence, with many of its adherents being instinctively on the side of orthodox belief and moral precepts.

They are therefore looked upon, not as a separate sect, but rather as a group of conservative, orthodox Muslims whose belief is centered around the Qur» an and the Hadith, who seek to express their faith in word and deed, and whose object is the reestablishment of the Muslim state on the basis of Muslim jurisprudence.

But this was contrary to the Old Side orthodox view, which stressed the strict adherence to a confession of faith and argued that the presbytery, and ultimately a synod, determines the fitness of a man for the ministry on the basis of his education and doctrinal beliefs, and an external call from a congregation.

Unfortunately, in the Western Church, after the substitution of «right beliefs» for «works» or «fruits of the Spirit» as the sign of authentic faith by in classical Protestantism and the Enlightenment's emphasis on a reductionistic understanding of reason based solely on empirical logic, faith became confused with orthodox theological beliefs.

He was, of course, always more neo-orthodox than orthodox in his beliefs, and his essay on the concept of «basic Judaism» shows him struggling, as so many other thoughtful modern Jews do, to extract what is enduring and imperishable in the Jewish understanding of life: «groping to establish rapport with the Jewish tradition, standing at the synagogue door.»

Certainly in the leadership of the church there is some pretty orthodox agreement, but attendance, involvement, and even belonging are not predicated on affirming certain beliefs — not even belief in the existence of God.

She goes on to identify this as both a Roman Catholic and an orthodox Protestant belief.

But Protestants in those 3 countries diverge on many measures of orthodox belief and practice, according to a detailed survey of 19 Latin American countries and territories by the Pew Research Center.

If there had been any attempt to suppress the applicant's freedom to criticize orthodox religious beliefs through her «church», that might have been a Charter issue, but having her picture in a prescribed form on her driver's licence did not — especially since she had eventually agreed to be photographed in a «woman pirate's outfit» that met the rules, so she had a licence anyway.