Sentences with phrase «orthodox belief in»

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

I find it interesting that people who adhere to orthodox / fundamentalist streams of Christianity feel the need to make everyone live as they do (regardless of their beliefs)-- it's as though the only way these people can come close to living in accordance with their views is to make sure everyone else pretends to be like them in order to remove the temptation for them.

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 truIn 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 truin 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 truin 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).

they are orthodox and live in ancient idiotic belief system, what make them think they have any business using technology?

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.

Hitler, for a time, advocated for Germans a form of the Christian faith he called «Positive Christianity», [244][245] a belief system purged of what he objected to in orthodox Christianity, and featuring added racist elements.

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.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

It is certainly not a church that teaches orthodox Christian beliefs in any way shape or form.

Only by abandoning its original faith in the dawning Kingdom of God that is in actual process of realizing itself could orthodox Christianity arrive at its belief in the transcendent and solitary God who is the Wholly Other.

The discrepancy between the orthodox teaching of an eternity of punishment for those predestined to damnation and the belief in God's love is one of the too rarely examined problems in traditional Christian doctrine.

The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the orthodox image of Christ, for the Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory of his generation in the image of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.

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.

Holmes concludes the book by describing the beliefs of modern presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush, proving that since World War II the presidents have moved in a more orthodox and even evangelical direction, which seems ironic considering the assumed rise of secularity in America.

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.

It's not about having strong beliefs about salvation or about the Bible or about the afterlife; it's about how you practice a set of rituals or how you live your life, as in the case of orthodox Judaism, that orients you toward God.

The «orthodox» theologian, for example, is content to find sufficient warrants and backings for his or her theological statements in the «beliefs» of a particular church tradition.

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.»

Yet he is not alone in this belief, of course, many well respected and orthodox Christians throughout the ages have held to the scientific evidence of the universe while still affirming the creeds and Scripture fully.

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.

In contrast, traditionalists have reacted to change by reemphasizing orthodox religious beliefs, stressing historic religious practices, and identifying with religious movements working to maintain or restore the «old - time religion.»

Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook mistakes.

Certainly not a Dorothy Day, who, despite some of her crack - brained political views, was 100 % orthodox in belief, practice and obedience.

Only in the nineteenth century, when orthodox religious belief reappeared, were the fullness and depth of the human soul again available to writers.

Virginia Burrus, in her article «The Heretical Woman as Symbol in Alexander, Athanasius, Epiphanius, and Jerome,» Harvard Theological Review, 84:3 (1991) 229 - 248, points out how her analysis has indicated that the sources examined «speak loudly and clearly of the preoccupations of the men who articulated their orthodox identity through the use of woman as a symbol of the threatening forces of sexuality, social chaos, and false belief.»

For the religiously orthodox, religious belief systems were felt to represent «objective» reality as it really is, and thus if one of them is true the others must be false, either absolutely or in some degree.

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 employees were discharged because they no longer met an essential job prerequisite: that they genuinely affirm their belief in a statement of orthodox Christian faith as understood by the World Vision board.»

Let me close by saying that «cult» does NOT equal «bad people», or in any other way imply disqualification from political office, it is simply a way to distinguish those belief systems which are heretical from the perspective of orthodox Christianity.

I used to love witnessing to non-believers and loved defending my belief in (the Christian) God and orthodox / conservative Christianity.

This is evident, he argues, because they not only claim correctly that «God can interact with us, his creatures,» but also conclude, contrary to «a central belief of orthodox Christian thought» that «God freely created the world ex nihilo,» that «God needs the world in order to be who he is» (AE 127).

It is against this background, with this understanding of Christianity, this apprehension of the truth in the «orthodox» position, and yet this belief in the necessity for the «modernist» attitude, that the preaching of the gospel can make sense today.

Instead of following the Greek - influenced idea of orthodoxy as right belief... the emerging community is helping us to rediscover the more Hebraic and mystical notion of the orthodox Christian as one who believes in the right way - that is, believing in a loving, sacrificial and Christlike manner.»

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.»

Truth: There are a lot of people with orthodox and conservative beliefs and yes, Russia is one of the most heavily policed countries in the world.

A more practical way to promote change within the sustainability movement would be to a) create narratives that portray and encourage the desired ideas and actions as historical and current reality or as historical precedent in support of a nuanced evolution within the current orthodoxy, rather than to portray them as a significant change in belief or practice; b) to portray the desired ideas and actions as long - held beliefs and practices of the most widely - admired leaders of the orthodoxy and as actions and ideas typical of orthodox believers; or c) to shame believers into seeing the desired beliefs and actions as acceptable means of atonement for past sustainability sin or as new «stones» that can be thrown at non-believers.

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.