Sentences with phrase «variety of doctrines»

Furthermore, the U.S. has a variety of doctrines that make it hard to find that a false statement was made in the first place.

The manifold variety of doctrines which could be encountered in early Greek philosophy and in the early Hellenistic age was abandoned (though to some extent revived in Gnostic circles), and in its place came a fairly uniform teaching, largely Stoic in origin, which laid emphasis on the four virtues of justice, courage, sobriety and understanding, and was addressed by preachers to individuals.

Not doing so has presented the «church» with a frightening variety of doctrines based on the same portions of Scripture.

In spite of the seeming variety of doctrines, one basic principle was accepted by almost all philosophical theists.

Christians, over the centuries, have pictured Jesus in many different ways and have expressed their beliefs in a variety of doctrines.

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

Not exact matches

The doctrine of «air assault» with helicopters continues to this day, and soldiers are often transferred to and from the battlefield in a variety of different helicopter types.

One place to see easily the variety of theological norms coming into play is in Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection, perhaps both the key text for those who wished to sustain continuity with the spiritual experience of classical Wesleyanism and a source of much controversy with outsiders who found the key doctrine of the Wesleyan tradition offensive.

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

There is a total confusion in doctrine, a variety of practice and a generalised belief that a general inculcation of «all things bright and beautiful» is enough.

The author, warden of Greyfriars and lecturer in history and doctrine at Oxford, clearly poses the question of his title, examines the answers to the question proposed by Scripture, authoritative tradition, and a wide variety of contemporary thinkers, and then presents his own conviction, persuasively giving the reasons why.

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.

But it would be a mistake to suppose that the Johannine doctrine of eternal life through knowledge of God is merely a variety of the current teaching of Hellenistic mysticism.

The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

This doctrine is a necessary condition for the limitation of independent variety, which is, in turn, a necessary condition for «valid inductive inference» to predictions and to theories.

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The experience led Chambers to perceptual realism, which was as much a philosophy, rooted in Catholic doctrine and the writing of the French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau - Ponty, as it was a style of painting; and it marked a radical departure from his previous work, which cut a wide swath across a variety of genres.

Indeed, as is characteristic of America as a whole, this polymorphous aesthetic confederation is predicated on a healthy tolerance for variety rather than on rigid doctrines or criteria.

When I began my teaching career, at Georgetown, I taught a traditional legal writing course with writing assignments drawn from a variety of doctrinal areas, paying more attention to skills I wanted to teach — e.g. analyzing statutes, using elements tests, analogizing and distinguishing cases, synthesizing case and statutory law, etc. — than to integrating any particular area of doctrine.

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