Let me acknowledge a theological principle of my own: I believe The Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

"Kalam" generally referred to the Islamic tradition of seeking theological principles through dialectic.

They also hold environmentalist positions, under the theological principle of stewardship.

As a developed theological principle, the option for the poor was first articulated by Fr.

It adheres to strict moral and theological principles.

Kalam is the Islamic philosophy of seeking theological principles through dialectic.

To return a priest to the lay population is to obfuscate this theological principle.

Yet the differentiation, once again, was conducted by reference to theological as well as empirical principles.

Of theological principles he seems never to have had a consistent grasp.

In Arabic the word means "discussion", and refers to the Islamic tradition of seeking theological principles through dialectic.