Sentence examples for theological definition from inspiring English sources

I thought Goldwater was too liberal!" Falwell's political definition of a "liberal" would fit anyone to the left of Senator Jesse Helms; his theological definition would fit any Protestant who is not a fundamentalist.

Mr. Land drafted a letter that argued that using military force against Iraq would fit the theological definition of a "just war," because it would amount to a defensive action against a biological or nuclear strike from Mr. Hussein.

Temporalist views largely rest on the supposed adverse consequences of eternalism, though some theological views e.g. process thought, or Hegelian historicism, must reject eternalism as a matter of theological definition.

According to Jim Wallis, founder of the progressive Christian magazine Sojourners, lumping white political conservatives together with these Christians of color "erases the voices of tens of millions of Americans" who may fit the theological definition of evangelical, but who do not support Trump or his bigotry. .

In today's Vatican, "cultural dialogue" is a code for relations with religions that, by Benedict's definition, cannot sustain a theological relationship with Catholicism.

Using a database published by Hartford Seminary, a theological college in Connecticut, Auerbach catalogued megachurches – "and I use their definition for this", she stresses – in Protestant denominations, which claim to have weekly congregations of over 2,000 people.

The stage seems set for a duel of dissemblers, but Wolff, though endowed with a share of Spark oddities, lacks the weight and definition that give these a moral, in some cases a theological, force.

The ultimate goal of Yoga is moksha (liberation) though the exact definition of what form this takes depends on the philosophical or theological system with which it is conjugated.

Was it not possible to accept Judaism as part of a cultural heritage and as a part of the definition of your inner self without believing in providence or accepting a theological creed?

Already in his prize essay of 1764, the Investigation of the Intelligibility of the Fundamental Principles of Natural Theology and Morals, Kant claimed that moral and theological principles were not capable of demonstration, since their terms, unlike mathematical terms, lacked precise definition.

Instead, sticking firm to the classical ontological definition of nothing as "the absence of anything" -- whatever this means -- so essential to theological, and some subset of philosophical intransigence, strikes me as essentially sterile, backward, useless and annoying.