Sentences with phrase «theological development of doctrine»

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The trinity was a theological development from a series of councils in the first 400 years or so of Church development of doctrine.

, we wrote: «Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith movement carried the flag in the UK for [orthodox] doctrinal catechesis... made [even less fashionable] by our calls for a real development of doctrine and theological expression... There are now many voices championing orthodoxy... [which] are greatly to be welcomed.»

Doctrinal orthodoxy and loyalty to the Magisterium were not fashionable causes, and they were made less so by our calls for a real development of doctrine and a theological expression of Catholicism to revindicate orthodoxy in the age of science.

For this reason alone, I regard John Henry Newman's The Development of Christian Doctrine as the most important of all modern Catholic theological works, or at least, the most significant until Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man.

Such a history does not only exist because a very great deal of time and theological development and clarification was needed in some cases before the Church's awareness of its belief had finally fought its way to a clear realization that such and such a definite doctrine of the Church is really contained in divine revelation, is a genuine expression of what has always been globally believed or an obligatory defence against heretical misinterpretation of what has been handed down.

The disputes centering around such passages had a far - reaching effect on the course of the development of many theological doctrines which occupied the minds of Muslims for generations.

Thus did Vatican II vindicate Newman's great work on the development of doctrine, which grew from a theological method that brought history, and indeed life itself, back into play as sources of reflection and growth in our understanding of God's revelation.

Enns does not know this Tradition and, although he recognises a kind of «development of doctrine» within the Bible itself, he does not have the theological tools to set his own thinking in dialogue with the living theology of the Church.

If, as a body, they assume the intrinsic goodness of religious freedom and the intrinsic evil of slavery, perhaps that is because the development of Christian doctrine has rightly tended in that direction — and thus steered between dangers that are theological as well as political.