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statement and Trinity
( The Athanasian Creed is less often used but is a more overtly anti-Arian statement on the Trinity.
Hardaway's employer, Trinity Sports, owner of the Anderson-based CBA Indiana Alley Cats, dismissed him from his position as Chief Basketball Operations Advisor, and the CBA issued a statement distancing itself from Hardaway's remarks.
After Trinity Foundation members spent weeks poring over the details of the documents they and ABC had uncovered, sorting and scrutinizing each prayer request, bank statement, and computer printout dealing with the codes Tilton's banks and legal staff used when categorizing the returned items, Ole Anthony called a press conference in December 1991 to present what he described as Tilton's " Wheel of Fortune ," using a large display covered in actual prayer requests, copies of receipts for document disposition, and other damaging information that demonstrated what happened to money and prayer requests that the average viewer of Tilton's television program sent him.
In 1756 Jones published his tractate On the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, a statement of the doctrine from the Hutchinsonian point of view, with a summary of biblical proofs.
He was instrumental in the development of the historic agreement between the Reformed and Eastern Orthodox Churches on the doctrine of the Trinity when a joint statement of agreement on that doctrine was issued between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Orthodox Church on 13 March 1991.
The mission statement features the Trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — as being active in the life of the Church and its members.
The logo of the university contains the cross in reference to the statement in the founding documents that it was " founded in the love of Jesus ," and the three linked circles refer to the Holy Trinity as well as the motto, " Truth, Faith, Deeds.

statement and Tertullian
The earliest confirmed written evidence for Christianity in Britain is a statement by Tertullian, c. 200 AD, in which he described " all the limits of the Spains, and the diverse nations of the Gauls, and the haunts of the Britons, inaccessible to the Romans, but subjugated to Christ ".
The rule of faith, however, seems to be also applied by Tertullian to some distinct formula of doctrine, and he gives a succinct statement of the Christian faith under this term ( De praescriptione, xiii ).
The statement " Credo quia absurdum " (" I believe because it is absurd "), often attributed to Tertullian, is sometimes cited as an example of such a view in the Church Fathers, but this appears to be a misquotation from Tertullian's De Carne Christi ( On the Flesh of Christ
Commonly unaccepted, we cannot know the accuracy of this statement, since it is delivered by his orthodox adversary Tertullian, but according to a tradition reported in the late fourth century by Epiphanius, he withdrew to Cyprus, where he continued to teach and draw adherents.
The statement " Credo quia absurdum " (" I believe because it is absurd ") is attributed to Tertullian from De Carne Christi, as translated by philosopher Voltaire.

statement and was
I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
This was a profound statement.
In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.
The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad had received some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but that it was difficult to imagine what could balance a job for life.
This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.
Frederick Seward said his father was sleeping, and then went through a pantomime at his father's door, to prove the statement.
Petitioner was not denied due process in the administrative proceedings, because the statement in question was in his file, to which he had access, and he had opportunities to rebut it both before the hearing officer of the Department of Justice and before the appeal board.
In his answer thereto, he advised the Board that he had made no such statement in 1956, and asserted that his only claim to `` pioneering '' was in 1952.
But the statement of the local board attributing this claim to petitioner was in his file.
Petitioner knew that the Department's recommendation was based not on the hearing officer's report but on the statement of the local board in his file.
Richard S. Allen is the authority for the statement that the northern section was probably roofed by 1810.
For instance, the following statement was rated low in compulsivity, `` She's naturally quite neat about things, but it doesn't bother her at all if her room gets messy.
But neither was the statement empirical, for goodness was not a quality like red or squeaky that could be seen or heard.
The one- or two-digit number of the index word or electronic switch was used in the operand of an EQU statement, e.g.,
If the symbolic name or actual address of an index word or electronic switch appears or is included in the operand of an XRELEASE or SRELEASE statement ( see page 101 ), the specified index word or electronic switch will again be made available, regardless of the method by which it was reserved.
When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.
If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??
The statement was effective.
`` We were brought up that way '' was one statement which won general assent.
Her statement certainly was true ; ;

statement and Nicene
:( b ) The Apostles ' Creed, as the Baptismal Symbol ; and the Nicene Creed, as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith.
The third Ecumenical Council ( Council of Ephesus of 431 ) reaffirmed the original 325 version of the Nicene Creed and declared that " it is unlawful for any man to bring forward, or to write, or to compose a different ( – more accurately translated as used by the Council to mean “ different ,” “ contradictory ,” and not “ another ”) Faith as a rival to that established by the holy Fathers assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa " ( i. e. the 325 creed ) This statement has been interpreted as a prohibition against changing this creed or composing others, but not all accept this interpretation.
In addition to the denominational statement of faith, the church adheres to the following historic confessions: the Apostles ' Creed, Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, the Augsburg Confession, and Luther's Small Catechism.
In tone and approach, this section is reminiscent of the Augsburg Confession, a 1530 document written primarily by Philip Melanchthon throughout which he had maintained a strong emphasis that the reforming movement was no new sect or cult and had added no new or heretical doctrines: “ Our churches dissent in no article of the faith from the Church Catholic, but only omit some abuses which are new, and which have been erroneously accepted by the corruption of the times .” In this spirit, the Apology begins its statement of doctrine in its second section with an exposition and affirmation of the Nicene Creed.
Although it deals with Jesus, this book is not primarily a work of Biblical scholarship, but a rigorous secular investigation of early Christianity prior to the 4th century CE, when direct political intervention by the Roman Emperor Constantine forced various competing Christian sects to unify under a statement of faith ( the Nicene Creed ).

statement and doctrine
The Athanasian Creed ( Quicumque vult ) is a Christian statement of belief, focusing on Trinitarian doctrine and Christology.
In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.
This statement reflects Mrs. Eddy's doctrine regarding the uniqueness, unity, and individuality of Christ Jesus ' eternal, spiritual identity.
Robert Filmer ’ s Patriarcha: or the Natural Power of Kings, which had been written before the English Civil War, became accepted as the statement of their doctrine.
The Athanasian Creed ( Quicumque vult ) is a Christian statement of belief, focusing on Trinitarian doctrine and Christology.
The French prelate Bossuet made a classic statement of the doctrine of divine right in a sermon preached before King Louis XIV:
( classic statement of Stalinist doctrine )
The death of God, in particular the statement that " we killed him ", is similar to the self-dissolution of Christian doctrine: due to the advances of the sciences, which for Nietzsche show that man is the product of evolution, that earth has no special place among the stars and that history is not progressive, the Christian notion of God can no longer serve as a basis for a morality.
Although commonly thought of as a unified statement of doctrine by the two reformers, Luther did not conceal his dissatisfaction with the irenic tone of the confession.
The Preliminary Note of Explanation did not in fact alter the value of the statement on collegiality in the text of Lumen Gentium: it " strengthened the adherence to the doctrine of the First Vatican Council on the primacy, but it did not subsequently strike out anything from the direct divine origin of the episcopal office and its function, and the responsibility of the College of Bishops for the Universal Church.
Edmund Barton, the prime minister, argued in support of the Bill with the following statement: " The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
This document is often cited as the definitive statement of the doctrine.
A foreign policy doctrine is a general statement of foreign policy and belief system through a doctrine.
The Castle doctrine originates from Coke's statement in the Third Institutes that " A man's home is his castle – for where shall he be safe if it not be in his house?
To harmonize the Biblical statement of the creation " ex nihilo " with the doctrine of the primordial elements, the Sefer Yetzirah assumes a double creation, one ideal and the other real.
“ The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I approved ... and the publication of which I today order by virtue of my Apostolic Authority, is a statement of the Church's faith and of catholic doctrine, attested to or illumined by Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic Tradition and the Church's Magisterium.
* Confession of faith, a statement of doctrine
Pope Benedict XVI has contrasted the " hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture " which many traditionalists ( and modernists alike ) apply to the Council with the " hermeneutic of reform " put forward by the Church authorities, quoting with approval Pope John XXIII's statement that the Council was intended to " transmit < nowiki ></ nowiki > doctrine, pure and integral, without any attenuation or distortion ".
Miriam Lichtheim describes the hymn as " a beautiful statement of the doctrine of the One God.
A Confession of Faith was adopted in 1815 ( similar to one written by Otterbein in 1789 ), and it has remained the statement of church doctrine to the present.
The commission proposed adding several more confessions as doctrinal guides ( as opposed to a strictly-enforced " system of Scriptural doctrine ," as Westminster was historically conceived ) in the UPCUSA Book of Confessions ; it also developed a new statement of beliefs, the Confession of 1967, which was heavily influenced by the biblical theology movement of the mid-20th century.

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