Sentences with phrase «christian doctrine of the church»

In the third and last volume of his Dogmatics, The Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith and the Consummation, his basic hermeneutic principle is evident in the way he treats faith in the context of the ekklesia, the ekklesia being the presupposition of faith.

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They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the cChurch — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the churchchurch.

The Mormons got this right, and as explained in Corinthians, the modern christian churches have lost the principle of baptism for the dead... and ultimately lost the doctrine of a just God.

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

He is the author of Waking From Doctrinal Amnesia: The Healing of Doctrine in the United Methodist Church (1995) and Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology from the Fathers to Feminism, just out from Clarendon / Oxford University Press.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

The Reformation introduce a wave of man - made false doctrine (the most degenerate of all being Calvinism - TULIP) It is IMPOSSIBLE to be in a church and practice Christian faith.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couChurch has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couchurch councils.

West Western churches became guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

If you think the bible is enough, just look at the hundreds of traditional - Christian churches that read from one bible, yet teach hundreds of different doctrines, which confuses us as to which interpretation is the truth.

A lot of churches believe in order to be considered a true Christian, you have to also accept the doctrine of the Trinity.

How do you know that this wasn't part of God's judgment for splitting up the Christian body through denominations, creating structures that we call «church» and creating doctrine that isn't even biblical?

Most disagree with the practices, interpretation and doctrine of the other sects and many consider anyone who isn't in their particular church as «not true Christians».

Darby's doctrine that the church is a «mere parenthesis» enables Christians to minimize the role of the global church and to ignore or openly despise Palestinian Christians.

Christians are still the dominant religion, the wall of separation is still in place and, as Doc pointed out below, for countries where gay marriage is already legal, «NONE of those countries has a church been mandated to perform ceremonies that run counter to their doctrine.»

The Christian Zionist distortions of historic evangelical and orthodox theology must be debated and confronted primarily by evangelicals but also by mainline Protestants, whose churches sometimes absorb these doctrines.

Convoked by Pope John XXIII, the council engaged in a twofold movement of ressourcement (a return to the often - neglected sources of the Christian tradition) and aggiornamento (an updating of the church's life and doctrine in response to the times).

The Two Kingdoms Doctrine originates in Martin Luther's 1518 tract, «Two Kinds of Righteousness,» though before that it has resonance with Augustine's City of God, which had influenced Christian church - state relations in the West for a millennium.

Although all of them were members of churches, they found my description of the Christian life as centered on giving and sharing strange — it is not a doctrine or a feeling but a way of living together with others.

Out of this synthesis and vision of Man will — indeed must — arise the doctrine and philosophy of love traditional to the Catholic Christian Church.

• «What is the biblical view and Christian experience of the operation of the Holy Spirit, and is it right and helpful to understand the work of God outside the Church in terms of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit?»

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

no wonder you have thousands of them and new ones appearing by the minute.This violates christian doctrine of unity in the church that was the only one created by Jesus Christ himself - the Catholic Cchurch that was the only one created by Jesus Christ himself - the Catholic ChurchChurch!

On the other hand, Professor Martin Werner has studied the evidence for this supposed influence of «Paulinism» upon the Gospel of Mark, and concludes that instead of «Paulinism» Mark presupposes only the common Christianity, the generally accepted Christian doctrine, of the Gentile churches at the middle of the first century.

This sort of definition of faith is surely a caricature of any Christian position, but it is totally opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church:

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

Furthermore we need a ecu - menical council of the Christian Churches in order to restore the good old doctrine and the good old church.

Until the rise of the creationist movement amongst southern baptists over the last couple of centuries, belief in a 6000 year old earth was never doctrine in any christian church.

And the Church must be allowed to be true to herself — to preach Christian doctrine and Christian morality, in and out of season.

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.

Understanding Hinduism can help Christians recover their mystical traditions and allow the Church to communicate with people today at the level of experience rather doctrine.

The danger is this, to put it bluntly, that many Christians are tempted to believe no longer in the infallibility oi the Church's doctrine and to make light oi its directives for the life and practice of the individual as well as of the Church.

The proof of panthrotheistic was the establishment of the monotheistic religion, Jesus Christ was the God whose religion had convinced the roman emperor to decree that the Roman Empire had to adapt Christianity as it's official religion, paving the way for science to grow or proliferate and in the church era, because of the fast growth of science in the Christian world.But we are now at the crossroad of change, Christian doctrine is now in conflict with modern science, so it has to evolve to panthrotheism, the future religion

I am learning that I can not teach christian theology constructively unless I am aware that, historically, the church has done much to damage women, Jews, people of color and the whole inhabited earth; and unless, as a christian, I am learning how our doctrine, discipline and worship continue to reflect and contribute to this abuse of power.

Two things: (1) that I place myself firmly and staunchly within the Church and the Christian faith; and (2) that I am firmly and staunchly convinced that much of what the Church has taught as doctrine for most of its twenty centuries, and much of what constitutes orthodox belief today, is just plain wrong.

To them precisely the unshakable immutability of the Church's doctrine and life seemed a decisive characteristic of the Catholic Church in contrast both to other Christian denominations and to the spirit of the age generally.

By means of ecclesiastical history it is possible to prove that there was always a Christian Church with a certain clearly defined doctrine.

According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

He thought that it was possible to strip away the metaphysical doctrines of the church fathers and the mythological stories of the first Christians to reach a Lord whose impact would transform modern lives.

The doctrine produces outward Christian activity - an informal code on what is «Christian» life - style (the agreed points of which are nevertheless being whittled down with each passing year), Christian activity in and out of church, and a Christian empire with organs of entertainment, education, and political influence - but it does not necessarily produce Christians who are, at the roots of their being, Christian.

Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type of Christian for white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in love with Mitt Romney the Mormon, of which most of these churches have preached against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type of doctrine.

Christians, Catholic, evangelical Christians and Pentecostal Christians all believe in the Trinity; that's the historic doctrine of the church, that God is three - in - one.

As one studies the constitutive elements of a classical eucharistic prayer, for example; Christian doctrine, church history and one's knowledge of people are fused.

While there is some truth to this, he certainly goes beyond Calvin when he addresses contemporary Protestant theology and claims that «Christian doctrine should be conceived, delimited, and developed on behalf of the church's formation program.»

Holiness churches, largely a product of the Methodist tradition, follow those who in the ethos of the 19th century camp meeting preserved a variation of the Wesleyan doctrine of «Christian perfection,» emphasizing a postconversion experience of «entire sanctification.»

Personal religious experience, the home, other religions, church membership, missions, the Scriptures, doctrine, Christian action, the ecumenical movement, church history, Methodist heritage, evangelism, and Christian education — each of these is considered and thoughtfully interpreted from the Christian viewpoint, book by book.

We could believe Christian doctrines because they came in undistorted form from God, through divinely inspired prophets and the Son of God himself, and then (to us) through infallibly inspired scriptures and possibly an infallibly inspired church.

We have known each other for about two years, and though we agree on many basic doctrines of Christianity, we don't agree on everything, and we definitely do not see eye to eye on some central Christian practices like baptism, the Lord's Supper, and church attendance.

The result of the print culture church adopting the expectation that all Christians would agree to exactly the same doctrine resulted in the shattering of Christian fellowship and some bloodshed.