Sentences with phrase «sort of doctrine»

that may well be within the normal variation of the «process,» it indicates that there is a sort of doctrine at work.

There is no «on atheism», as if there was some sort of doctrine that every atheist follows.

Not exact matches

Sadly, I took me 32 years to start really diving in and questioning the doctrines / dogmas I had «sort of» taken for granted.

It is your task to teach newcomers about Christian doctrine and Christian behavior and that sort of thing; it is our task to make sure that newcomers know about local traditions.

Whitehead's process doctrines allow us to sort out the phases of interaction constituting such development, and there is also a tradition of literary criticism devoted to the general forms of action, which I shall discuss below.

This sort of definition of faith is surely a caricature of any Christian position, but it is totally opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church:

The second sort of argument, designed to show that certain process doctrines are compatible with certain Biblical texts, was warranted by interpretations of certain Biblical texts that were hacked by exegetical studies.

There is a place for the greening of theology that is the correcting of long - held wrong doctrines, the call for changes in action, and reflection on all sorts of issues in light of the crisis we face.

One hears of «cultural Catholics,» those who have forsaken the doctrines of the faith but who nonetheless feel some sort of continuing tie, however tenuous, to Catholic identity.

When you subscribe to Humanism, Naturalism, Materialism, Realism, Activism, what have you, which all are doctrines, you are already an «active» believer of some sort, which defies the very concept of Atheism, which is «passive.»

One of the most interesting encounters of this sort happened one evening at a Mennonite church in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where Myron Augsburger and I debated the issues of just war doctrine and pacifism.

«Founded by atheism, claimed by atheism, supported by atheism, and exclusively in the interests of atheism, suppressing without mercy every jot of evidence for the divine existence, and so making a positive rational faith in God wholly impossible, the doctrine of evolution may well be set down as not only a foe to theism, but a foe of the most thoroughgoing sort.»

Some Further Reflections on the Origins of the Doctrine of the Trinity,» Coakley writes that «it is the perception of many Christians who pray either contemplatively or charismatically that the dialogue of prayer is strictly speaking not a simple communication between an individual and a distant and undifferentiated divine entity, but rather a movement of divine reflexivity, a sort of answering of God to God in and through one who prays.»

His doctrine of two separate substances, extended matter and thinking mind, each sort of substance requiring, with God bracketed out of the picture, nothing other than itself in order to exist, rather unceremoniously threw mind, that is, distinctively human being, out of nature and left philosophy with the hopeless task of trying to figure out how a mind outside of nature, a mind not of nature, could ever really come to know nature.

The fact that neither you nor the church has yet identified ANY SORT of «false doctrine» that Kate was supposedly teaching, leads one to believe that her question must be the REAL reason she was ex-communicated as no other viable reason has been presented or even hinted at!

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

This added subtlety lends itself to a sort of humility that is absent in the positivist doctrine and that may be more appealing to the bereaved.

Proposals to decentralize social welfare programs and give the states the funds necessary to conduct all sorts of customized efforts to empower the poor — crafted so that each «fits» the vast array of distinct circumstances we find in impoverished America — strike me as a sensible application of the social doctrine's principle of subsidiarity.

Originally known as the One Mind Temple, the church embraced all religions in worshiping Coltrane as a god, but in 1980 King took steps to sorting out the doctrine of the church by going to Chicago to study under Archbishop G.D. Hinkson of the African Orthodox Church, which is affiliated with the Eastern Catholic Church.

Freedom is the true pivot of the doctrine of the postulates; the other two are in some sort its complement or explication.

So they developed the doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture to prove that the Bible was a special sort of book which needed special attention and care, and to justify their decision to pull Scripture out of the hands of the people, thus making it available only to the «educated priestly class.»

Christian pacifists of all sorts never tire in telling us that Christians developed the just war doctrine because of their pacific tendencies.

If God wanted us to have a list of doctrines that we must believe, He gave us the wrong sort of book from which to get them.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

The inner truth of the doctrine He saw and lived made Jesus the sort of person He was.

The sort of person He was made Jesus brimful of the doctrine he taught.

It is ultimately dependent upon an analysis of the self as some sort of self - enclosed independently existing entity and produces precisely the difficulty for ethics that has been erroneously attributed to Whitehead, namely that his ethics would be a private - interest theory, at best.1 But Whitehead clearly repudiates the contributing analysis of the self, which would be «no more original than a stone» (PR 159), and repudiates its consequences for ethics: «The doctrine of minds, as independent substances, leads directly not merely to private worlds of experience, but also to private worlds of morals.

There was no possibility of repentance after death; as we must note, there was either the definite sending to eternal damnation of the evil man or the preparation of the good man for a final heavenly state (in circles that did not accept some doctrine of an «intermediate state», there was instead a sort of «waiting» until the final consummation)-- but the moment of death, with its judgement of this and that individual, was absolutely final in its determination of the direction that was thereafter to be taken.

In contrast to the doctrine, ascribed to Whitehead by Leclerc, that «the truly active entities must be identified with the ultimate constituents, those which are not themselves composite» (MN 104), Buchler teaches that there is no level of complexity which has any sort of priority, that any one sort of aggregate is, ontologically, just as good as any other sort.

But this view conflicts with a later statement (1902): «Synechism is not an ultimate and absolute metaphysical doctrine; it is a regulative principle of logic, prescribing what sort of hypothesis is fit to be entertained and examined» (6.173).

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.

To be fair... this sort of dialogue leads to two possible outcomes: 1) all doctrine is false, 2) theRoman Catholic is the one true Church.

When people expect to get history, science, doctrine, and ethics out of the Bible, but end up with nothing of the sort, or what they do get does not agree with science, history, or the doctrine of others, they either reject the whole thing as fiction, or they blindly believe and obey what they read, because they don't know what else to do with the text.

In an argument which was becoming public, he was being offered a virtually magical doctrine, a sort of droit de papaute extending autocratically into life after death, and all of it backed with the threat of public violence, the violence of death by fire.

Bring the Fairness Doctrine back, something the new Democratic majority needs to be working on right now, to end this sort of dangerous nonsense.»

To the stunned Soviets, who did not yet have the effective capacity to launch any sort of surprise attack on the United States (as Dulles well knew), the massive retaliation doctrine was perceived as little more than a massive intimidation tactic.

A third - person shooter that feels caught between doctrines — it's not tactical enough to feel like a deep, strategic experience yet it punishes run - and - gun tactics just enough to prevent fans of those sorts of games from having a great time, either.

Her three books form of sort of trilogy: «No Logo» dealt with branding, «The Shock Doctrine» with economics, and now «This Changes Everything» is her take on climate change.

The relatively recent history of the public trust doctrine in US law is likely to interest those who like this sort of thing: «oogle it.

4 The «double exequatur» doctrine requires two sorts of judicial reviews: the first one, by the country that issues the award; the second one, by the country where the award is enforced.

Although the trajectory of this doctrine seems to be shifting, it is still a valid and upheld law in New Mexico, and as a result it is important that you have an attorney represent you in these sorts of cases.

Rather, as the Supreme Court has explained in a series of decisions over the past decade, the rule in patent cases should be the same as in any other sort of litigation — in this case, the equitable doctrine of laches may not be used by accused infringers as a defense because there is a statute of limitations present to limit claims.

These bodies of information become more and more electronically available and contain all sorts of legal sources: legislation, cases and legal doctrine.