Sentences with phrase «upon the teachings of»

He wishes to base the doctrine of God as pure Being upon the teaching of the Bible as a whole.

We can, however, challenge both the contemporary and historical followers of the Reformers to advance upon the teachings of their forebears.

For example, Jean Janzen draws upon the teaching of Julian of Norwich in a hymn addressed to «Mothering God / Mothering Christ / Mothering Spirit.»

It may be formed in the Judaeo - Christian community through the whole corpus of the Biblical writing; or it may be dependent specifically upon the teaching of Jesus or Paul.

Much of Western Culture is based upon and indeed built upon the teachings of Jesus Christ — Democracy and the Protestant Work Ethic are just two things that immediately come to mind.

The threefold office (Latin: munus triplex) of Jesus Christ is a Christian doctrine based upon the teachings of the Old Testament of which Christians hold

He also teaches Vedantic meditation based upon the teachings of Ramana Maharshi.

Not exact matches

If you keep waiting to teach them until the task is upon you, they'll never be capable of freeing you from the task.

The first generation of successful founders took it upon themselves to teach and mentor the next generation.

About 20 years ago when he was working at Bell Labs (now AT&T's Image Processing Research Department), he happened upon a way of thinking about teaching computers to see that wasn't really used outside of academia until about three years ago.

BUILDING ON BEDROCK: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self - Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies For founders and investors — based upon research, and told through the stories of famous and not - so - famous American entrepreneurs.

In the real world, this is simply not true» Guy Spier «A whole body of academic work formed the foundation upon which generations of students at the country's major business schools were taught about Modern Portfolio Theory, Efficient Market Theory and Beta.

Inarticulate and clumsy??? Let's see how many of your words, teachings, sayings, and so forth are quoted 2,000 years after you walk upon this earth... You are completely ridiculous.

Meanwhile you assail the church and insist on tainting our children with the lie of homosexuality, being taught in our schools upon your insistence.

(144,000 the new Jerusalem) * Revelation 3:12 and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: (Revelation 21:12) And it shall come to pass in the last days * Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

No al, I said ideal, because I meant god is an idea — I am implying (albeit unsuccessfully, given your question) that our notion of god is a concept, something that we are taught and upon which people build.

This is not an issue of the Catholic church forcing their teaching upon people, it is an issue of the Church being forced to disregard their teaching.

Such development of doctrine, typically in response to grave error and deviant traditions built upon such error, is to be understood not as an addition to the apostolic teaching contained in Holy Scripture but as Spirit - guided insight into the fullness of that teaching.

Very funny, the Statue of Jesus peace be upon him got burnt, and people in their comments talk about muslims and islam, very weird, but probably I should not be surprised, there are 1.5 Billion muslims in the world, and if islam really teaches terrorism then none of the nonmuslims will be alive.

This gets into philosophy - of - law issues, of course, but even some imaginable judicially restrained economic - autonomy - is - Locke's - teaching scholars (i.e., really none of the libertarian con - law scholars I know of) would be advocating a way of life, and a pattern of regular legislation, that centered one's practice of liberty upon, well, business - man, or to speak Republic book VIII, oligarchic - man, accomplishments.

An important aspect of that is developing any working upon a stronger happier family and that morals and guidelines given for creating and maintaining those families is a way to develop that mastery of those teachings from God that greater happiness and greater development of our well being,

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

If the 24 - hour news cycle has taught us anything, it's that one need not possess firsthand knowledge of a subject to orate upon it at great length.

Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

«He knows his sheep, and they know him; and it is this direct bearing of the teacher on the taught, of his mind upon their minds, and the mutual sympathy which exists between them, which is his strength and influence when he addresses them.

At the interfaith prayer service held in today for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing (including Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University, where I teach), President Barack Obama was once again called upon to play the pastor - in - chief at a moment of national tragedy.

This teaching is founded upon the nature of the human person and of sex.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

When I was a pastor, I often quoted Isaiah 28:10 - 13 as proof that God's preferred method of teaching was also line by line, precept upon precept.

He was born under such and such circumstances; he came under the formative influences of the people to which he belonged; and when upon reaching maturity he felt an inner impulse and call to this end, he began in his own way to teach others.

Upon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faUpon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faupon the historic origins of its faith.

Against the liberal tendency to dwell upon the personality and teaching of Jesus, he stressed the sheer fact of Incarnation.

Acknowledgment: — In carrying out my commission to restate the teachings and retell the doings of Jesus of Nazareth, I have drawn freely upon all sources of record and planetary information.

In the previous discussions of the Qur» an we have seen that it contains many specific passages calling upon the people to follow its teachings and be guided by its legislation.

This concentration in Jesus» teaching upon his action made it possible for the disciples to conceive of his death also as divine action, which in turn led to the primitive Christian sacraments as custodians of «Jesus» understanding of himself».

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

In the words of Paul, salutary teaching produces piety or godliness, which gives rise to a moral life grounded upon the intrinsic social nature of human existence.

I don't think that's what Catholic dogma teaches — it is merely for the type of suffering you are describing, that during suffering, the strength one can draw upon is from a closeness with God (or a feeling of something greater that can help one).

Saying (or even implying) that Jesus» silence in the Synoptics is tantamount to an absence of clear teaching is to engage in the logical fallacy of «reasoning from silence,» which is built upon shaky rationality.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

«And a Church,» he writes, «that taught one part of mankind to walk upright and unafraid through one Dark Age may yet summon up the power that will enable us to avert another Dark Age, or to face it, if it begins to descend upon us, with unyielding courage.»

The teachings of Christ that have been hung upon this framework and that have found in it a serviceable explanatory tool can not in themselves change.

Tolerance is in fact coherent with, and has flowed from reflection upon, the teaching of the Catholic Church, which inherently calls for charity in all things.

Some justify turning a deaf ear to the Conciliar teaching of Gaudium et Spes by pointing to the word «pastoral» in its title, to its unusual aversion for definitive canons, and its apparent emphasis upon the sixties concept of «progress».

Certainly, Jesus changed some of the Kingdom expectations through His life, teaching, and ministry, especially in the areas of what sort of Messiah King He was going to be, and how the Kingdom of God would exist and function upon the earth, but the overall hopes and dreams of Israel, especially as presented within the Prophets, remained intact through the teachings and ministry of John, Jesus, and the Early Church.

The teaching of the Catholic Church does not impose any extra duties upon them.

I left Methodism upon graduation from high school, concluding that while the community had nurtured me all my life, I could not accept all of the teachings in any kind of literal way.

In Christ's teaching enormous stress is laid upon the way in which men and women treat one another, and the whole concept of a human being is raised in value because he is declared to be a loved and valued son of God.

Is that the God of whom Jesus taught that he makes his rain to fall upon the just and the unjust, that he causes his sun to shine on the evil and on the good?