Sentence examples for theological formulas from inspiring English sources
And yet the Christians who followed him managed to ignore such advice as they concocted theological formulas for salvation and killed one another over minor deviances from the theologically correct standards of the moment.
The opening words of the Greek constitution recall the theological formulas of the early church which predate by the Hellenic state by more than 1,300 years: "In the name of the holy, consubstantial and indivisible Trinity......"....
Attempting a mediatory theological formula, he rejected those positions he considered extreme.
The Henotikon's theological formula incorporated the decisions of the general Councils of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381) and recognized Christ's divinity, but it omitted any reference to the distinction of Christ's human and divine essences, as enunciated by the Council of Chalcedon (451), and in so doing made important concessions to the miaphysites.
A study of George Eliot's Silas Marner, Jane Austen's Emma, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and Ian McEwen's Atonement reveals only partial truth in that adage, for human complexity resists being encapsulated in a neat theological formula.
Margunios sought a theological compromise formula acceptable to both Latin and Greek churches for the disputed Filioque clause in the Latin version of the Nicene Creed.
Even when differentiated from other factors, beliefs are frequently not stated in creedal form but are diffusely expressed in sacred writings, legal codes, liturgical formulas, and theological and philosophical reflection.
Likewise, the Tories' pledge to renegotiate the Nice treaty looks less like a serious plan than a formula to conceal their theological schisms on Europe.Haven't we been here once already?In this, at least, Labour's manifesto is different.
With encouragement from Emperor Justinian, who sought political and ecclesiastical harmony in the Christian East, Theodore was appointed bishop of Caesarea in 537 and was asked to devise a comprehensive Christological formula that would be satisfactory to the Monophysites and to the Antiochenes, the theological school vindicated at Chalcedon.
Quite a serious, theological piece.
