Sentences with phrase «protestants by a doctrine»

Religious freedom was guaranteed to Protestants by a doctrine - separation of church and state - that was intended to deny that same freedom to Catholics.

Not exact matches

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.

I don't advertise my version here but the doctrine confirmed by the Protestant Churches (see their old confessional docu - ments), the Bible, the Fathers of the Church.

In my opinion this presentation will be acceptable to official Catholic doctrine which derives from the Council of Trent and need not be opposed either by contemporary Protestant Christians.

In my judgment a reworking of Christianity along progressivist lines, i.e., along lines which teach God's insistence upon democratic dogmas and which discern doctrine - altering «Revelation» in democratic social trends, remains an ongoing potentiality, whether initiated by «Protestants» or «Catholics»; this follows, I hold, from Tocquevillian premises.

By the end of the 19th century the scholars of Protestant liberalism had fully accepted the humanistic origins of the Bible, come to terms with the scientific notion of biological evolution, and were completely confident that the essential core of Christian doctrine could be salvaged intact and re-expressed in terms relevant to the modern age.

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

A friend of mine, speaking of the Catholic move to prune excessive Marian doctrine and practice after Vatican II by moving her statue to the side, observed that Protestants moved her out the door altogether.

Yet modern Protestant interpretations of the same issue make the Catholic doctrine wise and prudent by comparison.

Actually the two have been brought together in the history of Christian thought which Professor Nygren traces so superbly in his study, but all attempts at synthesis, including that of St. Augustine with his doctrine of love as caritas, and that of the medieval theologians and mystics who saw the problem and tried to make a place for unselfish love within the Christian doctrine, really obscured and corrupted the fundamental Christian truth which was recovered by Luther in the Protestant Reformation.

The protestant responses to the «Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church» recently issued by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's Office for the Doctrine of the Faith (ODF) have been mostly pained surprise, sometimes anger.

Protestant responses to the «Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church» recently issued by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's Office for the Doctrine of the Faith have been mostly pained surprise, sometimes anger.

According to Catholic doctrine man can not judge his justification or his eternal salvation with absolute certainty while he is still a pilgrim, and this is ultimately not contradicted by the Protestant doctrine of justification either, despite all controversies, because in Lutheranism, too, absolute «fiducial faith» has always been attacked.

B. Boedder's Natural Theology, London, 1891, is a handy English Catholic Manual; but an almost identical doctrine is given by such Protestant theologians as C. Hodge: Systematic Theology, New York, 1873, or A.H. Strong: Systematic Theology, 5th edition, New York, 1896.)

The claim that «justification by faith alone» is the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae (the doctrine by which the Church stands or falls) is a distinctly minority position among Protestants who call themselves evangelicals.

He says its key doctrine is not justification by grace alone, the cornerstone for the Protestant Reformers.

The Protestant Churches keep the doctrine, which was yet favoured by the Early Church, which was founded by the Lord and the apostles.

If the gospel is the Protestant doctrine of salvation, then by definition Catholics don't believe or preach the gospel.

The first Protestant «project» for Brazil (by American Methodists in the 1830s and 1840s) was a national reformation, in which the political desire for a breach with Rome would be supplemented by a reform of doctrine and practice stimulated by ample distribution of the Scriptures.

As a general rule, however, the less centralized Protestant denominations lacked formal doctrines mandating that schooling be under their exclusive control and were more willing to pursue their educational goals within the framework created by state - run systems.

Evangelicalism is a worldwide, transdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity, maintaining that the essence of the gospel consists in the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.