And here I was challenged, because how do
you write about doctrine and how the Scriptures impact people's lives without sounding like a cheap tract?
Not exact matches
It is
written; «If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the
doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting
about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness»
My father also taught me, even when I was a child, that Bruce R. McConkie, who
wrote some unflattering stuff
about non-whites in «Mormon
Doctrine,» stood in Conference after the 1978 announcement and said he had obviously been wrong on those points, and he retracted everything not in keeping with the Brethren's announcement.
If you are a non-US writer who has come up with a new religious
doctrine and have insufficient funds to promote your writings, the only chance you have is if someone in the US happens to read
about you, is interested in what you
wrote and has the potential to mention your
writing and / or your name in the US mainstream media.
Considering that it took the Church
about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds
about theology, to start picking scripture to match that
doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections»
written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false
doctrine to begin with?
• Traditional liberals,
writes our friend Robert P. George, have promoted their views as a way that people holding conflicting comprehensive
doctrines» «an integrated set of beliefs
about the human good, human dignity, and human destiny»» can live together.
It is a professional hazard for a theologian to
write extensively
about the
doctrine of God.
Being a Christian is
about a personal relationship with Christ, not enforcing man
written doctrines.
The mystical tradition, with which I have great sympathy and
about which I have
written in the companion volume What can we Learn from Hinduism, unites believers beyond the differences of
doctrines and ritual and stresses the longing to experience the presence of God.
Now,
writes his biographer, «Mann was
about to preach a new religion and convince his constituency of the need for a new establishment, a nondenominational institution, the public school, with schoolmasters as a new priestly class, patriotic exercises as quasi-religious rituals, and a nonsectarian
doctrine stressing morality, literacy and citizenship as a republican creed for all to confess.
«How can anyone pay any attention to a
doctrine that grew out of a Greek conceptual system being imposed on Jewish Scriptures, that was as foreign to Jesus as it is to us, that depends on concepts and a common sense that have gone the way of the Roman Empire, and that is
about as understandable as if it were still
written in ancient Greek?»
The question of how many men
wrote the Book of Isaiah can not be answered by quoting
doctrines about the Bible but only by detailed study of the text.
The person who
wrote this obviously does nt know the first thing
about Christianity or Biblical
Doctrine on Sex.
But then there are the accelerationists - political pyromaniacs whose agenda is chaos from which they may profit, a kind of «disaster socialism» to mirror the disaster capitalism Naomi Klein
wrote about in The Shock
Doctrine.
I shared a letter available on the Library of Congress website,
written by George Washington, that warned his friend
about the
Doctrines of the Illuminati.
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.
She's not
writing so that someday, someone will know
about the
doctrines of the religion, or why she believed or didn't believe, but so that she herself will never forget that among all the unseen and the intangible that make up an evangelical life, there were things that were real; things that happened, that you could see and smell and touch.
Justice Thomas
wrote: «I continue to harbor doubts
about whether the vagueness
doctrine can be squared with the original meaning of the due process clause — and those doubts are only amplified in the removal context.»
Along the way, they may believe that they are keeping the broader lessons
about analysis and
writing in their peripheral vision, but they lose some of the legal
writing doctrine from the first assignment by the first draft of the second.2
In fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating
writing with
doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students
about the importance of
writing in their legal careers and
about the relationships between
doctrine, analysis, and
writing; 51 there is a strong connection between
writing and thinking; 52 and
writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating
doctrine and
writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not
write in a vacuum, they always
write about some legal
doctrine, and they learn that
doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to
write about it.
Referring to the
doctrine of cumulative cause, the Ontario Court concluded that there was just cause to terminate Mr. Chopra's employment because Easy Plastic had given him ample verbal and
written warnings
about poor performance and misconduct, the cumulative effect being serious and prejudicial (indeed, in at least one instance, intended to harm Easy Plastic).
The assembled judges pleaded with the law professors to
write about actual cases and
doctrines, in quick, plain and accessible articles.
Some of the judges from the conference referred to above supposedly «pleaded with the law professors to
write about actual cases and
doctrines, in quick, plain and accessible articles».
Law professors used to «
write illuminatingly
about legal
doctrine» in articles and treatises.
I never envisioned publishing encyclopedia entries on Islamic philosophers,
writing about critical thinking pedagogy, investigating the
doctrine of stare decisis, or sending out book proposals (as you might guess, it's the «jack - of - all - trades» syndrome, but I'm more interested in the politics and ethics of intellectual responsibility than professional standing and status): nothing could have been further from my mind!
So did Justice Stratas in his lecture, as called upon judges, lawyers, and scholars alike to devote ourselves to
doctrine, and on all of those who
write about the law to take
doctrine seriously.
Last year, I
wrote about about a symposium at McGill
about the «Responsibility of
Doctrine».
He forces us to think
about the media we use to present legal
doctrine, even we do
write about it.
At least some of Friday's presenters insisted that la
doctrine is our joint responsibility as juristes... So did Justice Stratas in his lecture, as called upon judges, lawyers, and scholars alike to devote ourselves to
doctrine, and on all of those who
write about the law to take
doctrine seriously.
Adrian
writes about a broad range of themes including leadership, modern culture, Christian
doctrine, and the Church.