Sentences with phrase «philosophical doctrine»

She makes no appeal to philosophical doctrine as an external authority.

Hence, in an important sense the Thomist philosophical doctrine of God is Christian.

but the emphasis is more on reciprocity and less on the dependence of religious knowledge on prior philosophical doctrine.

If not, then the assertion that there are important tensions between some of the approved philosophical doctrines of Thomism and the Bible is unsubstantiated.

Christian thought need never be subservient to or identified with some particular philosophical doctrine or system.

This truth that we are body and soul, that as matter we are controlled and directed but as mind we control and direct is not some esoteric philosophical doctrine; it is embedded in every decision we make.

Therefore, we need not feel threatened by reductionist accounts of the human person nor by the paradoxes of identity and memory that dog philosophical doctrines of immortality.

«Einstein's ideas,» his friend the physicist Max Born wrote over half a century ago, «have given the physical sciences the impetus which has liberated them from outdated philosophical doctrine, and made them one of the decisive factors in the modern world of man.»

In my view, there remains a question mark activist ideologues do not want to answer properly on the situation that has justified the ideological and philosophical doctrine of environmentalism.

Here is the essence of his philosophical doctrine of God.

His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

The study of the history of thought suggests that there is a plurality of philosophical doctrines, each of which can attain a high degree of excellence by all the norms on which they agree in common.

However, there can be no question that the theological doctrine of God's impassibility is compatible with, and indeed demanded by, the philosophical doctrine.

The philosophical doctrines traditionally accepted by the church on the basis of the authority of philosophical reason have, in fact, been in serious tension with the ways of thinking about God that grew out of the Old and New Testaments and the liturgy of the church.

Our question is, instead, whether the theological affirmations made by the Thomist are intelligible within the context of his philosophical doctrines.

More specifically, since it is the personal characteristics rather than the immutability that are held to be analogical, we must declare that Thomists have not yet shown us that, given their philosophical doctrine of God, the attribution of personal characteristics to him is not pure equivocation.

Therefore, the philosophical doctrine of God as Being is demanded by revelation.

Hartshorne remarks that while «many theological and philosophical doctrines» of the traditional kind have asserted that «being divine means precisely, and above all, being wholly immune to suffering in any and every sense», yet in his judgement the insight of faith in Jesus as the Christ would rather point logically to the truth that «there must be suffering in God».

For it fails to acknowledge and accommodate the fundamental differences in philosophical teaching between a philosophical doctrine or position on the one hand, and the philosophical approach or tendency on the other.

The topic that will now occupy our attention is «process philosophy,» the philosophical doctrine, dating back to Heraclitus, that sees processes as central in the ontological scheme of things.

Wyschogrod argues that Judaism concerns not a philosophical doctrine but rather God's unique and preferential love for the flesh - and - blood descendants of Abraham.

The positivists espoused the philosophical doctrine that sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought.

My attempt has been to make the philosophical doctrines conform more fully to the philosophical norms, especially to Whitehead's own norm of coherence.

«Two factions oppose each other over a vaguely conceived cause, such as a religious teaching, a social value, a moral code of conduct, a philosophical doctrine or a material interest.

ɪ l ɪ z əm /; from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the lack of

Tolstoy's philosophical doctrine of non-violence, had a profound influence on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King encouraging pacifism as a political tool for social change.

There should have a more meaningful discussion on the genuine need to challenge the ideological and philosophical doctrine of environmentalism and the real need to tackle social and economic development issues to ensure that tried and tested old values and customs are adaptable to the modern times around the globe.