Sentences with phrase «whole body of doctrine»

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This is an inadequate body of doctrine for the long haul of history, but it has served a whole generation remarkably well.

That doctrine embraces the whole of man, composed as he is of body and soul.

Slightly improved doctrines about the oppressed, about women, about the body, about community, or about the whole of creation will not change the church much.

Men like Tertullian and Methodius had also rightly maintained that the body is essential for the life of the whole man and any doctrine of immortality which dispenses with it must be inadequate.

By emphasizing a doctrine of Christ without the whole perspective of the Trinity, theology developed in a very one - sided way and has come to be pre-occupied with the church as the body of Christ, with its structure, hierarchy, and its rules and regulations.

The doctrine of Original Sin is a recognition that the damage wreaked upon human nature which we all inherit involves a weakening and wounding of our whole nature, body and soul.