Consequently, the unity of the Bible is not found in a comprehensive
system of doctrine of theology.
Not exact matches
A combination
of bad economic news from Germany, hawkish comments from key Federal Reserve committee members that appeared to contravene Janet Yellen's
doctrine, and the continued bullish endeavours
of the markets ensured that the dollar started this week in a very similar position to last, as demonstrated by the chart (from IG's global forex trading
system) that shows AUD, GBP and EUR retracing gains made on Wednesday October 8 by Sunday 12..
To prosecute would be to disrupt the financial
system — and it is Fed
doctrine that the economy can not survive without a financial
system enabled to «earn its way out
of debt» by raking off the needed wealth from the rest
of the economy?
For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made
doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief
system instead
of the pure word.
Doctrine Over Person is taking many
of the experiences you've had and either denying they ever existed or suppressing / avoiding them in order to perpetuate the belief
system of the cult.
If we understood it as a constant evolving and adapting entity instead
of thinking that our
doctrines and
systems are perfectly suited, then maybe we wouldn't be having this conversation.
the negation
of ideology, the political secularization
of the
doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product
of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking
of the mysteries
of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not
of the confusions
of modern society, no framework
of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article
of faith, a distrust
of the
systems and processes
of the idol
of self and
of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches
of ideology and meta - narrative.
The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for...
doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «
doctrine... is a closed
system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body
of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»
The truth is that the greatest enemies to the
doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors
of them, who have perverted them for the structure
of a
system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words.
They exist to teach a certain set
of doctrines / beliefs to people who want to be indoctrinated in that
system, which will convince certain types
of churches that they are «experts» in
doctrine and perhaps Bible and therefore should make a valued employee who will perpetuate the beliefs
of the group.
2) Everyone who observes Calvinists, will eventually comment on the irony,
of a belief
system which deploys benevolent advertising language, e.g.,
doctrines of «grace».
a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity
of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional
doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a
system of religious beliefs
I also recommend the Catholic
system for those that need a very tight book
of Doctrine (Catechism).
Their belief in God and Bible is cradled in their
system of absolute certainty that allows no deviation from an absolute standard
of doctrine which is presumably based on a singular understanding
of the Bible.
Such courses provide one
of the best ways
of introducing Christianity — better than presenting it as an abstract
system of doctrines.
What I can tell about our shared experience with Mormon
doctrine is this: Yes, there was a big emphasis on Jesus» ours being a more conventional, fairly trinitarian concept
of our Lord» but, as strong as that emphasis was, it never managed to trump the implied and de facto role
of Joseph Smith in our belief
system.
Bultmann called into question not only what could be said about the Trinity, but developed an entire
system in which history's effects on
doctrine must be overcome so that the Christian message might be meaningful for the concrete individual
of the historical present.
(Jeremiah 7:22) Clearly, then, one prophetic
doctrine taught that the entire
system of animal offerings was a late accretion, beginning not with Yahweh's original law but in the degenerate influences
of Canaanitish baals.
In the past the Church has appeared to many Catholics as an absolutely monolithic structure, a
system of doctrine and life which had to be either accepted or rejected as a whole, without degrees or nuances
of importance in its various components.
One
of the creative process philosophers, Charles Hartshorne, states in the beginning
of Man's Vision
of God his conviction that «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that
of such
systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new) is implicit in the religious faith most briefly expressed in the three words, God is love».1 If this be true what is needed is not the discarding
of metaphysics but the exploration
of this new possibility in the
doctrine of God's being.
A
system of thought originating among British Congregationalists in the early eighteenth century, hyper «Calvinism promoted the
doctrine of eternal justification.
According to the
doctrine of relativity which is the basis
of the metaphysical
system of the present lectures, both these notions involve a misconception.
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.
Accordingly, when Whitehead says that the relativity principle is the basic
doctrine on which his metaphysical
system is founded, I take him to mean that it is the most basic principle for the elucidation
of the Category
of the Ultimate, or, equivalently,
of the thesis
of solidarity.
Tietjen quotes longtime Concordia professor Arthur Repp's observation that «the Preus people... think we have to have a
system of doctrine that spells out everything in detail to nail down what the Bible teaches.
So several
of these leaders developed an approved set
of doctrines and teachings which should be taught to all the new «converts» in all the churches, and quickly developed a
system to train and send out a small army
of teachers and priests to distribute these empire - approved church
doctrines.
As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception
of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer against the inroads
of the elective
system with its attendant
doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»
(p. 591) But his most serious charge is that the consequence
of Whitehead's adherence to these two positions is a deep - seated arbitrariness in his
system, that some
of the characteristic features
of his
doctrine are without adequate foundation, that his insistence on them must in the end be convicted
of gratuitousness.
The trinity is a false
doctrine invented by the «church / government» at the council
of Nicea in 325 AD so that the pagans would feel more comfortable allowing the church into their
system.
Of the Bible she wrote, «I regard these writings as histories consisting of mingled truth and fiction, and while I admire and cherish much of what I believe to have been the moral teaching of Jesus himself, I consider the system of doctrines built upon the facts of his life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in its influence on individual and social happiness.&raqu
Of the Bible she wrote, «I regard these writings as histories consisting
of mingled truth and fiction, and while I admire and cherish much of what I believe to have been the moral teaching of Jesus himself, I consider the system of doctrines built upon the facts of his life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in its influence on individual and social happiness.&raqu
of mingled truth and fiction, and while I admire and cherish much
of what I believe to have been the moral teaching of Jesus himself, I consider the system of doctrines built upon the facts of his life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in its influence on individual and social happiness.&raqu
of what I believe to have been the moral teaching
of Jesus himself, I consider the system of doctrines built upon the facts of his life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in its influence on individual and social happiness.&raqu
of Jesus himself, I consider the
system of doctrines built upon the facts of his life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in its influence on individual and social happiness.&raqu
of doctrines built upon the facts
of his life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in its influence on individual and social happiness.&raqu
of his life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in its influence on individual and social happiness.»
According to Sherburne the «most reasonable reading
of Whitehead's
system» (PS 1:105) requires that God be the ground
of the givenness
of the past and Whitehead implies this
doctrine.
All religions - that is, belief
systems delineated by scriptures,
doctrines or dogmas that posit some form
of deity or deities - are the work
of man and all are equally absurd.
A set
of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis
of a political, economic, or other
system.
Let it not be said that thus we found the whole Christian
system upon the
doctrine of plenary inspiration.
Religion permeates our culture, shows up on our doorsteps with literature, scriptures and threats
of eternal d.a.m.nation, influences our science books, contaminates our political
systems, indoctrinates our children and postulates that its
doctrine must be followed, lest we be destroyed in body, in soul, or both.
Toward my belief
system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism
of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the
doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more
of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...
As far as I know, this last is not an explicit
doctrine in Whitehead's
system, but it seems to be a possible implication
of the theory
of «objective immortality.»
Toward my belief
system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism
of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the
doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more
of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...
But does Whitehead's metaphysical
system permit him to include the
doctrine of the experience
of individuality?
Atheism stands by itself and is separate, it is not a
system or
doctrine of beliefs, it is a non-belief.
To put this another way: Taylor's «suspicion»
of doctrine or, more generally,
of speculative philosophical
systems is not about the inability
of language to express the truth
of life.
For example, it argued that liberalism, contrary to its critics, is not a
system of doctrines but simply a method
of inquiry — a free method unbound by orthodoxy's rigid and authoritarian norms.
Earlier, in The Structure
of Christian Existence, he had also developed a
system that can yet prove helpful in reconsidering the
doctrine of original sin.
His
system finds its beginning in the
doctrine of man, and other
doctrines are dealt with by indirection.
«How can anyone pay any attention to a
doctrine that grew out
of a Greek conceptual
system being imposed on Jewish Scriptures, that was as foreign to Jesus as it is to us, that depends on concepts and a common sense that have gone the way
of the Roman Empire, and that is about as understandable as if it were still written in ancient Greek?»
«The teachings
of the Council do not constitute a complete, organic
system of Catholic
doctrine.
This shadow government, sanctioned and shielded by the Reagan Administration, has violated the separation
of powers
doctrine that is the bedrock
of our constitutional
system.
«1 With the broad perspective
of one gifted with metaphysical genius, he affirms that an adequate philosophy
of religion can only be developed within the framework
of a comprehensive general philosophy; but the elaboration
of his
system makes clear that the
doctrine of God is not just one facet but, as with Aristotle, the very zenith
of his cosmology.
From Webster:
Doctrine: a principle or position or the body
of principles in a branch
of knowledge or
system of belief.
But as soon as you tell me I am wrong aren't you telling me my «
doctrine» or
system of belief is wrong.