Sentence examples for essentials of faith from inspiring English sources

The culmination of a career centred upon Paris and Rome is the Summa theologiae (written between 1265 and 1272), a systematic exposition of the essentials of faith, grounded in Aristotelian principles.

We sing about a Blessed Assurance and hold intensive meetings to discuss the essentials of faith.

Some modern scholars for example, the British theologian John Hick viewing the chaos of languages dealing with the essentials of the faith and the complex of historical arguments, pose the understanding of the essence in the future.

I can speak of essentials, of having faith that God is present when I chant the holy names of God in my own practice as a bhakti-yogi, or when we are drawn together in our worship in Chapel.

"Some extend to essential matters of faith and morals".

The Rev. James Martin, the author of "Between Heaven and Mirth," talks about why joy, humor and laughter are essential elements of faith.

In a letter that Doreh wrote to me last fall, he said that he was "clueless as to any wrong doing . . . the essential part of faith is to respect others with peace and passion.

In so doing, it imports into religion modes of inquiry that distort the essential nature of faith.

This is much further developed in Erasmus of Rotterdam's humanist idea of a possible religious unity based on a reduced core faith, trying to avoid religious strife about what Erasmus saw as non-essential questions of faith (adiaphora).

He also defended his longstanding belief that only a few essential articles of faith need to be taught to the masses of the population and that intricate and debatable issues like free will should not be fought out in public.

It is thus widely held that faith goes beyond what is ordinarily reasonable, in the sense that it involves accepting what cannot be established as true through the proper exercise of our naturally endowed human cognitive faculties and this may be held to be an essential feature of faith.