Sentences with phrase «true doctrine of»

As if writing 40 years ago, the authors of On the Way to Life present the Second Vatican Council in a manner neither in keeping with the true doctrine of doctrinal development, the purpose of Councils, or the nature of the Tradition.

Christ taught the true doctrine of the Godhead when he suffered himself to be baptized by John.

Embodied in that story is the true doctrine of the ministry.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

As an example he suggests the replacement of the Offertory Prayers in the Novus Ordo with those from the Missal of Blessed John XXIII thereby recovering in its fullest expression the true doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Mass for the Novus Ordo.

The true doctrine of sense - perception is that the qualitative characters of affective tones inherent in the bodily functionings are transmuted into the characters of [external] regions.

The actual true doctrine of Jesus could have been recorded in some of the ruled out books and practiced by groups of Christians that the stronger party in Rome declared «heretic» and stamped out long ago.

Those who adhere to the true doctrines of Christ often end up poor because they're sacrificing themselves for others, something that other individuals do not often do.

Not exact matches

You can continue to spew out your immoral doctrine until you die, that doesn't make it true, and that doesn't make you any more pious even though you really want to feel better than everyone else because of it.

belief: 1: acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty 2: confidence that somebody or something is good or will be effective 3: something that somebody believes in: a statement, principle, or doctrine that a person or group accepts as true

For the true claims of Jews and Christians are based on the doctrine of revelation, which means that they are essentially the recipients of a message about the world, one given to them from the only source who can see the world from the perspective of transcendence — sub specie divinitatis.

A true Pagan may expose other doctrines, but a true pagan will not join combative forces to challenge another person's faith in the form of an attack.

A lot of churches believe in order to be considered a true Christian, you have to also accept the doctrine of the Trinity.

The writer to this article is not a very informed or intelligent individual and anyone who judges the LDS church by the polygamist doctrine is missing out on a true and virtuous, motivating, and service oriented religion, and is ultimately rejecting the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Most disagree with the practices, interpretation and doctrine of the other sects and many consider anyone who isn't in their particular church as «not true Christians».

I know of no current church body, which keeps the true doctrine.

Argues coherently and logically that the doctrine of Infallibility must be an essential element of the true Church of Christ.

The same is true of a doctrine of human beings or of societies or of electrons, or of the status of the past.

«At the present time of crisis it offers a way out of modernism, a way that is both modern and orthodox, a true development of doctrine.»

If, as some persons maintain, Christianity was a total transformation of the message of Jesus — a doctrine about Jesus rather than Jesus» own teaching — then it is of paramount importance to see how and why this transformation took place, or rather, first of all, whether the theory of transformation is true.

The main trouble with the doctrine of reincarnation is that it does not seem to be true to the facts.

True, the concepts, and the terms used to express them, are of great importance, especially for the later history of doctrine; and we are not likely to minimize them if we view New Testament theology as Book One or perhaps Chapter One in the History of Christian Ddoctrine; and we are not likely to minimize them if we view New Testament theology as Book One or perhaps Chapter One in the History of Christian DoctrineDoctrine.

«None of the doctrines is less true than the stories.

My definition of «church» has definitely changed over the years, and I find myself leaning more and more toward the idea that the true bride of Christ is a group of living breathing people — not a building, not an organization, not a set of doctrines, etc. — just people who continue on the path toward faith in God.

I still believe these things to be true and biblical, but I am now aware of different ways of approaching these doctrines which require further study on my part.

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.

By the end of it, Flournoy had in fact reached the opposite conclusion: that LDS doctrine is true, supported both by Mormon scriptures and the Bible.

In a true democracy, a doctrine of pluralism may be a way of safeguarding the rights of minorities; in a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authority.

It is true that on various occasions he mentions other doctrines as essential, including more objective ones such as the deity of Christ and the Trinity.

I think that I have thus presented the Catholic doctrine of justification, briefly, it is true, but without having left out anything really essential.

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

While part of what you said is quite true, I would contend that Jesus didn't have a great sense of humor, since it is from what Jesus supposedly said that the whole doctrine of hell came about, as well as some ther things he said that I would contend is fairly bad advice.

And the Church must be allowed to be true to herself — to preach Christian doctrine and Christian morality, in and out of season.

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.

Of particular relevance is the Buddhist doctrine of no - self and its corresponding affirmation in Zen, the doctrine of the true selOf particular relevance is the Buddhist doctrine of no - self and its corresponding affirmation in Zen, the doctrine of the true selof no - self and its corresponding affirmation in Zen, the doctrine of the true selof the true self.

The church, it is true, has always had to find ways of protecting its doctrine.

According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

According to the Christian doctrine, which I assume to be true, the natural man is subject of his carnal desires.

The same was true at all levels of the Doctrine Index — it was the Other - worldliness and found that such silent.

«The liberal - democratic mind, just as the mind of any true communist, feels an inner compulsion to manifest its pious loyalty to the doctrine.

In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.

For him this doctrine is not only the fundamental discriminator whereby one discerns the «true Christian» but also the universal teaching of the Christian church — at least prior to the rise of biblical criticism.

It is true that he very frequently discusses his doctrine within the context of perception, and one of the ways to the theory, probably the dominant one, was through the analysis of perceptual experience.

In a free society the same is true, but the official doctrine is one of responsible freedom rather than of unquestioning compliance to fixed orders.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

Still, we honor those, such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, who were able even without the blessing of Jewish or Christian faith to develop «positive rational doctrines of what life ought to be»» doctrines that (while not free of error) contain much that is profoundly true.

For it is not true, as a superficial view assumes, that the doctrine of the atonement is the qualitative difference between paganism and Christianity.

Were there no such thing as inspiration, Christianity would be true, and all its essential doctrines would be credibly witnessed to us in the generally trustworthy reports of the teaching of our Lord and of His authoritative agents in founding the Church, preserved in the writings of the apostles and their first followers....

True development of doctrine can only be made on the basis of a faithful continuity of principle with what has already been defined, just as true theology can only be done in the spirit of loyal service of the magisterTrue development of doctrine can only be made on the basis of a faithful continuity of principle with what has already been defined, just as true theology can only be done in the spirit of loyal service of the magistertrue theology can only be done in the spirit of loyal service of the magisterium.

In Fr Nesbitt's article «The Christ - Centred Vision of Creation», in last November's issue, he pointed out that Newman «found the Scotist perspective to be truest to the Greek Fathers he studied so closely» -LCB- Discourses to Mixed Congregations 32,1 - 2, and 358), and that in The Development of Christian Doctrine Newman says that «the Incarnation «establishes in the very idea of Christianity the sacramental principle as its characteristic» because: «It is our Lord's intention in the Incarnation to make us what He is Himself.»