Sentences with phrase «as doctrinal»

The 9 - point likert - type scale encompasses several domains of religiosity including interest in religion, attendance to place of worship, intrinsic (25 items), extrinsic (20 items), and quest (12 items) religiosity, as well as doctrinal orthodoxy (6 items).

Authorities faced rebellions from within, as doctrinal justifications for the deposing of ungodly rulers took hold.

Do you include Christ's burial and appearances as doctrinal information necessary for eternal life?

1703 -92) and serves as the doctrinal basis of the movement known as Wahhabism, which has been influential in the last two centuries.

He writes, «Without clear and credible doctrinal directives, Christian experience fades in conviction, even as doctrinal assent devoid of personal appropriation spells spiritual impoverishment.»

As a doctrinal statement, he observed, «the Word became flesh» can be understood only through the gospel story.

Furthermore, each entity adopted the revised Baptist Faith & Message as its doctrinal standard.

As important as doctrinal statements are, there is a more excellent way to achieve church unity.

Tertullian is not being used as a doctrinal foundation.

The Nicene Creed and the definition of Chalcedon are the creedal confessions of all orthodox Christians and serve as the doctrinal boundaries of orthodox Christianity (p. 337).

Fr Tolhurst outlines the Scriptural and devotional basis as well as the doctrinal development of Confession.

The major themes in Niebuhr's thinking found powerful resonance in the speech, in which an American president in a new century reasserted, as the doctrinal basis of his foreign policy, the cherished political theology of America's two major parties for most of the past century....

Not exact matches

First, the church as a whole has experimented at length with this very option in its commitment to doctrinal pluralism.

Concerning «getting pearls of wisdom» from research and review of original documents posted on the Internet, versus doctrinal justifications by a specific denomination which begin with enamored language, such as «most convincingly», «sublime article», «holy Christian faith», «believe and confess»....

Doctrinal pluralism, despite its intellectual incoherence, will work so long as something akin to Liberal Protestantism is held by the leadership of the church and so long as those who are not Liberal Protestants acquiesce.

There remain both «federal conservatives» and «federal liberals» (as the English Evangelical Graham Kings has put it), both groups of which, for all their doctrinal differences, share the belief that Anglicanism as a communion does not matter all that much.

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

In a number of doctrinal areas the early Christians were good Mormons and would be rejected as non-Christian by many Christians of today.

Wells begins by positing two kinds of spirituality present within evangelicalism, distinguished in his view not so much by different doctrinal starting - points as differing priorities assigned to moral reasoning.

Doctrinal as well as ethical reforms are thus best undergirded by historic Christian orthodoxy.

doctrinal statement is the root to denominationalism, as Jon pointed out and if I don't want to be something, it's to be «just an other» denomination.

Any doctrinal statement that contradicts what is stated in the Bible will be construed as blasphemy.

As far as a church having a doctrinal statemenAs far as a church having a doctrinal statemenas a church having a doctrinal statement?

Organizational and interpersonal issues, rather than doctrinal differences or hot - button issues such as homosexuality, were the most likely to motivate pastors to move on.

I don't like pointing out other Christians doctrinal errors as I know that this side of eternity I will never be completely right and it is not our duty to point out Christ's servants faults.

I will begin to look at this issue tomorrow as we continue this series about how some churches throughout history have used doctrinal statements to damage and even kill others.

But this is not solely in this Doctrinal division but I see it also in Pre-Trib vs Post-Trib as well.

Consider the parallel case of German Catholicism, which experienced nothing like a comparable doctrinal collapse, apart from certain individual exceptions such as Karl Adam and Josef Lortz.

In recent years there has been a renewed desire for doctrinal formation from younger Catholics and perhaps this little volume would be helpful as a starter - kit for those considering the basic questions of the Faith.

I trust the Spirit to lead me as I go back to scripture, not to doctrinal creeds or catechisms recognizing that I will probably never understand it all fully.

To this day (as well as when I wrote this post) I can in good conscience and with full conviction sign a doctrinal statement like that of DTS or GES or most any decent Bible church.

Bultmann is basically opposed to it, as are doctrinal theologies of the more open and metaphysical sort, but much traditional theology — Pauline, Augustinian, Lutheran, Calvinistic, Barthian — has significant similarities to it.

If the Lord is very intentional in His Word as far as communicating a message to mankind, then there must be one correct answer to every doctrinal and interpretive issue.

But it does appear to be true that, as Dias wrote, InterVarsity will maintain doctrinal accountability by asking any staff who disagree with IVCF's conservative stance on homosexuality, same - sex relationships, and gender to inform their leadership, triggering a process of «involuntary termination.»

The prevailing winds that blew through the doctrinal formulations of the early centuries of the church were jarring nor» easters insofar as any biblical insight into a dynamic and interactive God of love is concerned.

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

The eucharistic prayer, the central Christian doctrinal statement, must be rediscovered as prayerful proclamation.

We learned in those days to avoid intruding with the assortment of anecdotes, easy encouragement and doctrinal baggage that had so often been the stock in trade of well - meaning ministry both as we visualized it and as we had seen it practiced.

Appeals to tradition become deeply unhistorical when they treat doctrinal formulations, creeds, and confessions as if they were permanent features of the landscape, as natural as falling apples and the rising sun.

[10] «ln our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wide - ranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.»

It also shows how it is able, because of this, to achieve the critical freedom which is related to the history of social freedom... The Biblical traditions and the doctrinal and confessional formulae that are derived from these traditions appear in the light of this interpretation as formulae of memoria.

(I Timothy 6:20 - 21) This doctrinal conception James presents negatively, disparaging faith as compared with works, on the ground that, belief being a matter of opinion, «the demons also believe, and shudder» (James 2:19 - 20) and Jude presents it positively, exhorting his brethren «to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.»

In the church, people of Candace Cameron Bure's doctrinal slant tend to point towards a few passages of Scripture (particularly Ephesians 5:22 - 24, Colossians 3:18 - 19, and 1 Peter 3:1 - 2) as justification for the the idea of a husband as absolute head of the home with his wife in submission to his leadership.

The priest might put his foot down and ban the use of hymns that contain doctrinal errors: the one where Jesus is reported as saying «I am with you in this bread and wine» for example.

Some of the essays seem designed to argue in defense of some claim such as this: Such - and - such a theological tenet is a truly Biblical tenet, that is, is part of the doctrinal theology of a Biblical writing.

As well as the dangers already mentioned, this also meant, especially in the early days, that it had no clear connection to the sacramental and liturgical life, above all devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and all too often doctrinal and catechetical formation were dismissed as mere «academics» or intellectualism; doctrinal formation and apologetics being seen as something purely for those of a «theological bent»As well as the dangers already mentioned, this also meant, especially in the early days, that it had no clear connection to the sacramental and liturgical life, above all devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and all too often doctrinal and catechetical formation were dismissed as mere «academics» or intellectualism; doctrinal formation and apologetics being seen as something purely for those of a «theological bent»as the dangers already mentioned, this also meant, especially in the early days, that it had no clear connection to the sacramental and liturgical life, above all devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and all too often doctrinal and catechetical formation were dismissed as mere «academics» or intellectualism; doctrinal formation and apologetics being seen as something purely for those of a «theological bent»as mere «academics» or intellectualism; doctrinal formation and apologetics being seen as something purely for those of a «theological bent»as something purely for those of a «theological bent».

We had to drop the requirement that student leaders affirm our doctrinal and purpose statement, or we would lose our status as a registered student organization.

His other doctrinal beliefs are suspect as well.

Too often Christians have clung to the doctrinal formulations of former generations long after they could be honestly held, and this has led to that all too popular idea of faith, so aptly defined by the schoolboy, as «believing what you know ain't true».

As was explained in Chapter Two, the Wahhabi movement was inspired by the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya, the great reformer who sought to save the Muslim world from doctrinal divisive forces so it could be more powerful in withstanding foreign aggression.