Sentences with phrase «use doctrine as»

In this case, Congress basically codified the fair use doctrine as it was being used at the time by the courts.

He has used the doctrine as cover to further expand Russia's sphere of influence; for Putin, Islamic State is a geopolitical gift he can use to secure his country's strategic influence in the Middle East.

If you are not a believer in their doctrines it is illogical to use those doctrines as a justification for a belief, in this case abortion.

Not exact matches

The Hebrew Scriptures can be used for our doctrines just as the NT.

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.

It will be useful at the outset to distinguish two matters that the very title of this response tends confusingly to run together, viz., (1) «Hermeneutics,» in particular hermeneutics as shaped by commitments to the conceptuality and doctrines of process philosophy, and (2) the use of Scripture - as - interpreted in the course of doing theology.

While some Christians like to use specific doctrines as a litmus test, others like to use specific lifestyles as a litmus test.

In other words, although Calvinists sometimes use Titus 1:15 to defend their doctrine of Total Depravity, this verse might actually condemn theologies that include teachings like Total Depravity as being «unchristian.»

Some of the other examples could be more easily interpreted as using the term theology where once the church would have spoken of doctrine.

Because I take seriously Whitehead's claim that the most fundamental order of reality is aesthetic, and the attendant doctrine that «The real world is good when it is beautiful» (AI, Chapter XVIII, Section III), I want to propose that we use the category of beauty as the norm in constructing our images of person - hood and of personal and communal relations.

Wills» Syllabus errorum leaves virtually no room for what used to be the liberal understanding of the development of Catholic doctrine; as Wills surely understands, false doctrines are not said to «develop.»

If doctrine might be represented by an object such as a chair, then theology would be the use to which that object is put, its effect on its surroundings and the perspective it gives on its environment.

The word doctrine is therefore being used in a way that is flexible enough to accommodate the variety of biblical teaching on these and other subjects as well as the factor of development in some themes as we move from the Old Testament into the New Testament.

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.

Yes, as important as theology and doctrine is, it can not be used to beat someone over the head.

In the model which I have proposed, using electronic media as an example, it will be seen that theology is related to doctrine as the second step («encoding») is to the first («decoding») in the same process.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

At one point, in what appears a clever lawyerlike play, Pagels discredits Augustine's doctrine of the literal fall of Adam and Eve with the observation that it is hopelessly unscientific, and as a historian she feels compelled to add that Augustine's great foe, Pelagius, would also have had no use for science.

Credence must be given to the writer in one area though in that Christendom has failed in some ways to properly «speak» or represent Christ from their pulpits and daily walk; some spew out false doctrine and self - serving «religiosity» that one can not be surprised that the Enemy (Satan) is now using those same words and actions to accuse them through writers such as we see here.

Theologians such as Tom Driver resisted efforts to reduce drama to «tools» which were available for «use» in speading a message or «selling» Christian doctrine.

But when I have seen this, my next task is to let the book's message universalize itself in my mind as God's own teaching or doctrine (to use the word that Calvin loved) now addressed to humankind in general and to me in particular within the frame of reality created by the death, resurrection, and present dominion of Jesus Christ.

The addition of the doctrine of internal relations as a necessary condition for evolution can clarify three arguments used by Birch to support his claim that low levels of order, such as particles, must have a subjective as well as a mechanical aspect.

I am not positive, but from what I understand, the doctrine of inspiration at its core is generally used to define the nature of Scripture as God's Word.

As evangelicals have discussed the doctrine of inspiration, two different approaches have been used.

Using as his criterion the biblical doctrine of the Incarnation, Thomas Ogletree recently issued a positive evaluation of process thought.

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.

This doctrine is popularly termed «objective immortality» yet Whitehead's term is «everlastingness» (always in quotes, as for example PR 347), because he had already used «objective immortality» for the temporal shift from subjectivity to objectivity.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

Though there are people among the «priestly class», as you call it, that use the doctrine of inspiration to lord their educated / professional status over the average church members, there are plenty of others (such as my pastor, and probably most every Calvary Chapel pastor) who approach their charge as shepherds of the flock with the proper attitude of a helper and clarifier to the flock seeking to understand the meaning of the Bible.

My provocative yet popular drawing of Sophia «Trapped» (available as a print here) has been used as the cover image for Cynthia McClaskey's new book, Religion's Cell: Doctrines of the Church That Lead to Bondage and Abuse (< — click there to order from Amazon!)

This «Fairness Doctrine» has become the foundation of free speech on radio and television, and it has prevented many of the more blatant attempts by some broadcasters to use the public airwaves as nothing more than a sounding board for their own special views and interests.

If it were not for the doctrine of original sin, which follows from the resurrection — just as a parting glance at who we used to be follows from seeing ourselves as we are coming to be — we would be left with a religion requiring us to «get it right,» and that is no joy at all.

For then it would be open to question whether one is dealing with a concept which is possible but which can correspond to no possible reality, or rather with the concept of something truly real.9 In contrast to these different possible dialectical ways in which the initial concept of a universal becoming can be used, Whitehead's categoreal system aims to describe it unmistakably as the fundamental truth: «The ancient doctrine that «no one crosses the same river twice,» is extended.

People and governments sometimes scapegoat religion or use it as additional motivation for the massive, but that is not religion's fault and generally not an accepted part of many religious doctrines.

For the others, I have considerable respect and at least some sympathy — but somewhere along the winding trail from natural law to theological doctrine, he and I part company (though I'd happily tag along as what the Communists used to call a fellow traveler, if he'd tolerate the company).

I want to use this response as a way of clarifying the implications of the no - self doctrine.

It's very important that the catechist is extremely familiar with the Catechism text and uses an appropriate Scripture passage as the driving force of the talk, the doctrine hanging on the Scripture.

That is, universal sinfulness is a biblical idea, but the way Calvinists use this idea to form other doctrines causes me to reject total depravity as Calvinists understand and define it.

The Bible presupposes a right and a wrong interpretation of Jesus» coming and the nature and character of God, as it uses strong language against false teachers who promote doctrines that undermine the gospel.

Secondly, if Christian leaders use the concepts of the new ethic without explicitly clarifying what distinguishes them from the social doctrine of the Church and from the gospel, as is often the case, the faithful will be at a loss and will tend not to discern the difference.

Moreover, since his concern as a teacher was to root doctrine in the inmost affection of the heart, he learned from the rhetorical tradition recovered by Erasmus and Budé how to use language to move the hearts and affections of his readers so that their piety might be built up within them.

Paul blessings as i shared with Christine it is a personal relationship with Jesus when Jesus called his disciples he said follow me not the church not man.I belong to 2 churchs and i keep in touch with a couple indirectly and minister from time to time they are all different styles and different doctrines and in each of them i have people i care about they are family to me brothers and sisters in the Lord and i can go there and feel at home we sing and worship the Lord and hear the word together its awesome.I used to feel that i did nt fit in now i can fit in anywhere because where we go he goes with us.There is unity in Christ even though we may differ in doctrine.brentnz

in using jonestown as an example, you are attempting to compare an occult mentality with main stream religious doctrine.

Relating this to a doctrine of God, he writes, «If God contains my act as mine, but not as his, then my act is not his act in any personal sense, and the verb «contain» is being used in an impersonal sense.»

Nygren thus uses his doctrine of the contrasting motifs of eros and agape to point to what is distinctive in the Reformation conception of love, but he treats this as the only interpretation of love which really expresses the New Testament conception.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

They use these «doctrines» as a license to live worldly lives.

The devil can make your do nothing, you have free will, God's greatest gift to humanity... To believe in God is to accept for responsibility for your actions, the anti-religious use rhetoric to slam religion yet they will never step up and use truth or doctrine to debate... Look up free will on the Vatican site and you will see your theory on the «devil made me do it» as baloney and hate propaganda...

Politician who use religious doctrine as a governing platform should be excluded from office.

The word «fallibilism» occurs in the Collected Papers as the expression of a doctrine only in 1.171 and in another fragment (1.8 - 14) of the same date (c. 1897), and I have never seen the word used in this way in writings not included in the Collected Papers.