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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prescind.

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  • Secondly, if one prescinds from the faith of the Apostles, the testimony of the New Testament does not furnish a certain argument for the fact of the Resurrection.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Secondly, if one prescinds from the faith of the Apostles, the testimony of the New Testament does not furnish a certain argument for the fact of the Resurrection.

    [christianity] is fair discussion possible [5] 2009

  • It means to oppose to each other two different ways of reading both the Old and the New Testament: the way that prescinds from Christ and the way that, instead, judges everything in the light of Christ.

    Archive 2008-03-09 papabear 2008

  • Having read Teilhard extensively in college, I agree with the monitum, which explicitly prescinds from "questions of the positive sciences" and focuses strictly on theology.

    Freedom, evolution, and original sin Mike L 2007

  • But worse still, by applying the VC in a way that prescinds from the question which communion is the Church, it can yield only private judgment.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Mike L 2007

  • But worse still, by applying the VC in a way that prescinds from the question which communion is the Church, it can yield only private judgment.

    Progressing to ecclesiological debate Mike L 2007

  • Having read Teilhard extensively in college, I agree with the monitum, which explicitly prescinds from "questions of the positive sciences" and focuses strictly on theology.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Mike L 2007

  • Variously called higher criticism ', historical criticism', biblical criticism ', or historical critical scholarship', this variety of scripture scholarship brackets or prescinds from what is known by faith and aims to proceed scientifically ', strictly on the basis of reason; I shall call it historical biblical criticism' -- HBC for short.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • Meier aims to be Duhemian, or anyway Spinozistic: "My method follows a simple rule: it prescinds from what Christian faith or later Church teaching says about Jesus, without either affirming or denying such claims" (p. 1).

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • Secondly, if one prescinds from the faith of the Apostles, the testimony of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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