Sentences with phrase «twelthe article of faith»

What such early true believers opposed was a society with lords and ladies — so egalitarianism became an article of faith, with «comrade» replacing «Mr» and «sir» in party forums.

Indeed, in the United Kingdom, the value of such an arrangement is an article of faith: Today, 95 % of the FTSE 100 companies have an independent chair.

Another article of faith is that the Communist Party won't allow housing prices to collapse.

In Silicon Valley the tight correlation between personal interactions, performance, and innovation is an article of faith, and innovators are building cathedrals reflecting this.

I believe in God, but that's an article of faith, and nothing more.

Moreover, B'nai B'rith seems not to understand that, in asking the SBC to «repeal» its resolution, it is asking Southern Baptists to abandon what is for them an article of faith, namely, that it is the obligation of Christians to try to bring absolutely everybody, including Jews, to a «saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.»

But Ehrlich's prognostications never fell far out of favor, particularly with environmentalists who take it as an article of faith that the planet is already overcrowded.

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.

For the chairman of the Standing Commission on Evangelism, while claiming to honor those authoritative references, the normative articles of faith are constructed by perceived cultural directions and personal needs.

Both Bishop Wantland and the Rev. Norgard are devoted to articles of faith.

One of our Articles of Faith states, «We believe in being subjects to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.»

Those who held it as an article of faith that on the «Day of the Lord» Israel, being God's people, would triumph over all their enemies, were living in a fool's paradise.

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

And it has been an article of faith in this country that a rising tide lifts all boats.

Cynthia Gorney's prodigiously researched Articles of Faith: A....

There are two further articles of faith that remain intensely, personally important to this ministry fifteen years out.

According to catholic teaching, the existence of hell, of a state of eternal damnation, is an article of faith (as indeed, given free will and evil, it is a logical necessity); but that some human beings are or will be in fact damned is not an article of faith (though again logically it must be regarded as a possibility): hence Pere Teilhard's prayer further on in this passage.

Will these articles of faith be discarded over time as well?

One of the LDS Articles of Faith is, in part: «We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent... if there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.»

Your average Catholic doesn't profess every article of faith the Pope demands.

Seems like you are making an article of faith of your «naturalism» or «Materialism» there.

This assertion rests on some form of Murray's familiar distinction between articles of faith and articles of peace.

«Greek paideia,» writes Jaeger, itself «became a religion and an article of faith.»

For the first disciples» faith in the resurrection is itself part and parcel of the eschatological event which is the article of faith.

In this way the resurrection is not a mythological event adduced in order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itself.

Liberalism's articles of peace thus mask tacit articles of faith in a particular eighteenth - century conception of nature and nature's God, which also entails an eighteenth - century view of the Church.

That basic article of faith does not, however, imply that human beings know God's plan in detail.

No; the real difficulty is that the resurrection is itself an article of faith, and you can not establish one article of faith by invoking another.

Examine our Articles of Faith, «We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved...»

Maciel can not be made an article of faith.

Given the sufficiency of Scripture, «whatsoever is not read therein,» declares Article VI of the Thirty - nine Articles, «nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.»

Like The Gift of Salvation statement issued by Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1997, the Joint Declaration represents a measure of convergence between Catholic and Reformational understandings of that article of faith by which the Church either stands or falls, to quote a favorite Lutheran saying.

- imply that the reader is in a position to judge an article of faith.

It's an article of faith.

Mary's Assumption was defined as an article of faith in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, who made clear that he was speaking infallibly.

Creationism is a theory and article of faith — and not wholly inconsistent with the scientific method.

It is an article of faith among the Earth Charter group that the planet is overpopulated and getting worse, and that serious efforts to limit our numbers are in order.

So - called «realistic politics» seems to take as an article of faith that control though coercion (in the sense of overriding people's desires, wants, and aims) is a more successful, strong, efficient, and competent form of power or control.

In this line of reasoning, which has the most liberal, even antinomian, consequences, «justification by faith alone» is the only article of faith that matters.

Believing in the physical resurrection of Jesus is a 100 % essential article of faith to anyone who wishes to claim the moniker «Christian» for him / herself.

And when the so - called «divinity of Christ» becomes an article of faith independent of that divine world - orientation, then the gospel of the incarnation of the Word has been replaced by yet another declaration of the divinization or apotheosis of a seemingly human being.

This point is similar to the distinction Thomas Aquinas makes between some articles of faith which are as such secundum se and others in ordine ad alia (ST 2 - 2, q. 1, a. 6).

Sikhs have worn turbans since 1699, when the last living Sikh guru bestowed a unique Sikh identity based on five articles of faith.

That Christ will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead is an article of our faith.

Islam, like all other great religions, has a theology of its own which aims at the establishment of its fundamental articles of faith and the refutation of heresy and innovation.

In this statement, we address four aspects of that article of faith.

If we can really assure ourselves by natural reason that God exists then that is not an article of faith, and the same goes for Christ's divinity, if, as apologists claim, we have good rational grounds for thinking that he claimed to be divine, that he was neither mad nor a fraud, and that he rose from the dead.

Once people accepted as an article of faith that modern science could explain the totality of our world, they had to say that anything which fell outside the scope of science isn't real.

Yet even at the height of their reforms, they could also argue in the Augsburg Confession that «the churches among us do not dissent from the catholic church in any article of faith.»

From LDS Articles of Faith: «We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.