He introduced the Sentences of Peter Lombard as the basic textbook for the study of theology.

When he became a Franciscan and thus created a formal Franciscan school of theology at Paris, it was soon clear that his students lacked some of the basic tools for the discipline.

Various elements within the gospel, including the importance of the authority of Peter and the breadth of its basic theology, suggest that the author wrote in Syria or Palestine for a non-Jewish Christian community which had earlier absorbed the influence of pre-Pauline beliefs and then developed them further independent of Paul.

According to Covenant theology God makes two basic covenants, or agreements, with humans.

His writing develops from basic exegesis, theology and philosophy to more of a study of purely spiritual questions.

Seminary training includes classwork in historical theology, Biblical languages ( Biblical Greek and Hebrew ), practical application ( education, preaching, and mission ), and doctrine ( the basic teachings and beliefs of the synod ).

Eventually, however, modern historians think that lack of improvements in basic processes and confusion with theology and law degraded methods.

Candidates to be confirmed take a class which covers Christian doctrine, theology, Methodist Church history, stewardship, basic Bible study and other topics.

Whoever believes they were directed against the ` aqida or " personal theology " of basic tenets of faith, or the " discursive theology " of rational kalam arguments against heresy is someone who either does not understand the critics or else is quoting them disingenuously.

Upon completion of the degree, they will prepare and eventually sit for the state's Board of Education certification examination. In the universities of Medieval Europe, study was organised in four faculties: the basic faculty of arts, and the three higher faculties of theology, medicine and law ( canonical and civil ).

It was during this time that the basic theology of The Process Church was formed, and later written as " The Xtul Dialogues ".

While it holds to the basic tenets of the Seventh-day Adventist faith, commonly referred to as the pillars or landmarks of the faith ( See on Seventh-day Adventist theology for these landmark teachings ), there is a divergence in degree on some post-1914 doctrinal positions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in both interpretation and application.

Black Primitive Baptists fall into two categories-traditionalist black Primitive Baptists that follow the historical basic theology and practice of Primitive Baptists in general, and those who fellowship through the National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U. S. A ..

Western philosophy of religion, as the basic ancestor of modern religious studies, is differentiated from theology and the many Eastern philosophical traditions by generally being written from a third party perspective.

Each local congregation is free to determine matters of worship, practice, theology and ministry providing they meet certain basic requirements involving open access to communion and subscription to the traditional Christian creeds.

After completing his basic studies, beginning in 1829 Gutzkow studied theology and philosophy in the University of Berlin under Hegel and Schleiermacher.

The basic theology of the Churches of God is Arminian, conservative, and Evangelical.

Already on 22 June 1928, Reverend Balslev of Aarhus had proposed that Universitetsundervisningen i Aarhus ( not yet university ) taught basic courses in theology.

Finally, in 1979 a Memorandum of Agreement with the University of Toronto made it possible for the member schools to grant conjoint basic and advanced degrees in theology.

" Prior to this time the Roman Province had offered no specialized education of any sort, no arts, no philosophy ; only simple convent schools, with their basic courses in theology for resident friars, were functioning in Tuscany and the meridionale during the first several decades of the order's life.

Angelo Brelich has interpreted this theology as the basic opposition between the primordial absence of order ( chaos ) and the organisation of the cosmos.

In line with this basic theology, all members are deemed as equal in an economic sense.

His concern for others, redemption of captives and establishing bonds of peace, have been seen as a function of ‘ his basic theology of love ’.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

This accords with a basic plank in the platform of Christian Science:

These critics state that Mary Baker Eddy's interpretation of Christian scripture diverges too greatly from basic tenets of Christianity.

* Gutenberg College in Eugene, Oregon provides " a broad-based liberal arts education in a Protestant Christian environment ", with a " great books " curriculum emphasizing " the development of basic learning skills ( reading, writing, mathematics, and critical thinking ) and the application of these skills to profound writings of the past "

The Arabs lost sight of Aristotle's political science but continued to study Plato's Republic which became the basic text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and Averroes ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics was translated in the 13th century and became the basic text as in the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Although there is flexibility in the nuances of belief or basic truths for the individual Unitarian Christian, general principles of faith have been recognized as a way to bind the group in some commonality.

Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant creeds generally insist on Trinitarian belief as an essential aspect of Christianity and basic to a group's continuity of identity with the historical Christian faith.

Eckardt insisted that Christian repentance must include a reexamination of basic theological attitudes toward Jews and the New Testament in order to deal effectively with antisemitism.

Although it came to be labelled a heresy, the movement held similar views about the basic tenets of Christian doctrine to those of the wider Christian Church.

The teaching of the sermon are often referred to as the Ethics of the Kingdom: they place a high level of emphasis on " purity of the heart " and embody the basic standard of Christian righteousness.

The basic Christian ideal specifies that peace can only come by the Word and love of God, which is perfectly demonstrated in the life of Christ ( see Romans 8: 19-23 ).

The Christian rhetor Lactantius suggested that Maximian shared Diocletian's basic attitudes but was less puritanical in his tastes, and took advantage of the sensual opportunities his position as emperor offered.

Eddy acknowledged that Christian Science healing could not be used on all occasions, and so there are a number of exceptions from going to the dentist, and fixing broken limbs to other basic surgery and procedures, but the officially, the Church of Christ, Scientist is against diagnosing illness.

The bishops ' report concluded that " the principles and basic rituals of Masonry embody a naturalistic religion, active participation in which is incompatible with Christian faith and practice.

Unless this basic storyline has been altered by Mr. Gibson, a fringe Catholic who is building his own church in the Los Angeles area and who apparently accepts neither the teachings of Vatican II nor modern biblical scholarship, The Passion of the Christ retains a real potential for undermining the repudiation of classical Christian anti-Semitism by the churches in the last forty years.

This basic religious orientation should affect the way that the Christian understands things.

The Christian thinker James W. Sire defines a worldview as " a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions ( assumptions which may be true, partially true, or entirely false ) which we hold ( consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently ) about the basic construction of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being.

During eight centuries of Christian history most major intellectual, cultural, and social developments in the Christian church took place within the Empire or in the sphere of its influence, thus most parts of the liturgy, traditions, and practices of the church of Constantinople were adopted by all, and still provide the basic patterns of contemporary Orthodoxy.