Sentences with phrase «real doctrinal difference»

The Evidence for God: The Case for the Spiritual Dimension by Keith Ward Facing Up To Real Doctrinal Difference by Robert Magliola Courage and Conviction: Pius XII, the Bridgettine nuns, and the rescue of the Jews - Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan by Joanna Bogle Saint Therese of Lisieux and her Sisters by Jennifer Moorcroft

There is a danger that real doctrinal differences may be underplayed or ignored in such an ecumenical framework, all in the effort to achieve «mutual recognition,» as the cardinal says, of each other as equal manifestations of the Church.

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This is a difficult task, because there are so many diverse reasons for the separations, reasons going back to the time of the reformation, reasons which have emerged only later through the historical development of the separated Churches, doctrinal reasons, but also sociological, national, cultural ones which by themselves do not add up to a real denominational difference.

He warns of the real danger of dialogue leading to the dilution of confessional standards, leveling out all genuine differences, doctrinal minimalism, or what he calls common denominator ecumenicity, all of which have resulted in darkening the light of truth such that «believers do not even know at what points they are really one, to say nothing of the points on which they are divided.»