Sentences with phrase «practice than the doctrine»

Since God, on this view, is contemporary with every finite actual entity, being neither in the past nor in the future of any other actual entity, God, on the principle in question, would be able neither to prehend nor to he prehended by any other actual entity, a conclusion more radically at variance with religious experience and practice than the doctrine Whitehead was invoked to repair.

Not exact matches

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

But again it doesn't really matter as celibacy is a practice, more than a doctrine.

He must learn more than ever before to bear his own responsibility within the concrete Church and not in a basic, though secret opposition to her, and to cope also with the historical conditions of her doctrine and practice in freely given obedience.

They are opposed to the use of force, and although they are a bridge between Wahhabi and Sufi practices, they follow orthodox Sunni doctrines, rather than the usual Sufi teachings, and accept the school of Malik in the particular requirements of religion.

Christians have failed to do their christian duty because they entertain themself with «doctrine» rather than actual practice.

Even though specific Christian beliefs were unknown in Athens, Christian thinkers used resources which were far less internally consistent than process thought to express religious meanings, defend practices, doctrines, and so forth.

That attitude fits with the message we are receiving more and more that «feeling» something somehow is more pure and perhaps, more «true» than having to fit in with the doctrine, practices, rules and observations of a formal institution that are handed down to us.

It is a judgment upon the Church and its ministry if, with our belief in God's grace, we repeat the great symbols and doctrines of atonement but actually practice less of a costing identification with the sufferings of men and women than do those who counsel with them under secular auspices.

When the Bible speaks of «the faith» it is speaking of the doctrines and practices which separate followers of Jesus from those who follow something or someone other than Jesus.

And using terminology like «morons» says far more about the attitude of the writer than about any of the specious practices and doctrines being addressed.

The Western Protestant experience, which included church splits and the formation of new denominations on the basis of national, ethnic and class differences — as well as differences of doctrine, sacramental practice and biblical interpretation — had been exported to the mission fields, where many of these differences seemed to be of even less enduring significance than they were at home.

So the only way that Loyola would teach it or any other religious faiths other than its own would be to present the practices and doctrines of that religious group in a way that's totally respectful.»

This practice was called the tender years doctrine because it theorized that young children, or children of tender years, needed their mother's care and nurturing more than their father's influence.

«For more than 100 years, women were not consulted in formulating doctrine, practice or policy.