Sentences with phrase «traditional doctrines of»

Because of her understanding of the nature of man and his mortality, she saw no hope in any of the traditional doctrines of life after death.

The associated traditional doctrines of «the Fall» and «Original Sin», with all their historical absurdity and however much we may wish to put in their place some better way of stating what they affirm, tell the truth about man.

This theme, to be sure, is not altogether absent from the traditional doctrines of the imago dei.

A viable interpretation of the meaning of the Incarnation requires a focus on love as the center of the gospel, and involves a reinterpretation of traditional doctrines of Christology, election, prevenient grace, Jesus» suffering and resurrection, and the image of God.

The traditional doctrines of atonement have all been founded upon something less than a fully personal analysis of the meaning of forgiveness.

The traditional doctrines of atonement understand Jesus» suffering as penal or sacrificial.

We have seen how the traditional doctrines of atonement tend to resist this conclusion.

It became clear that not only the traditional doctrines of Christology, but the whole context in which the discussion was couched was problematic.

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

Because of this, many have called you a representative of postmodern Christianity — postmodern in the sense that while holding to the traditional doctrines of Christianity, you embrace a view of God's love and grace that extends beyond the parameters evangelicals tend to establish about who is «in» and who is «out» in God's family.

The «Old Me» from ten years ago debates the «New Me» from today about the traditional doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture.

(Mt 16:17) Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

Sam Hailes analyses the media's recent focus on four Christian leaders who have questioned the traditional doctrine of hell More

Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a traditional doctrine of faith or morals.

But what does this assertion of internal relatedness mean, particularly in light of the fact that Whitehead tells us in Adventures of Ideas (p. 157) that the traditional doctrine of «internal relations is distorted by reason of its description in terms of language adapted to presuppositions of the Newtonian type»?

I agree that Buddhism can not accept the traditional doctrine of God as developed in the West.

It would seem to me, therefore, that the use Altizer makes of Jesus» eschatological message, Paul's notion of the self - emptying of Christ, and the traditional doctrine of the incarnation, is suspect in the light of their historical contexts and original intentions.

The traditional doctrine of the communion of saints had heavenly members in the church which had an influence upon it.

But Methodist dogmatics had been plagued by the predicament of reconciling contingency in human affairs with the traditional doctrine of God's absolute foreknowledge — a reconciliation that Calvinist necessitarians gleefully declared impossible.

I think that a traditional doctrine of men / demons is responsible for this kind of teaching.

This leads us at once to an understanding, through the analysis of experience, of the traditional doctrine of the unity of God.

The reader is referred to the discussion in The Living God and the Modern World, pp. 108 - 41 where Peter Hamilton outlines the problem of the traditional doctrine of the after - life more fully than we have room for here.

The Incarnation and Divine Transcendence Why is it then that Islam, even when its traditional doctrine of transcendence is a little qualified as above, finds the core Christian claim that «God loved the world so much that He sent his only Son» so difficult?

Do you have a way which the books of the New Testament could be chosen, but which deals with the issues I have raised above so that we can maintain the traditional doctrine of inerrancy?

Mozley's summary was that a fresh emphasis on God as Love was the motivation for calling into question the traditional doctrine of God's impassibility.

In this passage, especially in the phrase «the nature of human affairs», Smith comes close to the traditional doctrine of original sin.

Indeed, such a development would bring us back very close to doctrines that he always has rejected: either the materialistic view» (as he called it in The Concept of Nature), or the traditional doctrine of creation.

They have challenged this form of the free will defense on several grounds, the most basic of which we have already mentioned: because the traditional doctrine of creation affirms that God creates the agent's free will, it ought to follow that the traditional God works the free will of the creatures, where this is inconsistent with the doctrine of freedom outlined above.

This constitutes such a considerable revision of the traditional doctrine of God that its very radicalness may argue there must be something wrong with it.

First, it should not be missed that Meriam's lawyers were primarily Muslims, and that more and more Muslims today are speaking out against the traditional doctrine of apostasy.

Some defenders of the traditional doctrine of creatio ex nihilo hold that cause has a series of analogous meanings, making the divine cause significantly unlike ordinary causes and, thus, not a threat to creaturely freedom.

In this paper, I will evaluate neither the process critique of the traditional doctrine of God nor the recent defenses of that doctrine as articulated by Burrell and others.

The traditional doctrine of inerrancy, like the traditional doctrine of inspiration, applies only to the original manuscripts.

Let us simply recall the climactic point of the just - war debate in the analysis made by Gratian and Thomas Aquinas, which became the traditional doctrine of the Catholic Church.

As far as original sin is concerned Dawkins is right to say that if we simply ditch «Adam and Eve» then we can not credibly maintain the traditional doctrine of original sin as a wound introduced by a historical individual and passed on to all further generations by inheritance.

My only quibble with Hasker's account would involve his statement that for process theists «the traditional doctrine of creation ex nihilo must be abandoned.»

Another large book, Liberating Grace (Orbis, 1979), appeared in 1976, exploring many facets of the traditional doctrine of grace in both social and individual terms.

For a nice summary of the traditional doctrine of the distinction between accidental unities and per se or essential unities, see Francis Suarez, MD 4, 3.

The appreciation of the unity of the cosmos has not yet been achieved by this academic sub-community - let alone the Faith suggestion that this could support the traditional doctrine of God as the mind immediately behind every aspect of the cosmos.

Balentine concedes the inescapable conclusion: even though Job's three friends argue passionately throughout on God's behalf for the traditional doctrine of retributive justice, the entire book is a repudiation of that doctrine.

Recent case law has taken the traditional doctrine of privilege and placed it on a new plane.

These results challenged the traditional doctrine of «localization of function» — the idea that brain functions were mediated by and localized to specific brain regions.

Not exact matches

Volf argues that Muslims have routinely misunderstood the doctrine of the Trinity as a form of polytheism, but the fact remains that traditional Muslims do not accept Jesus as the Son of God.

If you think the bible is enough, just look at the hundreds of traditional - Christian churches that read from one bible, yet teach hundreds of different doctrines, which confuses us as to which interpretation is the truth.

Last week a controversial book of theology was condemned by well - established critics who cautioned the public that the book did not present Christian doctrine in an accurate, biblical, or traditional way.

Both views preserve God's essential monopoly of power, and, in the end, according to the implications I have drawn from traditional doctrine, DP2 collapses into DP1.

Our attempts to organize the available nutrients have suggested a general lack of the traditional staple represented by the doctrine of the church.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

This «dialogue» has been an example of how to ensure that those who no longer subscribe to a literal, unexamined reading of the Bible and fundamentalist or traditional theology stay as far away as possible from the doctrine they left.

This is because the emergent «conversation» ¯ «movements» are passé and narrow - minded ¯ lacks the commentary and the narrative of traditional Christian doctrine.