Regulative principle
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Regulative principle can refer to:
- Regulative principle of worshipRegulative principle of worshipThe regulative principle of worship is a teaching shared by some Calvinists and Anabaptists on how the Bible orders public worship. The substance of the doctrine regarding worship is that God institutes in the Scriptures everything he requires for worship in the Church and that everything else is...
, the concept in some Christian theologies that only what God has explicitly commanded in the Bible should be allowed in Christian worship - Regulative principle (philosophy), in philosophy after Kant refers to a principle for the conduct of inquiry, for instance, a heuristic or a normNorm (philosophy)Norms are concepts of practical import, oriented to effecting an action, rather than conceptual abstractions that describe, explain, and express. Normative sentences imply “ought-to” types of statements and assertions, in distinction to sentences that provide “is” types of statements and assertions...