doctrine of faith

What a day dawns, when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith!

Fascinating practice, very close to Satanism, but not really much of a religion - no doctrine of faith.

Those who take the biblical account of creation literally reject the scientific method, offering instead a doctrine of faith.

ORU has been criticized for endorsing unorthodox doctrines of faith.

In a way this is like the Christian doctrine of faith: people cannot know God's mind and will, and so must rely on faith.

A pope speaks with infallibility, according to the Second Vatican Council, when "he proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals."

In the Reformation, Martin Luther expressed Paul's doctrine of faith most strongly as justification by faith alone.

John "Rabbi" Duncan said once that Sandemanianism was "the doctrine of justifying righteousness along with the Popish doctrine of faith."

When it is recognized that the doctrine of faith alone is false, and true faith is joined to how one lives one's life, the rest of the theology falls apart.

This recognition was not a goal in itself; rather they were a byproduct of other doctrines of faith that encouraged planning, hard work and self-denial in the pursuit of worldly riches.

The play considers, among other topics, the dangerous interplay of politics and religion, the potentially agonizing conflicts between the doctrines of faith and sexual desire, and the fluid nature of identity.

When the delegates met in Regensburg in 1540-41, representatives agreed on the doctrine of faith and justification, but could not agree on sacraments, confession, absolution, and the definition of the church.

During his stay in Turin, he became influenced by the thought of the Christian left intellectual Felice Balbo who sought to combine Marxist activism and the Catholic doctrines of faith.

The Bible, other Latter Day Saint scriptures, Apostles and Prophets provide clear explanations of the Latter Day Saint doctrines of Faith, Works, Grace and Perfection.

Richard takes up the hammer and points to the crowd, telling them that the Order only wishes to destroy beauty, only wishes to enslave humanity under the doctrine of faith unsupported by the true value of life.

He affirmed that God called the Society into being to renew this "ancient and perpetual grace," which Catholics neglected and of which the heretics thought they had no need because of their doctrine of faith alone.

Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, who would later become Pope Benedict XVI, was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith by Pope John Paul II.

Part of the doctrine follows the Anglo-Israel theological doctrine of faith, as well as a version of the "serpent seed" doctrine that identifies a "Kenite" lineage of people descended from Cain.

Dr. Oanh, now an adviser to the Hanoi Government on economics and trade, is no respecter of ideology, and he believes that Communism for many party leaders is a doctrine of faith rather than a political system.

Based upon the philosophical system developed above, and after the exposition of the doctrine of faith, the problem of human free will and its relation to faith in a divine providence, or predestination, may be regarded as much nearer its solution.

He was pleased with the moderate tone of the actual definition, which "affirmed the pope's infallibility only within a strictly limited province: the doctrine of faith and morals initially given to the apostolic Church and handed down in Scripture and tradition".

It is precisely this sort of heresy that Jennifer Michael Hecht celebrates in "Doubt: A History" (HarperSanFrancisco, $27.95), which outlines the views of those who rejected dominant doctrines of faith or proclaimed disbelief in the existence of God.

From the speculative doctrines of faith, the truth of which can be proved only by reasoning, are to be distinguished the historical dogmas whose authenticity is based principally upon divine revelation, or, to speak more exactly, upon the historical tradition of such a revelation (ib.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

The larger and smaller Sukhavati-Vyuha and the later Amitayadhyana Sutra may well have expressed and moulded the devotional life of Nalanda, and in them we may trace the gradual development of the doctrine of faith at the expense of the older doctrine of merit.