Sentences with phrase «central doctrines of our faith»

When I call myself an evangelical, I also remember this recent period when being an evangelical came to mean embracing justice while holding to central doctrines of the faith.

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Second, an increasing number of feminist theologians are directing their energies toward the church's central doctrines and practices — justification by faith, the incarnation, baptism and the Eucharist.

These distinctives remain important to our faith: salvation by grace, not works; the authority of the Bible; personal faith; passion for both evangelism and social justice; and commitment to historic central doctrines.

So while I understand the logic behind the doctrine, it seems that with a theological slight - of - hand we have developed a central idea to the entire Christian faith!

After reading more about my (prior) faith, I've come to the conclusion that for the so called Old Churches (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Calvinist, and Lutheran) the central part of their existence is really tradition and not doctrine.

Along the way he does, to be sure, slander the Calvinism that constituted the central core of early American religion (it had «outrageous doctrines,» fostered «harsh usages,» and was an «oppressive faith»).

Fourteen out of fifteen was a substantial achievement for the Landgrave, especially as it included a long list of central doctrines: the Creator, the Trinity, the Son of God, Jesus, Original Sin, Redemption, Faith, Holy Spirit, Baptism, good works, confession, the State, optional traditions — a formidable list.

At the end of it he set out the detailed content of his own Christian faith, including his understanding of many of the central doctrines of Christianity.

Even many liberals for whom faith in activist government had earlier been the central doctrine of their political creed have recently felt twinges of agnostic uncertainty.