Sentences with phrase «doctrine of the church describes»

The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church describes it as «a social principle» and «moral virtue.»

Not exact matches

After you described your list of disagreement or doubts with the traditional minor doctrines of Christianity you said; «Now you see why I have to go into church planting.

The official teaching of the Church, described by Pius XII as fides catholica (Denzinger 2327), though not, strictly speaking, an actually defined doctrine, holds that the individual spiritual souls are directly created by God.

Some speak in individual terms of the cultivation of the Christian life or the salvation of souls; others state their goal to be the building up of the corporate life of the Church or of some part of it; again the goal is defined as the «communication of the vital and redeeming doctrines of Scriptures,» or it is otherwise described by reference to the Bible as the ultimate source of all that is to be taught and preached.

When the teachings of the Church are attacked and their advocates described publicly as bigots, who is there to come forward to restate and defend the universal principles that underlie Catholic doctrine on abortion, homosexual and extramarital sex, euthanasia and so forth?

Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has used the word «restoration» to describe his and the pope's program for the church.

I know this was main reason why the Greek Orthodox church first introduced the doctrine of the Trinity — they needed a way to describe God in a way that can't be described.

I particularly enjoyed the first few chapters, in which Driscoll describes his experiences teaching Confraternity of Christian Doctrine at the local Catholic Church and then math in Somerville schools.