Sentences with phrase «provided by the doctrine»

Without the control provided by the doctrine of creation, they devalued human experience, dismissing it as having no positive religious value.

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«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was asked by the Pope to provide an analysis and commentary on this for the faithful.

All of these gods that man has created provide no one with any measure of completeness by obedience to the doctrine that they present.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

We can say that Whitehead sees his interpretation of the doctrine of God's being within the pattern of St. Augustine's «faith seeking understanding», provided by faith we do not understand the acceptance of dogma; but the religious intuition born out of the impact of Jesus upon the world.

Much of what the west has long taken for granted is now disappearing: the security provided by Christendom; the Christian way of interpreting reality; the confidence that the Christian path leads to eternal salvation; and the belief that Christian doctrine embodies the essential and unchangeable truths by which to live.

Perhaps the clarification Neuhaus needs is provided by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in its declaration, Dominus Iesus (2000): «The lack of unity among Christians is certainly a wound for the Church; not in the sense that she is deprived of her unity, but «in that it hinders the complete fulfillment of her universality in history.

People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and institutions are less and less influenced by religious doctrine.

It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»

It has been suggested by some scientists and theologians that this provides a confirmation of the religious doctrine of creation.

Over the next several posts, I want to explain the history of the doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture, the passages that are used to defend it, and provide a slightly modified and nuanced approach to the process by which I think God might have superintended the writing of Scripture.

To remain religious you need to discount the plainly visible as a lie in favor of what's written in some doctrine (provided to you by a human).

Yet it should not be so difficult to understand, nor to perceive the light that this throws upon the nature of belief, provided one has escaped being altogether confused by the Hegelian doctrine of a universal doubt, against which it is certainly not necessary to preach.

It provides what Mill's doctrine of different qualities of pleasure requires, namely, a broader conceptual framework for evaluating experience than that proposed by Bentham, and, I believe, a more attractive criterion than the experienced judges» test.

The quotations which Bunson provides also justify a confidence that the Pope is open to the sort of development of doctrine outlined by Cardinal Newman, as we noted at the beginning.

The interpretive key that may provide the most utility here is that Church doctrine proceeds by way of the principle of organic development.

«It becomes patently illegal and unconstitutional for Magu to continue to be brazenly retained in office, in spite of the hallowed doctrine of separation of powers and of checks and balances provided for in sections 4,5,6 of the 1999 Constitution and as ably espoused by Baron Dr. Montesquieu in 1748».

Under the doctrine, which holds that principals are most able to identify and provide what their schools need if they are not micromanaged by supervisors who do not work there, the city released principals from some mandates in exchange for greater accountability for student performance.

When asked about Natural Doctrine's campaign, the NIS America team assured us that the plotline would provide a substantial impetus without being burdened by irrelevant character conversation.

The spread of Wahhabi doctrine - fanatically hostile to Shi'ite and Suffi Muslims, Jews, Christians, women, modernity, and much else - plays a major role with respect to Islamist terrorist groups: a role similar to that played by angry German nationalism with respect to Nazism in the decades after World War I. Not all angry German nationalists became Nazis and not all those schooled in Wahhabi beliefs become terrorists, but in each case the broader doctrine of hatred has provided the soil in which the particular totalitarian movement has grown.

I believe that thanks to the national constitutional doctrines on the «conditional» primacy of EU law (on the «conditional supremacy» of EU law in the UK, see the post by Garner on this blog) as well as to the corresponding EU provisions — the constitutional identity clause in Article 4 (2) TEU and the authorisation to apply higher national standards of fundamental rights in Article 53 CFR — national constitutional or apex courts can provide necessary checks and balances on the ECJ enormous judicial power.

Its shift in doctrine is construed as a reinterpretation of Article 24 (2) of the Constitution, resulting from the interpretive guidance provided by international treaties and case law.

[59] The Act also replaces the criminal «continuing offence» doctrine by providing that each day on which a violation is continued constitutes a separate violation.

However, the exceptions to state immunity have grown over time, so that the modern doctrine provides for several other exceptions besides waiver by the foreign state.

According to the AG, supported by a (similar) decision of the Commission concerning Deutsche Post and doctrine, average variable costs is not the appropriate parameter to use for such undertakings, since (a part of) the average variable costs relate to their network and exist regardless of whether direct mail services are provided or not; in other words the costs are common to, in this case, the distribution of direct mail and «normal» mail falling under the universal postal service.

By establishing the three step process instead of continuing to rely on the doctrine of fundamental breach, the Court has clarified the law and provided additional certainty for contractors and owners as well as those of us tasked with preparing exclusion clauses.

Under the presumption of negligence doctrine, if a defendant, the rear driver, wants to rebut the presumption of negligence he or she has the responsibility of (1) providing evidence that contradicts the plaintiff's version of the accident, or (2) give evidence that excuses what happened by explaining how he or she could not avoid the crash.

Under the public - rights doctrine, patent rights are governed by statute and subject to statutory schemes providing for regulation by an administrative agency.

Most assuredly, Dunsmuir made a herculean effort to simplify the doctrine of administrative deference by providing a two - step framework for identifying the proper review standard and by reducing the number of deferential standards to a single standard of «reasonableness.»

Other states and countries have adopted the doctrine of comparative fault, which «compares» the legal responsibility of the victim and the other parties, and provides compensation to the victim in direct proportion to the comparative responsibility of the parties (i.e., if the dog owner is 90 % responsible and the victim is only 10 % responsible, then the victim's compensation is reduced by his or her 10 % of fault).

Champerty and maintenance They are ancient doctrines in common law jurisdictions forbidding an agreement in which a person with no previous interest in a lawsuit helps maintain it, mostly by providing financing, (maintenance) with a view to sharing the damages if the suit succeeds (champerty).

Quebec's Centre d'accès a l'information juridique (CAIJ) and its JurisBistro, with a website available in both French and English, provides access to a surprisingly wide range of professional, full - text legal commentary (doctrine, in French), as well as annotated legislation (including an annotated Civil Code) and an extremely useful list of Research Questions, arranged topically by field of law, with links to legislative and interpretive sources available on the site.

In Canada the creative tension between the rule of law and democracy — constitutional principles recognised by the Supreme Court of Canada [1]-- provides a crucible in which judicial review doctrine is formed.

It is fairly evident that the Committee tried to instrumentalize its FR in order to provide the other constitutional authorities (the Government and — most certainly — the Judiciary) with somewhat of a saving (or escaping) clause in order to overcome the stagnation caused by the Margellos doctrine and the ICJ's authoritative distinction between procedural conditions, such as the jurisdictional immunity of the defendant State, and the merits of the case, even if the contested affair involves grave violations of jus cogens norms.

For these reasons, there may be arguments - grounded in reasoning provided by First Amendment doctrine - for finding some youth sexts exchanged between persons who are of the age of consent to be legally - protected speech.

They fought hard for our land rights; to overturn the doctrine of terra nullius; and to have our traditional laws and customs formally acknowledged by a legal system that is not designed to provide for the rights and interests of the original owners of this land.

There is the doctrine of economic harm that may be caused to an institution where a licensee exploits the information provided to it by the institution so as to directly compete with the licensor.

In order to avoid these doctrines, the Broker argued that the payments were not an illegal fee - splitting arrangement because no real estate brokerage services were provided by the Broker or the Bank.

The «reasonable expectations» doctrine applies when a consumer is given an expectation by an agent of the insurance company that coverage would be provided under certain circumstances.

The «efficient proximate cause» doctrine, which has been adopted in some states but not Arizona, provides that coverage exists when an insured suffers a loss from an event which was «proximately» caused by a covered event, even if the loss would otherwise be excluded from policy coverage.