Grave theologians have never been able to make up their minds.
Such were the uneasy reflections of grave and learned ecclesiastics and theologians in England, France, and Germany.
For this “time immemorial” was considered by theologians to amount, as a minimum, to a hundred years.
His disciples might still be as unwise as those modern theologians who are so busy studying the miracles as a sign that they forget to think of them as works of love.
The elaborated doctrine of the atonement may not perhaps be here, much less the subtleties of theologians who have, to their own satisfaction, known the mind of the Almighty to perfection.
This council must not be conceived as an assembly of theologians at a definite time; the name applies to the theologians of a whole epoch from the destruction of the first temple to the composition of the Mishnah.
The growing importance of the new schools, which tended to the advantage of the abbey of St. Genevieve, soon alarmed the bishops, and the theologians were ordered to lecture only between the two bridges (the Petit and Grand Ponts.
Learned theologians were deputed to confer with him at Paris, whom he astonished and confounded by his knowledge of Scripture; they declared that they had never met a heretic better able to defend his cause.
That is a quarrel of the theologians which in no way concerns history.
We ought to honor and revere all the theologians and those who preach the most holy word of God, as dispensing to us spirit and life.
In speaking of the three vows, theologians compare them to martyrdom.
Theologians divide the happiness of heaven into essential and accidental.
In explaining this partaking of the divine nature in heaven, theologians make use of a very apt comparison.
Theologians have studied and learned much; they have thrown much light on the dark mysteries of revelation; yet what they know is only as a drop in the boundless ocean of God's unfathomable being.
In his exposition of "The Happiness of Heaven," he has endeavored to follow the teachings of the most approved theologians of the Church.
Theologians define the Light of glory to be, "A supernatural intellectual power infused into the soul, by which she is enabled to see God, which she never could do by her own unassisted natural powers.
Theologians tell us that the Beatific Vision, considered as a perfect and permanent state, consists of three acts which are so many elements essential to its integrity and perfection.
He who rises above this has entered into the region of things which it is virtuous to do, but not vicious to neglect--a region known among Catholic theologians by the name of "counsels of perfection.
Besides this, the destiny theologians represented as awaiting the misbeliever was so ghastly and so appalling as to render it almost childish to lay any stress upon the earthly suffering that might be inflicted in the extirpation of error.
The standing-point of the theologianswas then somewhat altered.
It is in this respect that the exaggerations of theologians paralyse our moral being.
This view is still prevalent in the camp of the theologiansand dualistic metaphysicians.
We must, however, recall the historical fact that the formulation of this supreme command is not an original merit of Christ, as the majority of Christian theologians affirm and their uncritical supporters blindly accept.
The great majority of philosophers and theologians still hold the contrary opinion.
This dogma is still widely prevalent among theologians and other "educated" people; it is taught as the truth in many of our schools.
Christian theologians deny it, because it is irreconcilable with their belief in the omnipotence of God and in predestination.
Christian theologians have fruitlessly striven to explain away these striking and painful contradictions by their ingenious interpretations.
So also, theologians have often been impatient to reconcile the Scriptures with history, even to suggest mistakes in the sacred record.
Theologians have thrown aside all restraints, and well-defined limitations and distinctions of the Bible in their assumed liberty of expounding and spiritualising the same.
I have even heard it suggested, by extremists, that there would be more believers in God if all the theologians would take themselves off.
I know not what theologians may think of this passage, but from a scientific point of view it is unassailable.
How far God can be said actually to "speak" to the soul through conscience or through Nature so as to make faith, in the strict sense of reliance on the word of another, possible, is for theologians to discuss.
John Watson: "The Library is rendering valuable service to lay theologians in this country, as well as to ministers.
Theologians who mingled the gold of Revelation with the clay of their own opinions have been driven to correct their past errors.
The very theologians who once denounced them silently ignore or readjust what they previously preached, and hasten, first to minimise the importance, then to extol the value of the new discoveries.
This candid declaration will, doubtless, not prevent honest critics from ranking him among the theologians of the people,’ etc.
The natural tendency to reckon words as equivalent to facts, assertions to demonstrations, always gives theologians and metaphysicians an immense advantage over observers.
Two of our greatest theologians in the North declared, in the name of the Higher Law, that slavery was a holy thing, which the Lord, who cursed Canaan, would ever uphold.
The theologians in Cologne have printed it, and they say that Johann Pfefferkorn wrote it.
These were at first commonly reckoned as eight; but a preference for mystical numbers characteristic of medieval theologians finally reduced them to seven.
The attitude of theologians generally regarding individual destiny is well expressed by Dr James Orr, "The conclusion I arrive at is that we have not the elements of a complete solution, and we ought not to attempt it.
Under the influence of Ambrose and Augustine, the four cardinal virtues furnished a basis on which the systematic ethical theories of subsequent theologians were built.
Having treated, at length, on the body of the church, the commission or committee of 102 theologians could not fail to treat also of the Church’s Head.
Who will say that the learning of the Catholic world was not at hand to aid with sound counsel the commission of cardinals and theologians whom the Holy Father had appointed to prepare the Bull of definition?
Each bishop was at that time invited to select two theologians in order to examine the propositions, and give their opinion in six months.
This cannot be done within the council; but there are not wanting learned theologians whom we shall designate to them, and to whom they can open their minds.
And it is these and similar things which a certain class of German theologians of late are wont to style rationalizing tendencies.
Note 5] That this doctrine was also taught by the great majority of the most distinguished older theologians of our church, is a point which requires no proof to those acquainted with those authors.
Or again, consider the very anathema annexed by the Nicene Council to its Creed, the language of which is so obscure, that even theologians differ about its meaning.
Aelfric and John are the typical theologians of the Church in this country in their respective ages.
Thus the idea of expiation or satisfaction is wholly absent from this passage; and with it is removed the twofold temptation which has beset theologians of opposite schools.
Theologians were divided on the subject, some teaching that very perfect dispositions were required, whilst others maintained that a state of grace and a right intention were sufficient.
Nor do they yield an inch in gravity or dignity to the great academy of theologians and philosophers.
This work received the approval of the Archbishop of the kingdom of Calabria, and many other theologians of the Church.
These were regarded with distrust and aversion by the theologians of the day, for they were supposed to be in opposition to Revelation, and contrary to the received opinions of all learned and pious people.
Dupin took an active part with the other theologians of his school in opposing this Unigenitus, and wrote his book De Antiqua Ecclesiae disciplina in order to defend the Gallican Church from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome.
In this book he defended the opinion of Copernicus concerning the motion of the earth round the sun, which was supposed by the theologians of the day to be an opinion opposed to the teaching of Holy Scripture and subversive of all truth.
But, unfortunately for the author, it aroused the indignation of the theologians of the Reformed Church, who condemned it, deprived Bekker of his office, and expelled him from their communion.
Bekker was a follower of Descartes, and this was sufficient to condemn him in the eyes of many of the theologians of the day.
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