Sentences with phrase «particular doctrine»

The doctrine of Noahide law, in particular the doctrine of the universal prohibition of idolatry, gave Jewish thinkers the criterion they needed to judge the two religions among whose adherents they bad to live from late antiquity on: Christianity and Islam.

Martin begins with Rahner and in particular his doctrine of the «anonymous Christian» who, while with no explicit faith, «accepts himself completely» and finds salvation through that acceptance.

Take the two extremes confronting us at this moment, the Marxist and the Christian, each a convinced believer in his own particular doctrine, but each, we must suppose, fundamentally inspired with an equal faith in Man.

The Bible shows no concern when its writers were led to replace an earlier name or form of words by a new expression, and consequently it can not be said that either the Bible or Christian tradition has made one particular doctrine of God or one form of words sacrosanct.

The problem is to distinguish between what Christianity could be bent to say (that is, almost anything) and what its particular doctrines encouraged people to say.

just a thot... a little more on the serious side David... is this a comment on the particular doctrine?

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

He sees no reason why that particular doctrine could not have been formulated shortly after Religion in the Making, which anticipates it in a number of remarkable passages (e.g., RM 80, 87, 98, 154f, 157, 159).

During this past week, I asked God to grant me understanding of this particular doctrine and your carefully worded view matched what I sensed He was saying to me.

If we define religion narrowly to mean participation in a particular faith community or adherence to particular doctrines, the analysis of religious art will be restricted to the visual images produced by particular religious communities.

Any particular doctrine's views on the supernatural (Christianity of any sort, for instance,) is wholly unsupported by any factual evidence.

The truth of the matter is you have way to many people toting around copies of a particular doctrine without having a complete understanding of what it is they say their a believer of.

Those who are most strident in their insistence that Christians must assent to particular doctrines or behave within specific constraints are often not alert to the need to get coherence between core values and everyday life, with its various domains.

This particular doctrine does not tell us how the world actually came into being, but seeks rather to convey the implications of the fact that we stand as responsible beings before God.

The particular doctrines we must look at are the incarnation, the cross, the resurrection, and Christ's continuing presence as the Holy Spirit.

But then, in pivotal words, Paul VI gives the root reason for this teaching: «This particular doctrine... is based on the inseparable connection... between the unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act» (no. 12).

Both the CHA and WTS creeds have recently been reformulated with the express purpose of avoiding the characteristic expressions of the «evangelical» doctrine of Scripture, as well as the endless specification of particular doctrines.

The only question is, how far can any particular doctrine of atonement be squared with the character of God.

This particular doctrine has been interpreted many ways by many different theologians.

My mother had some of those same questions and concerns about that particular doctrine.»

I used to use study bibles more often but often found their explanations either lacking substance or suggesting a particular doctrine stronger than they should.

This appears to be at odds with Seeger above, because one is not required to prove that ones religion has a particular doctrine.

Under this particular doctrine, a landowner has a duty to keep their property free of dangers that are accessible and could cause harm to trespassing children.