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| | Legalism (theology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Legalism, in Christian theology, is a pejorative term referring to an improper fixation on law or codes of conduct, or legal ideas, usually implying an allegation of pride and the neglect of mercy, and ignorance of the grace of God. | | | In Protestant, Evangelical, Christian theology, especially in popular versions of the same, the charge of legalism is an accusation of ignorance of the Christian Gospel, or of unbelief. | | | In that context, to apply the criticism of legalism to a theological position or religious attitude, implies that the accused has over-turned the Gospel of salvation through faith and new life in Jesus Christ, and has substituted some principle of personal merit or ritual purity for the unearned grace of God. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_%28theology%29
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| | "What is Oneness Pentecostal Theology?" |
| | Oneness theology denies the Trinity and teaches that God is a single person who was "manifested as Father in creation and as the Father of the Son, in the Son for our redemption, and as the Holy Spirit in our regeneration." | | | Oneness Pentecostal theology affirms that there exists only one God in all the universe. | | | Oneness churches also teach that speaking in tongues is a necessary manifestation of the Holy Spirit. |
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http://www.carm.org/oneness/whatisoneness.htm
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| | Theology Today - Vol 37, No. 1 - April 1980 - TABLETALK - Theological Labels |
| | It is a theology which is chiefly concerned with the providential care and rule of God in the lives of men and women, as they face the vicissitudes of everyday existence, rather than with the message of salvation for those caught in the crisis of sin and guilt. | | | It is a theology that seeks to articulate faith in a manner applicable to the universal human situation and consonant with knowledge gathered from reflection on human experience of life. | | | The Lundensian theology took its name from the theology taught at the University of Lund in Sweden by Nygren and Aulen, who sought a way of conserving the distinctive motifs of Christian faith, such as grace and love, without isolating theology from religion and philosophy in the manner of Barth. |
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http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1980/v37-1-tabletalk1.htm
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| | Law and Gospel |
| | Legalism has its roots in sinful ignorance — ignorance of the exalted holiness of God's law on the one hand, and ignorance of the defiled and radical corruption of human nature on the other hand. | | | Legalism and the Truth of Justification by Faith | | | Yet it worked out to be the most frightful system of legalism in the history of the church. |
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| | -FUNDAMENTALISM: AN AID TO UNDERSTANDING HOLINESS 8/2/96 |
| | It is not legalism for a church to have standards; we claim it is scriptural. | | | Old Covenant Theology is legalism: Keep in mind that the Westminster Confession (the standard of Old Covenant Theology) taught the moral law was the decalogue as given to Moses. | | | In fact, it is a tenant of Old Covenant theology that part of the continuity of the covenants lies in the binding aspect of the Old Covenant moral law as given upon Mount Sinai to Moses. |
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http://www.nacnet.org/baptist/arnapr87.htm
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| | Print Version: “Evaluating the New Perspective on Paul” (3): |
| | The argument that the older view of Judaism was unduly influenced by the theological debates of the sixteenth century is a double-edged sword. | | | What is often not appreciated, however, is that this kind of legalism might be a perfectly acceptable viewpoint so far as some branches of Second Temple Judaism are concerned, just as it is acceptable to some branches of the historic Christian church. | | | Even though definitions of “legalism” vary, Sanders analysis of Second Temple Judaism assumes that legalism is any view that bases Israel’s relationship with God upon the moral achievements of the covenant people. |
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http://www.wrfnet.org/articles/printarticle.asp?ID=792
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| | Mission Messenger 1966, 28(10) |
| | Legalism is also an action of superceding the expressed commands of God with human innovations and tests of fellowship which are not set forth in the New Testament. | | | The legalism which Jesus condemned was outward observance of God's commands without inward spiritual life. | | | When the liberal element among the churches accuse of legalism those who insist on the strict observance of baptism in its New Testament form and of other so-called formal aspects of the Christian faith, they are right. |
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http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/wcketcherside/mm/mm28_10c.html
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| | Crosswalk.com |
| | From this perspective the strictly legal parts of the Old Testament stand in a narrative setting whose design is to recount God's dealings with his people so as to give them Torah or instruction in the way of life he desires for them. | | | In short, the law is part of the covenant, and constitutes both God's gracious gift to his people and the vehicle of their grateful response to him (Exod 19:3-6; Deut 7:1-16; 26:1-19). | | | The problem of legalism arose in sharp form when the gospel crossed the boundaries of Judaism and penetrated the Gentile world. |
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http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi?number=T430
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| | Adventist Review: Title |
| | Legalism and liberalism are both problems in our church and in our own lives. | | | It seems to me that one could be a liberal legalist-as in applying a liberal interpretation of God's law and using that as the central motivation for life-more easily than one could have a growing appreciation and understanding of God's grace and continue to disregard or diminish God's laws for how we should live. | | | t first glance it looked like a reasonable question: "Which do you think is a bigger problem in the church today: legalism or liberalism?" Perhaps it's even a question we might be tempted to ask ourselves as we try to find a balance in our Christian experience and involvement in church discussions. |
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http://www.adventistreview.org/2003-1525/story4.html
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| | Obedience-Legalism |
| | Legalism is an outside form without the Spirit of God living inside. | | | A nonchalant, lack-of-concern attitude is not Christ's answer to pharisaic legalism. | | | Invite the Spirit into the form and stand with the publican and pray, "God be merciful to me a sinner" (Luke 18:13). |
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http://www.bibleviews.com/Obedience-Legalism.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Breaking the Bondage of Legalism |
| | Legalism complicates the Gospel because it hands you a list of "do's" and "do Not's" that are not in the bible but their own brand of "holiness". | | | This is one of the best books ever written about the dangers of legalism in the church and the individual believer. | | | The Silent Killers of Faith: Overcoming Legalism and Performance-Based Religion by Stephen Crosby |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0736911812?v=glance
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| | AVAILABLE LIGHT - Personal Ideologies Or Corporate Theologies |
| | What legalism really does is add to the Scriptures what is not there and calling it "God". | | | Legalism also encourages one to judge others who don't share the same set of rules as inferior, compromising, heretic, or apostate. | | | Instead of the Scriptures, the ideology turned theology has risen in priority above the Scriptures as accept / reject criteria where there are Scriptures and there are "the added rules". |
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| | Bibliography: Law & Liberty |
| | A detailed comparison of the theology of Jesus and the theology of Paul which devotes a substantial section to their ethical teaching. | | | Janzen says the central paradigm that the OT commends for use in Christian ethics is familial-based upon ancient Israel's understanding of itself as a kin-group descended from Abraham. | | | Childs, Brevard S. Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible. |
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http://www.northpark.edu/sem/exauditu/bibliographies/lawliberty.html
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| | THEOLOGY AND LIFE - PASTORAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW PERSPECTIVE (PART 1 OF 3) |
| | The ordinary rabbi, therefore, believed that the goal of the rabbinic religion was the search for reward on the basis of merit that God was a stern judge, and that approaching death brought with it the fear of loosing salvation due to a lack of merit. | | | Because scholars are now challenging and indeed, overturning previous assumptions held concerning the religious question of the Jews and important corollaries of Justification and the Gospel. | | | Sanders (and to a lesser extent Dunn) has to the satisfaction of most, established that Judaism was not profoundly legalistic, nor was it the source of self righteousness, but rather a religion based on grace and obedience. |
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http://www.thirdmill.org/files/english/html/th/TH.h.Middleton.new.perspective.1.html
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| | Essay 4: Church History |
| | Consistent with the development of old covenant legalism in theology was an increasing use of the old covenant terms and institutions to define the Christian offices and institutions, especially during the third century. | | | During that period, we see the development of old covenant "priests" in their vestments, gathering around "altars" within increasingly elaborate church temples to offer a "sacrifice" (first of bread and wine, later of the body and blood of Christ). | | | Good works and orthodoxy of beliefs slowly tended to become conceived as causes of divine approval rather than (1) as grateful responses to a prior approval granted to faith, and (2) as fruits of a personally-experienced Spirit to Whom credit would then naturally be given. |
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http://members.aol.com/rmerino/A04_ChurchHistory.htm
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| | Personal Page of Free Grace Baptist Church |
| | We believe arminianism, dispensationalism, covenant theology, paedobaptism, legalism, sabbatharianism, antinomianism, divorce and remarriage, Romanism, liberalism, destructive Biblical criticism, Biblical textual criticism, ecumenicalism, and pentecostalism are false doctrines, movements, and practices. | | | It is our desire to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified to the glory of God and the salvation of souls. | | | The wicked shall then go into everlasting punishment and the righteous into life eternal. |
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| | Fanatical Moderation: A Response to Morris L. Venden's "Never Without an Intercessor" -- by Kevin D. Paulson |
| | He can't simply admit that legalism is merely one of the church's current problems; he maintains without any inspired authority that all the church's problems are manifestations of legalism. | | | Venden's theology has facilitated the capacity of Adventists to assume the possibility of an encounter with God not contained or defined by the doctrinal and moral parameters of Scripture. | | | Yet the fundamental errors of Morris Venden's salvation theology and his view of the church's spiritual priorities continue to prevent clarity of understanding among many contemporary Adventists, and bear perhaps a larger blame even than the teachings of Desmond Ford for the spiritual state of the modern Seventh-day Adventist Church. |
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http://www.greatcontroversy.org/documents/papers/pau-onmorrisvenden.html
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| | Moral Theology |
| | Practical theology, interprets the forms of worship, styles of organization, and modes of interpersonal relationship within religious communities. | | | While Scripture has always been acknowledged as divine revelation, it is only in the new Catholic moral theology that the whole shape as well as specific content of moral theology has been aggressively reworked in relationship to authoritative Scripture. | | | Special moral theology addresses specific issues of life such as justice, sexuality, truth telling, and the sanctity of life. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/moralthe.htm
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| | The Move Away From Legalism |
| | (and here the legalism is introduced which ultimately makes the New Testament doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone of no effect!) So we arrive back at the place of believing that we somehow have to work in order to earn God's merit (something which the New Testament rejects). | | | In fact - and lamentably - this is often correct because of the woeful influence of liberal theology upon too many of these churches. | | | The teaching within these various groups is usually that while Christ indeed died for sinners, it is not enough just to believe that, one also has to.... |
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http://www.ourchurch.com/view?pageID=87833
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| | A One-Sided Reformation? |
| | Legalism is not only apparent in Arminian circles, where human willing and running are given an efficacy that we do not accept, but is seen in some forms of pietism and hyper-puritanism within our Reformation communities. | | | Otherwise, it is simply a matter of historical theology that Arminianism was repudiated by every group with roots in the magisterial Reformation: Lutheran, Reformed, Presbyterian, Anglican, Congregationalist, and the early Baptists. | | | Nor do my numerous non-Calvinistic evangelical colleagues across the broad spectrum of those who are equally committed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the authority of Scripture, the necessity of conversion-regeneration-justification by grace through faith alone. |
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http://monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/questions/onesidedreformation.html
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| | The Material Principle of Evangelical Theology |
| | On the other hand, the material principle of a "liberal" theology is rationalism, for "liberals" interpret the Bible to agree with their own opinions. | | | In keeping with the rationalist mindset, every miracle is given a "natural" explanation, ideas about the "evolution of religion" are read into the Bible, and the plain truth of Christ's virgin birth, death, and resurrection is denied. | | | That knowledge is known in theology as THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP OF LAW TO GOSPEL. |
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http://www.hotcom.net/users/gary27/Material.htm
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| | OAIM The Judgment Seat of Christ |
| | I recently conversed with a lady who took offense to my suggestion that legalism is the spirit of the Pharisees, and is not the gospel of Christ. | | | This is how fast this line of thinking can deteriorate the gospel of grace and lead into legalism, and it is at this point an explanation is in needed to show that grace does not automatically mean we can sin at will without consequences and justice being served. | | | The discussion went similar along the lines of what I had previously written. |
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| | Christianity.com Forums: Do you drink?: Page 14 |
| | Quote: We were involved in a church that promoted this "legalism" doctrine (calling someone who insisted on being legalistic about drinking (and other things) "into legalism").end quote If you will notice I said a past church, and I didn't mention "alcoholism" and was refering to more than just drinking. | | | We were involved in a church that promoted this "legalism" doctrine (calling someone who insisted on being legalistic about drinking (and other things) "into legalism"). | | | But, to speak out on the dangers of alcoholism on the basis that the Bible says it is wrong to drink... |
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| | Crossings - Thursday Theology |
| | July 14, 2005 - The Kingdom of God in Today's Mission Theology - A Controversy. | | | July 7, 2005 - The Kingdom of God in Today's Mission Theology - A Controversy. | | | August 11, 2005 - The Second Use of the Gospel in Lutheran Reformation Theology - Part II |
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| | Troubling areas for me have to do with: authoritarianism and centralization, clericalism and legalism, the theology of sexuality and inclusively. | | | As you mentioned your faith might be a litte 'shaky' and asking the types of questions you do I can certainly understand, because you are getting into a level of theology where most people don't tread; they are great and heady waters that to a large extent I'm thinking only Jesus could walk upon well. | | | Not only your friends in bible study would be overwhelmed by the extent of what you are asking! |
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http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/interfth/Questions/welcome.htm
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| | Gentle Shepherd Articles: The Shift Part 5 |
| | Along with the many new converts in churches, these struggling believers have tried all the formulas, emotional brainwashing, and various religious exercises to discover the abundant life. | | | To effectively address the problems, I must take it out of the indifferent realm of terminology and dead-letter theology, and bring it down to practical living. | | | As a minister of the Gospel, I have the responsibility to address the struggling reality of Christians with a realistic presentation of the Christian life. |
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http://www.gentleshepherd.com/articles/church/theshift5.htm
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| | 5solas.org Forum - View Single Post - Assembly vs. Church |
| | He also wants to be the ones who will unravel the bonds of legalism, bad theology and all the pressures society and religion alike, wrap around these new resurrected ones. | | | I think the anwser is simple: Jesus wants the congress, the called out, to be the ones who will, through active militancy and participation remove the stones so He can make those that are "dead in their trespasses and sins" alive in Him again. | | | The "church" does not like to hear these things. |
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| | Legalism, What Exactly Is It? |
| | This is true to the point of having persuaded many that matters "legal" are antagonistic to Christianity. | | | I shall share with you the various common shades of meaning for legalism and then attempt to make scriptural application. | | | Nonetheless, believing and teaching that the Christian must comply with God's laws out of love for God is not sinful but good and required. |
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| | LEGALISM |
| | The drunk must be delivered from all alcohol and the legalist must be delivered from his co-dependency on false doctrine and the misuse of scripture. | | | The legalists, like the alcoholic, must locate and use enablers or so-called friends that will tell them what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. | | | Most can recognize the sin of an alcoholic, but the sin of legalism and the addiction to religion is less noticeable but the addiction runs much deeper. |
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| | Theophilus: Questions, Answers, and Comments: Theology |
| | All denominations have a problem with legalism (it just takes on different forms and labels), and yours is not the only one that thinks it is the "One True Church." Legalism is destructive to our relationship with Jesus and with each other. | | | Over and over again, I see the same sort of spiritual pride manifested by progressives who tag the rest of us as 'legalists' who are 'bound by our traditions.'" | | | "I am a student of Psychology and Theology at Olivet Nazarene University. |
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| | Immunization |
| | It is worth noting that faiths which discourage the use of vaccines tend to lie outside the pale of Christian orthodoxy, either due to aberrant theology, extreme legalism, or both. | | | Opposition to vaccines has also come from some “alternative” health care interests, most notably chiropractic and homeopathy. |
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| | Bene Diction Blogs On: January 2005 Archives |
| | Groups like these do exclude others who do not hold the same inclination, whether it is their intention or not, and since we're Christians and are called to unity, it does seem a little strange to feel excluded among fellow Christians. | | | what if a certain blogger disagrees with a certain aspect of the group's theology? | | | (in theology, one who holds to the law of works) It is crushing. |
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| | Baptist Theology |
| | Historically, Baptists have been diverse people who have been bound together by a belief in the truthfulness of the Scripture, believer's baptism by immersion, Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State, local church autonomy, and the Priesthood of all Believers. | | | Local church autonomy is valued less and less by those Baptists who prefer religious hierarchy. | | | Calvinism and Traditional Baptist Theology -- a comparison |
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| | antinomianism: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Antinomianism, or lawlessness, in theology is the idea that members of a particular religious group are under no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality as presented by religious authorities. | | | The conspicuous austerity of life among surviving groups of Anabaptists or Calvinists suggests that these accusations are mostly for rhetorical effect. | | | Theological charges of antinomianism typically imply that the opponent's doctrine leads to various sorts of licentiousness, and imply that the antinomian chooses his theology in order to further a career of dissipation. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/antinomianism
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| | Well, he is talking about Satan's number one psychological weapon to keep us from living with the freedom and the joy and the happiness that Christ wants us to have. | | | Paul says now Christ has set you free from this so don't go back and pick up this heavy burden of perfectionism, trying to get the approval of God, trying to get the approval of others and trying to get the approval of yourself by your performance. | | | If we were talking in theological terms, we would say the burden of legalism. |
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http://www.sermonsearch.com/content.aspx?id=23310
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| | What Does God Require ? Knowledge or Love ? |
| | Despite all the theology, religious requirements and external sacrifices, | | | Away from organized religion, deep theology and the hard works of sacrifices exists the ability to forgive, respect, show compassion, be non-judgmental, put up with the false intent, suffer from evil. | | | But all the correct theology in the world doesn't replace unconditional love. |
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http://www.escapefromwatchtower.com/love.html
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| | On the other hand, their obstinate refusal to accept his revelation infuriated him. | | | Their monotheistic theology and legalism appealed, even inspired his religious formation. | | | This was particularly true after the rise of Islam. |
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| | P A S S I O N S - Webmaster's Commentary |
| | [CityLife Legal Info] [Contact] [Feedback Survey Page] [Main Page] [Jesus] | | | then they nail the younger ones into all their issues - the obsession with talking about sex and lust, the "accountability" to eachother, mocking the knowledge of the Bible and of theology, encouraging dullness of the mind, seperating the relationship with God from the whole man,... | | | I've been reading this book for my Literature class for a couple days, and I have been hooked. |
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| | Legalism (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Legalism in Christian theology is a pejorative term referring to the imposition of excessive conformity to religious rules of behavior. | | | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. | | | Legalism in philosophy refers to either a school within Western jurisprudence or alternatively to one of the four chief philosophic schools during the Warring States Period of Chinese history. |
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| | Legalism (philosophy) - encyclopedia article about Legalism (philosophy). |
| | Legalism is an approach to the analysis of legal questions characterised by abstract logical reasoning focusing on the applicable legal text, such as a constitution constitution is a system, often codified in a written document, which establishes the fundamental rules and principles by which an organization is governed. | | | Mo Di's philosophy was described in the book Mozi, compiled by his students from lecture notes. | | | The term "social" is derived from the Latin word "socius", which as a noun means "an associate, ally, companion, business partner or comrade" and in the adjectival form socialis refers to "a bond between people" (such as marriage) or to their collective or connected existence. |
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| | CGR: Legalism - Define it! |
| | Scripture will tell you how to live, but that is no use if you are unwilling to live in reality | | | Legalism is saying things that are not required are required. | | | Here I am asking ya'll to define Legalism. |
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| | The House of Degenhart » 2005 » May |
| | Of course governments will avoid real money unless God in his providence raises a leader of integrity to a position of authority. | | | (Yes, its legal again, now that we have been broken and re-educated to the point of utter ignorance.) The hermit could never have imagined such power to enslave by approriating the wealth of others in exchange for fiat money. | | | According to them, economic conditions have changed substantially since Biblical times, such that usury no longer has the same consequences as it did when the prohibitions were issued. |
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| | gravamen: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com |
| | In English the term is used chiefly in ecclesiastical cases, being the technical designation of a memorial presented from the Lower to the Upper House of Convocation, setting forth grievances to be redressed, or calling attention to breaches in church discipline. | | | Business Entertainment Games Health Legal People Reference Science Shopping Words More... | | | gravare, to weigh down; gravis, heavy), a complaint or grievance, the ground of a legal action, and particularly the more serious part of a charge against an accused person. |
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