Sentences with phrase «sacred doctrine»

At times, a reactionary, legislative, and disciplinary form of Thomism was deployed, directed inward at members of the Church, chiefly about uses of philosophy in the study of sacred doctrine.

Russell Hittinger has brought out further complexities of Thomistic developments in the wake of Aeterni Paths: «Thomists developed rather freewheeling accounts of the political, economic, legal and social order -LSB-... putting] Thomism in an offensive mode as far as social doctrine went -LSB-... whereas] in matters related to sacred doctrine [philosophical] Thomism would be put into a defensive role» such that scholasticism could not be publicly challenged within the Church.

Still, the disciplinary form of Thomism may have created more problems than it solved, even when properly applied to matters of sacred doctrine.

Among some groups, this is sacred doctrine that they have invested a lot of money into — it has to be biblicaly correct or their faith starts to wobble.

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

Still, in many ways, Pius was forced by events to make this inward turn and take up the set of issues that stood close to sacred doctrine.

Nichols explains Gilson's insight: «As with the two natures of the Word Incarnate according to the Christology of Chalcedon, two wisdoms» sacred doctrine and the philosophy of being» collaborate intimately but without confusion.»

State officials should not appeal to the authority of sacred doctrines or to personal revelation to justify the legal coercion of all citizens.

Far from being the only choice available to the typical adventurous traveller, it is a sacred doctrine for many: to get the most out of what they have.