Sentences with phrase «think about the doctrine»

At the very least, it is helpful for Catholics — and others — who puzzle over some of the pope's pronouncements to get this window into his thinking about doctrine.

Of course a future researcher might find in the papers of some friend of Whitehead's a reference to what he thought about the doctrine of papal infallibility, which Newman was reluctant to accept, and which Mrs. Whitehead later said was the great obstacle.

Not exact matches

Until the churches of this world, Catholic included, actually start caring about people and not doctrine they will constantly face this push back from people who can think and reason.

At this level you not only are able to critique the texts and doctrines and their relationship to one another, but you are able to make judgments about the whole thought system and belief system altogether.

Over the years my thinking about the ascension and doctrine in general has changed in several ways.

We are not just talking about a convergence of disciplines, but of an authentically global synthesis in which the various forms of knowledge... find common ground in a shared personal and social vision... We must not imagine that the socio - cultural challenge of today can be met with theological thought that specialises in the content of doctrine or concentrates on religious experience.

In examining each of these issues (and more) Wittmer steers a path between the extremes of both sides, as he puts it «conservatives fear that postmoderns don't care enough about doctrine, and postmoderns think that conservatives don't care enough about people.

All I was trying to do in this post was spark some thinking and dialogue about a few doctrines that I thought warranted some further research and study.

Until then, what are your thoughts on any of the seven doctrines above which I had questions about?

For the first time Thomas began to feel some positive excitement about this different way of thinking of Christian doctrine.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

and he argues that the doctrines about him «name a mystery which is felt rather than thought; and people may very well feel differently about different ways of phrasing the mystery».

It is akin to the silence in the Church concerning the Nicene Creed for about 20 years or so after its formulation in 325: there were many bishops and clergy in the East who did not accept homoousios and who thought that silence, obfuscations and subsequent formulations of the creed would sweep away this inconvenient and troublesome doctrine.

Nygren gives an important suggestion about the history of doctrine when he says that the Church Fathers were saved from falling completely into a Greek pattern of thought by the three biblical assertions of Creation, Incarnation, and Resurrection.32 But rather than conclude, as Nygren does, that these themes require us to reject all metaphysics, why not say that they require us to reconsider our metaphysics?

He believed that his doctrine of original sin was but a commentary on Paul's thought, such as in Romans 1:24 - 25: «Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.»

Like a spiritual corpse, he is unable to make a single move toward God, think a right thought about God, or even respond to God — unless God first brings this spiritually dead corpse to life (Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 74).

Not in that you are saying that any doctrine about a real presence of Jesus in Communion is wrong, but in the line «To think and believe otherwise is silly and a horrible deception of the truth.»

I think the average atheist knows more about religious doctrine than he does about scientific matters.

Seminary, then, is a learning laboratory in which Christians can learn to think about the logical implications of Christian doctrine.

Until now you have not given much thought to this strange doctrine, but, if you are going to be a Christian, you think you ought to know something about what the Trinity means.

Ejiofor agrees that the film isn't about arguing about doctrine; it's about connecting with people who think differently.

Whatever one thinks of Jesus, it is impossible to be neutral about her place in Christian doctrine and devotion.

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

Sorry, but that kind of doctrine, and the threat of eternal torture is why many are leaving, and many others are just thinking critically about their beliefs, and finding that it is illogical, immoral, divisive, and incapable of presenting anything resembling evidence to it's own «thruthfullness».

That doesn't mean I think they're right about everything or that our differences of doctrine and practice don't matter.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Consider this one: Christians might think that the dynamics of grace and faith in human salvation could only be worked out in Christianity — until they learn, for example, about the intricate, debates between the «cat doctrine» and the «monkey doctrine» in Bhakti Hinduism.

There's no application of Catholic social doctrine to help us think in a disciplined way about how to respond to environmental threats, or how to reform global capitalism.

We can and should debate theology and doctrine, but we must never think that we are the infallible interpreters of Scripture and determiners of people's destiny, and should also remember that doctrine, as important as it is, becomes evil when debates and discussions about theology keep us from living out the loving gospel in tangible ways to a hurting and dying world.

It's wrong to imagine this body of doctrine to be a complete system like Thomism, but it did provide a stable, coherent basis for thinking about the social question.

Heck, I was thinking the same thing about the atheists that have their own self made doctrine of love and tolerance.

Only when the minister gets very «radical» about either doctrine or social issues does serious protest arise, and even then there is a tendency to let the minister think his own peculiar ideas so long as not many people are influenced by him.

An ecological doctrine of creativity implies a new kind of thinking about God.

Fishon... I think you may have misunderstood my last comment, but upon reading it myself, I'm less clear than I thot.Nevertheless, I agree with you and that was my point, most believers that I know or read about have their initial conversion experience long before they adopt developed doctrines of scripture.

Theology is neither an academic discipline nor a set of doctrines for Cobb, but a thinking about anything and everything from a Christian perspective.

If it is considered «liberal» to think about your faith and arrive at your own conclusions and not just follow the crowd or a «doctrine» because the pastor says so?

We begin rather with a critique of one aspect of St. Augustine's thought, his doctrine of God's being, for it is here, I shall argue, that some difficulties appear which have led to confusion in Christian thought about love.

He wants Christians to move on from milk doctrines and teachings that make us feel warm and fuzzy, to the meat truths of the Word that we mull over, think about, and digest (cf. Heb 5:11 — 6:3).

I think that the thing which troubles me most about doctrines like this one is not the doctrine itself.

Well, I am not sure what one doctrine about Mary you are thinking of, since there are many.

Luther thought of these subjective followers of the Spirit as fluttering about without purpose, «blown about by every wind of doctrine» as St Paul put it.

However, if this fine young woman starts getting lighter, I may change my thoughts about Mormon «doctrine».

I claim no infallible wisdom in my choice of doctrines or arguments, but I use rigorous logic in showing that certain ways of classifying possible ways of thinking positively or negatively about God do exhaust the possibilities.

Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «Life Questions.»

Second, there are books explaining the actual doctrine, helping us to think and speak about it as best we can, which inevitably provide some guidelines for how to imagine it.

Also, I think that we should be very cautious about trying to draw up a new doctrine, because it seems to me that as soon as a new doctrine is established, a case comes up that flies completely in its face, but I do hope that other members of the Security Council will see that there has been success in removing a dictator, and in giving that country a chance of peaceful and democratic progress, which will be good for the world.

She prefers telling stories to thinking about theological concepts such as predestination, the trademark doctrine of Presbyterianism.

Although Descartes thought that his philosophical and scientific doctrines subverted Aristotelianism and scholasticism, he was at heart a scholastic or Aristotelian because he drew from his own mind propositions about the nature of being and reality.

«If we think about the Wal - Mart model, it is incredibly fuel - intensive at every stage, and at every one of those stages we are now seeing an inflation of the costs for boats, trucks, cars,» said Naomi Klein, the author of «The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.»

Ian: We're fans of Naomi Klein's work (see a recent post on our blog the Thought Kitchen about her latest groundbreaking book The Shock Doctrine).