While it would certainly not be accurate to say that " Taylor's theology was preached in Finney's ministry ", both men came to prominence at about the same time and a comparison of the written works of both men shows much in common, especially in the areas that differed with " Old Calvinism ".

While Finney's influence in revivalism was important, it was Taylor and the New Haven theology that prevailed in New England churches.

In the film one of the characters mumbles that Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is " a blatant rip off " of Heinlein's novel.

* Etaoin Shrdlu, or a portion of the phrase, is the name of a character in many works of fiction, including: Elmer Rice's 1923 play The Adding Machine, Charles G. Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, Crockett Johnson's comic strip Barnaby, Bill Holman's comic strip Smokey Stover, Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, and the novel Psychoshop by Roger Zelazny and Alfred Bester.

The title of their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is a direct quote from the book, and many of the songs were inspired by Albert Finney's character.

Among the trial audience is Finney's young daughter Jamie.

After informing Kirk that Cogley is to defend Finney's case, Shaw kisses Kirk on the bridge of the ship before the two former lovers part ways once more.

A small hole is shown in the hull where Ben Finney's pod was, and has a red light illuminating from inside.

In Finney's version of RPOW, the POW token is a piece of hashcash.

Albert Finney's character, an ageing actor, arrives late just as the train is pulling out of the station.

The film is only loosely based on Finney's novel, which is essentially a series of loosely-connected vignettes centered around the circus's visit, without the overarching plotline of Stark's scheming and redemption.

The movie was meant to be Finney's next project after Tom Jones ( 1963 ) with filming to start in March 1963.

Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Albert Baldwin Dod reviewed Finney's 1835 book Lectures on Revivals of Religion and rejected it as theologically unsound.

As a youth he became one of Finney's band of evangelists and gave himself to winning young men.

They and others employed some of Finney's techniques as they sought to win adherents to the cause.

Recalling the era in 1870, Paulina Wright Davis set Finney's decision as the beginning of the American women's reform movement.

Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 novel The Body Snatchers.

Jack Finney's novel ends with the extraterrestrials leaving earth after they find many humans offering too much resistance, despite having almost no reasonable chance against the invaders.

Upon Finney's return, Rev.

This type of teaching underscores the strong emphasis on personal holiness found in Finney's writings.

Finney's understanding of the atonement was that it satisfied " public justice " and that it opened up the way for God to pardon people of their sin.

Dod was a defender of Old School Calvinist orthodoxy ( see Princeton theologians ) and was especially critical of Finney's view of the doctrine of total depravity.

In 1848 Henry L. Valance allegedly confessed to his part in the murder on his deathbed, a story recounted in chapter two of Reverend C. G. Finney's book The Character, Claims, and Practical Workings of Freemasonry ( 1869 ).

Shankly had enormous admiration for Tom Finney and devotes more than three pages of his autobiography to Finney's prowess as a footballer.

Reynolds took a composition for non-majors class with Finney, and learned compositional techniques with Finney's graduate assistant.

His opposition of fellow revivalist Charles Finney's views led him also to refuse demands that arose from a group of students led by Theodore Dwight Weld at the Seminary in 1834.

* Ross Lee Finney's Symphony No. 3 ( Finney )

Finney's mother Margaret died in 1927, at the age of 32, when Tom was only four years old.

The latter plays a prominent role in Roman Catholic theology and is considered decisive, entirely apart from Scripture, in determining the ethical character of birth-prevention methods.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

It is to this same tradition that most of the creative figures in the last century and a half of American theology also belong.

If the demand for demythologization is unavoidable and so must be accepted by theology unconditionally, the position of the `` right '' is clearly untenable.

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

Hence, if what is in question is whether in a given theology myth is or is not completely rejected, it is unimportant whether only a little bit of myth or a considerable quantity is accepted ; ;

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

Paneloux's argument is based on the theology of St. Augustine, on which he is an expert, and it is accepted as irrefutable by many of the townspeople, including the magistrate, Othon.

Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

This belief follows the theology of St. Paul: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

However, this is not in accordance with the orthodox Christian theology.

Richard Dawkins is harshly critical of theology, creation and intelligent design in his book The God Delusion in which he contends that an appeal to intelligent design can provide no explanation for biology because it not only begs the question of the designer's own origin ; but an intelligent designer must itself be far more complex and difficult to explain than anything it is capable of designing.

It is comparatively easy to agree on observations of physical phenomena, harder to agree on observations of social or mental phenomena, and difficult in the extreme to reach agreement on matters of theology or ethics ( and thus the latter remain outside the normal purview of science ).

However, as a highly original and sophisticated thinker, Gregory is difficult to classify, and many aspects of his theology are contentious among both conservative Orthodox theologians and Western academic scholarship.

With neoplatonic and medieval scholastic origins, the metaphysical considerations can be difficult to approach as an exercise in philosophy or theology because any dependencies on its antithesis, the natural, will ultimately have to be inverted or rejected.

In fact, it is difficult, or impossible, to reconstruct a Second Temple Pharisaic theology, because Judaism itself is non-creedal ; that is, there is no dogma or set of orthodox beliefs that Jews believed were required of Jews.

Translation of the Qur ' an has always been a problematic and difficult issue in Islamic theology.

* Annotations explaining difficult passages or points of theology and doctrine

In moral theology, especially Catholic, it refers especially to the view in casuistry that in difficult matters of conscience one may safely follow a doctrine that is probable, for example is approved by a recognized Doctor of the Church, even if the opposite opinion is more probable.

He spent the difficult years of World War II studying theology and law at the University of Athens, graduating in 1942.

Author Donald R. Hettinga notes that the world of Noah's oasis is especially difficult for " the empirically minded twins " to accept because in L ' Engle's theology of " a gradual Fall ", it is still populated by manticores and unicorns, " everyone can still see angels ," and some people " can still converse intimately with God.

Reagan used " sectarian religiosity to sell a political program "… the " evil empire " speech was " primitive "…" a mirror image of crude Soviet rhetoric "… " What is the world to think when the greatest of powers is led by a man who applies to the most difficult human problem a simplistic theology?

Predeterminism is difficult to discuss ( if at all ) because its simple definition can logically lead to a variety of similar, complex ( and, perhaps, better defined ) concepts in metaphysics, theology, and the philosophy of free will.

In some cases, UCCF's evangelical theology has led to Christian Unions having difficult relationships with Chaplaincies and / or Student Unions.

Because scholars have tended to use the term in different ways, biblical theology has been notoriously difficult to define.

Some critics have suggested that because the movement has largely rejected a " mediating " theology ( thus, rendering it mostly inaccessible to laypeople ), it is difficult to implement its tenets on the local congregational level, so postliberalism remains largely an academic specialty, much like preceding movements such as neo-orthodoxy.

Her description of the Oxford lectures give readers a unique insight as to what impact the Anglo-Catholic movement was having upon the Church during a difficult time of transition, especially in her book entitled, The Table of the Lord, addressing divisive issues held by opposing parties in regard to the theology of the sacraments.

All who graduate from Catholic seminaries and theology schools should have studied the revolution in Catholic teaching on Jews and Judaism from Nostra Aetate to the prayer of Pope John Paul II in Jerusalem at the Western Wall on March 26, 2000 .... For historic reasons, many Jews find it difficult to overcome generational memories of anti-Semitic oppression.

Dawkins agrees that much of theology and other theoretical aspects of religion can be viewed as the careful, even worshipful, handling of extremely powerful memeplexes with very odd or difficult traits.

The theology that Irenaeus attributed to Valentinus is extremely complicated and difficult to follow.

Scholar of Christianity Alister McGrath notes four reasons why, in the early 21st century, understanding Patristics can be difficult: ( 1 ) Some of the debates appear to have little relevance to the modern world ; ( 2 ) The use of classical philosophy ; ( 3 ) The doctrinal diversity ; ( 4 ) The divisions between East and West, i. e. Greek and Latin, methods of theology, for example the extent of use of classical philosophy.