Sentences with phrase «point of religious doctrine»

But if both proudly refer to themselves as the Lord's chosen, they diverge on one especially inflammatory point of religious doctrine: unlike their present - day Mormon compatriots, Mormon Fundamentalists passionately believe that Saints have a divine obligation to take multiple wives.

At first sight, it seems perfectly sensible that the English courts stay as far away as possible from deciding points of religious doctrine.

Not exact matches

While it is impossible in a scientific age to consider any literal acceptance of the doctrine of resurrection, it does point even better than the doctrine of immortality to some of the fundamentals of religious experience mentioned above.

I am quite sure that they are wrong, but my point here is that Whitehead's lack of appreciation of the religious importance of the no - self doctrine leads some of his readers to think they can follow him in general without appropriating this doctrine.

Anyway from Wiki A fourth point of conflict, specifically religious, involved different interpretations of the Torah and how to apply it to current Jewish life, with the Sadducees recognizing only the Written Torah and rejecting doctrines such as the Oral Torah and the Resurrection of the Dead.

In complex religions, a great number of doctrines, religious practices and symbols are thought to point to the transcendent vision.

There it was pointed out that a doctrine of divine creation is a religious interpretation of the experience of change.

So if there is something unsurpassable about him for believers, it is ultimately derived from the mystery that he sacramentally mediates - Whenever a religion speaks of the «unsurpassability» of its central revelatory event, personality, or doctrine, religious wisdom exhorts us to acknowledge that only the unfathomable mystery to which these realities point is indeed unsurpassable.

Atheists are here to make their point known that the relious do not control society nor allow religious doctrine to make the laws of the land.

Frankfort also is conscious that he is innovating, and he states the point almost in the terms of my present argument: «Erman... gave... a masterly but patronizing account of weird myth, doctrines, and usages, while the peculiarly religious values which these contained remained hidden from his lucid rationalism....

One of the constant underlying threads in the book was the desperate need the characters feel to adhere to a lengthy and demanding list of rules spelled out in their religious doctrine to the point that the tenets of their faith interfere with their ability to live.

* S: (n) analogy (an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others) * S: (n) analogy (drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect) «the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain»; «the models show by analogy how matter is built up» * S: (n) doctrine of analogy, analogy (the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate)»

Such government services are also in accordance with provincial and federal human rights doctrines that call for the accommodation of religious beliefs and practices to the point of undue hardship.