Sentences with phrase «orthodox belief»

Even among people who consider themselves to have a perfectly orthodox belief in the Trinity and the Incarnation there is a good deal of confusion as to precisely what these mean.

They assume not only a settled ecclesiastical system in the Church, but also an established body of orthodox beliefs against which to judge heresy and, what is most significant, a collection of Christian Scriptures.

Which leads to the question: Can clergy believe whatever they want, as long as they keep it to themselves while publicly upholding orthodox beliefs?

In 1958, Michael Argyle wrote: «Although intelligent children grasp religious concepts earlier, they are also the first to doubt the truth of religion, and intelligent students are much less likely to accept orthodox beliefs, and rather less likely to have pro-religious attitudes.»

A variety of historical shifts in art, education, and politics have precipitated a loss of cultural power for the Church in the West, so we have to study how our culture rejects orthodox belief for a syncretistic mixture of Christianity and either capitalistic nationalism or pseudoscientific progressivism.

Two things: (1) that I place myself firmly and staunchly within the Church and the Christian faith; and (2) that I am firmly and staunchly convinced that much of what the Church has taught as doctrine for most of its twenty centuries, and much of what constitutes orthodox belief today, is just plain wrong.

Teenagers express a burgeoning interest in learning about other faith traditions, yet most remain faithful to their own orthodox beliefs.

The assault on orthodox belief has not died out.

Wright is the most orthodox of the well - known historical Jesus scholars; I can count on one hand the number of historical Jesus scholars who hold orthodox beliefs.

It is, and has always been, the prerogative of the Chinese state to define orthodox belief and to set the boundaries for religious groups whose doctrines fall outside official limits.

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.

In order for our witness to mean anything to ourselves, our kids, or anyone who might darken our doors, we have to think about the culture we live in and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are true.

We have at last outgrown those who had outgrown God (though in our present state of intellectual confusion that by no means guarantees a return to orthodox belief).

If Christ is eternal, if he was offered to mankind before and after he came in the flesh, which Maurice claims is orthodox belief, then we can say that Christ spoke through the prophets and speaks today.

Early Christian theologians rejected this view as they defined the borders of orthodox belief.

I think it is a cop - out to wholly accept an orthodox belief system that purports to explain everything so long as you have «faith» and ignore anything that challenges that faith.

The orthodox belief that the dead go immediately to heaven to be with Jesus has sometimes caused Christians to try to not grieve, but to rejoice.

We have already seen that the orthodox belief in the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth is (1) only one of the possible ways of explaining his centrality that can be developed from the New Testament; (2) does not fall within the limits of what is logically possible; and (3) is contrary to our common sense.

At the present moment the orthodox belief is that for all men after death there are such routes, and that for all animals after death there are no such routes.

We do not have to think alike to love alike, which is why the Scriptures plainly state that Christians are to be known by their selfless service to others, not by their orthodox beliefs.

Christian mystics have at times made statements (viewed as heretical) expressing the ultimate unity of God and man and, in mediated form, the unity of God and man through Christ is an orthodox 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.

The church became attractive to new executive families moving into Wiltshire, but service to their private needs further diminished the linkage of Wiltshire to Methodism, orthodox beliefs, and wider community concerns.

Here, in another conscientious objection case, the Court decided «belief in relation to a Supreme Being,» thus exemption, is to be determined by «whether a given belief that is sincere and meaningful occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God of one who clearly qualifies for the exemption.»

Seeger and Welsh set out a distinction — any sincere and meaningful belief occupies a place parallel to that of orthodox belief.

A traditional Christian, upholding the orthodox belief in God's absolute freedom with respect to creation can capture both these insights by a properly articulated doctrine of the Trinity.

Classical liberalism remained the orthodox belief among American businessmen until the Great Depression.

Tewhaedo is a Ge'ez word meaning «being made one» or «unified» and refers to the orthodox belief in the unified nature of Christ.