They use the doctrine of inerrancy to support their outlandish teachings from the Bible.
Dr. Gary North, a major figure among the Dominionists, clarifies their goal and tactics: «We must
use the doctrine of religious liberty... until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government.
In his return to classical Christian anthropology, Niebuhr
used the doctrine of original sin.
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.
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.
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Betsy DeVos has served on the board of the Acton Institute which has featured events by Christian Dominionist Gary North who is on record writing, without irony: «So let us be blunt about it: we must
use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government.
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If he sues another driver for negligence, the defendant may ask the jury to
use the doctrine of comparative negligence to reduce any settlement by the percentage of fault attributable to the motorcyclist.
California personal injury law
uses a doctrine of «comparative negligence» to determine legal responsibility for damages caused by a car accident.
In attempting to explain its legitimacy,
I use the doctrine of implied consent to classify all U.S. citizens under the «consent of the governed».
Because of this heightened duty of care, the court ruled that the Buyer's Representative could not
use the doctrine of caveat emptor as a defense to the Buyer's allegations.
Not exact matches
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.
This Article analyzes the questions
of racial equity raised by these new predictive instruments
using two lenses: constitutional
doctrine and emerging technical standards
of «algorithmic fairness.»
Under
doctrines called champerty and maintenance, the law
used to bar unrelated third parties from paying someone else to engage in litigation and financing a lawsuit in exchange for a share
of the damages.
It is absolutely committed to the negative
doctrine that there is no divine revelation that delivers genuine knowledge
of God; it is absolutely committed to a radically apophatic conception
of Christian theology, so that no human language or concept, no product
of reason at all, can adequately express the mystery
of the divine; and it is absolutely committed to
using theology to articulate Christian
doctrine given the needs and idiom
of the day.
They have
used this revised
doctrine of God to argue for the subordination
of women to men in the present, in a manner that has at times had terrible pastoral consequences.
Also, the term «religion»
used to reflect «belief / faith» before the various incorporations
of human
doctrines.
These «churches,» and I
use that term very loosely here, think they can pick and choose the principles and
doctrines they like, and create the god
of their choice.
The primary text
used to support the
doctrine of the Inspiration
of Scripture is 2 Timothy 3:16.
Scholars
of the
doctrine point out that, when appropriately
used, armed combat aims to bring about a peaceful and just social order for both sides
of the conflict.
Naomi Klein, in her book Shock
Doctrine, suggests that governments will
use this for selfish ends, i.e.: create the crisis to change the mind
of the public.
After this, we will look carefully at numerous texts from Scripture which are often
used by Calvinists to defend the
doctrine of Unconditional Election, and will suggest alternative explanations for these texts which fit better with their grammatical, cultural, theological, and historical contexts.
When the winds
of doctrine try to blow our beliefs to the ground, we turn our open hand into them,
using their ideas to force our beliefs more firmly against the hand.
Please note that Baer, Capizzi, and other proponents
of just war
doctrine are not making a case for any specific
use of lethal power.
Jones unabashedly puts secular feminist theory to «church work,»
using it to remap the core Reformed
doctrines of justification and sanctification, sin and ecclesiology.
It brings to light the tangled hierarchy in their
doctrine and shows what their beliefs actually mean
using only the logical quantifiers
of propositional calculus, that either (Mormonism is FALSE or Women are DAMNED).
When I first began to examine the
doctrine of the Inspiration
of Scripture, it was because I saw so much Bible - abuse in our churches and from our pulpits, that is, people, pastors, and even seminary professors
using the Bible in ways that made me extremely uncomfortable.
We can no longer allow the corruption
of scripture to be
used to justify abusive and horribly damaging false
doctrine to be taught.
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 D
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
DoctrineDoctrine.
were
used by the evangelist to represent a popular
doctrine that ignored the inevitability and necessity
of suffering.
Have you noticed that those who
use the term almost always follow its
use by their «interpretation»
of what Scripture (usually certain specific passages, which result in certain specific
doctrines) says?
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.
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.
The liturgical prayers presently
used in the Catholic wedding ceremony capture the Catholic
doctrine on marriage:» Father, to reveal the plan
of your love, you made the union
of husband and wife an image
of the covenant between you and your people.
There are now many voices championing orthodoxy in matters
of faith, and new resources for communicating Catholic
doctrine at a popular level,
using all the creativity and power
of the modern media.
They are opposed to the
use of force, and although they are a bridge between Wahhabi and Sufi practices, they follow orthodox Sunni
doctrines, rather than the usual Sufi teachings, and accept the school
of Malik in the particular requirements
of religion.
Whether attacking the Times et al. for skewing the story to advance their own agenda, or complimenting the pope for
using an unsuspecting press to help him broadcast Gospel truths, almost all such authors have agreed in insisting that there was nothing contrary to
doctrine in the matter
of our pontiff's remarks.
Paul
used every means at his disposal to convince others
of the validity
of his
doctrines.
I am arguing for God, I am arguing to free our understanding
of God from the prison
of these
doctrines —
doctrines from a particular time and place that are too often considered to be our final destination, instead
of guideposts along the way;
doctrines that are too often
used to stop questions instead
of to help find answers.
One possibility is that we are simply
using this current language to speak
of the importance
of the church's developing its
doctrine of nature more fully and in ways appropriate to our new understanding
of the relation between human beings and the natural world.
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.»
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.
They were not puppets in His hand, compelled to do His will without moral responsibility for their deed, but chosen because He saw that the very iniquity
of their heart would lead them to the course that He could
use (Rowley,
Doctrine of Election, p. 40 - 41)
The Fox network could not have existed three decades ago because the Federal Communications Commission still
used the Fairness
Doctrine and equal time rules to require stations to provide time — even free time — to air all sides
of issues
of public importance.
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.
In section III, I have argued that this
use of the Cartesian starting point has many points in common with Leibniz's interpretation
of the «First Meditation,» chief among them being a rejection
of substance metaphysics, a
doctrine of internal relations, and a monadic view
of reality and consciousness.
Because the Charter has been
used and will be
used to read the moral law out
of the Common Law and to read in a
doctrine of autonomy that represents an incoherent anthropology
of unfettered self - determination, incompatible with the Common Law.