But like love of neighbor, it is a
theological doctrine before it is either philosophical or legal.
Carmon Hardy (Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Fullerton) is a history of the peculiar
theological doctrine of 'Celestial Marriage' that commanded male members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints under the successive leadership of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and John Taylor to practice polygamy as a form of sanctified marriage.
He underlines the importance of ecclesiology, calling Christians to consider the corporate dimensions of
theological doctrine, including salvation, and the link between ecclesiology and mission.
This is a legally and morally wrong and dangerous concept, even when supposedly elevated to the level of
theological doctrine.
In Creation and Fall, Bonhoeffer first begins constructing a framework to address the gap between contemporary
theological doctrine and ethical practice.
Wesley made clear that the Holy Spirit's illumination of Scripture to the believer was the highest and most relevant source of knowledge when it came to the development of
theological doctrine. Wesley (1756/1979c) wrote, "The Scripture, therefore, is a rule sufficient to itself, and was by men divinely inspired at once delivered to the world; and so neither needs, nor is capable of, any further addition" (p.
The attacks, O'Connell persuasively argues, had more to do with the ostensibly 'Catholic' nature of spectacle than with any specific
theological doctrine. In short, the conflict becomes one between image and word--the competing systems for the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge: 'The crisis in the relation of image and word in this period was productive of the deep disjunction in the culture's religious experience, one that could not but affect theater' (p.
But others devised a biblical explanation for the non-event and went on to fashion the
theological doctrine that has sustained them.
The orthodox
theological doctrine of the Trinity with a Christology of two natures in one person was a result of this encounter.
Conversely, white Baptists of the South positioned black enslavement as
theological doctrine requiring government enforcement.
The volume ends on an eschatological note with the twelfth chapter, "Why Bodies as Well as Souls in the Life to Come?" by Marilyn McCord Adams, who addresses the philosophical principles that can be used to understand the
theological doctrine of bodily resurrection.
Roukema, professor of New Testament at the Protestant Theological University, Kampen, The Netherlands, offers a unique study of Jesus in Paul and the Gospels, followed by Gnostic materials on the same subject with a final statement on how these materials have entered early
theological doctrine (dogma).
It proposes a break with the self-referential nature of
theological doctrine, which has developed primarily in relation to the established tradition provided by the doctrinal framework of Western intellectual history, in favour of a theology in interaction with world religions.
Unlike most recent books on Science and Religion, which either discuss the relationship between the two subjects in general terms, or concentrate on one particular aspect of that relationship -- for instance, the
theological doctrine of Creation and the scientific theory of the Big Bang -- this book is far more detailed.
