Sentence examples for creation doctrine from inspiring English sources

Thus, the primacy of Christology and of the doctrine of justification in Reformation theology led to a depreciation of the creation doctrine and a Christian cosmology.

But it still contained a clear creation doctrine by stating that whereas evolution may account for the development of the body "...the formation of the soul is an act of special creation" (Grogan 1963 300).

According to Desgabets's account of the creation doctrine, "… objects precede truth in the order of nature," such that, "… it is impossible that the whole be greater than its part if there is no whole or parts, which is to say in a word, that our principle is found yet more true, and it is impossible to think of nothing".

Indeed, as Augustine points out in book V of his De Trinitate, there is a special difficulty for those want to combine this conception with the Christian doctrine of creation.

I think creationism is... a kind of category mistake, as if the Bible were a theory like other theories... if creationism is presented as a stark alternative theory alongside other theories I think there's just been a jarring of categories... My worry is creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than enhancing it, (Bates 2006:1).

The world could have existed for all of time, but since Philip thinks that time has a beginning and will at some point have an end, such an understanding of the world is compatible with the Christian doctrine of creation.

One might extend the reach of the doctrine of creation to cover aspects of existence that science has no hope of explaining (such as the coming into existence of persons with souls, where such things are intrinsically outside the explanatory purview of science).

The doctrine of creation then proposes that such initial existence is due to God's creative activity.

The complete doctrine of creation applies, however, not only to the universe itself, but to all contingent things, and once we consider the application of the doctrine to other things, conflict with science is inevitable when we generalize such an account of creation to the coming into existence of every contingent thing.

This is in part a result of the doctrines of creation embraced by theistic religions in particular two aspects of those doctrines.

In Christianity these matters have included the doctrine of creation, the Trinity, and the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.