Sentence examples for doctrine of future from inspiring English sources

The ensuing controversy resulted in the secession of the Restorationists, who believed in a limited period of punishment in the afterlife; Ballou gave his views in this dispute in An Examination of the Doctrine of Future Retribution (1834).

It was Butler's view that the doctrine of future rewards and punishments is fundamental to religion and essential for its practical influence over human life and conduct.

This view of the importance of the doctrine of future rewards and punishments was accepted by almost all the leading theologians at this time (and is, of course, still widely accepted among religious thinkers today).

The divine legation of Moses demonstrated : on the principles of a religious deist, from the omission of the doctrine of a future state of reward and punishment in the Jewish dispensation / by William Warburton.

(ESY, 594) Hume's position on the doctrine of a future state is clear.

Hume adds a further set of objections relating to the morally pernicious aspects of the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments.

The doctrine of a future state is so strong and necessary a security to morals that we never ought to abandon or neglect it" (Hume 1776, 87).

The description of a future golden age of Epicurean tranquility and the doctrine of unconcern about the future are not contradictory if this golden age is intended as pleasing to imagine rather than promised for the future.

At 8 30 pm Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office in a speech that laid out a key doctrine of his administration's future foreign policy: "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them".

The problem of human freedom of action and a particular version of the problem of God's knowledge of future contingencies form an important part of Gersonides' doctrine.

L. Rev. 9, 79 83 (2004) (describing the history of the regulation of wiretapping and modern electronic surveillance); see also Neil Richards, The Third Party Doctrine and the Future of the Cloud, 94 Wash.