Sentences with word «doctrinal»

But there are several problems with the development of doctrinal statements as a way of protecting the truth.

The history of the development of doctrinal statements and Christian creeds is a bloody mess, full of killing and war.

Subtle differences in doctrinal statements could easily be compared.

Despite how hard I have been on doctrinal statements in recent posts, I do think there are several good uses for them.

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Christian denominations in the world divided along lines of doctrinal difference.

«What Lecrae's departure symbolizes is the beginnings of what could be another great schism in the church, but this time, it will not be for doctrinal issues,» said Raymond Chang, from the Chaplain's Office at Wheaton College, in an article for Christianity Today.

With doctrinal statements for church (business) comes a membership requirement into a social club that looks only one way at scripture and halts everyone from actually learning and growing deeper in Christ.

As I am currently working on a series of posts for First Thoughts which will, I hope, develop the orthodox teaching of the Church in a more pastorally fruitful direction, I thought I would begin by sharing some of my thoughts on doctrinal development from last fall.

I've been exercising these tools now for some twenty years as I have studied and written exhaustively about doctrinal issues, including publishing a book on corporal punishment (spanking) in the Bible in the hope of shedding new light on that issue.»

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).

In Matthew 25, the final judgement, where we're all before God, according to Jesus the questions we will be asked are not doctrinal questions.

The Church has insisted on doctrinal orthodoxy of its members, but not on moral rectitude to the extent of tolerating the greatest iniquities of communal holocaust in human history perpetrated by its members.

I left the church simply because I needed to step away from doctrinal belief systems for a while.

It is perhaps important to note that rejection of certain doctrinal beliefs does not necessarily mean abandonment of religiosity, but a quest for a different way of expressing it.

Analytical philosophy is more characterized by styles of argument and investigation than by doctrinal content.

Measuring the success of their ministries by their popular reception, evangelical pastors in America have nourished millions of believers in basic doctrinal content.

A simple appeal to the Bible without reference to the historical particularities of doctrinal debate could not help me to understand why this should be the case.

«It is not, therefore a matter of debating doctrinal questions,» said Archbishop Bruno Forte, who will be the special secretary for the synod, «which have in any case been clarified by the magisterium.»

And in an open letter to Mark Shea at the National Catholic Register, one sincere but «jittery» Catholic expressed fear that Francis is «preparing us for doctrinal change.»

It's not that she believes we'll be mini-gods or something, because Lord knows we all have errors in doctrinal matters.

Barr distinguishes biblical from doctrinal theology by the goal each seeks as well as by the corpus each studies.

There are specific doctrinal points at which we may also have contributions to make.

«I see three immediate doctrinal problems with a part - time deterrent.

Admittedly, these are obvious points, but I do not think that traditional doctrinal teaching conveys this at all.

Of course, some of these subjects overlap with other doctrinal areas (e.g., civil procedure, SEC regulations, and IRS regulations), but the point is that there is now a fairly robust body of law governing lawyers» work.

Maybe not as blatantly — don't think too many in America, anyway, are killed over doctrinal disputes — not physically, at least.

When there is serious doctrinal disagreement someone is sinning and needs to repent.

Communions that demand close adherence to detailed doctrinal standards promote this kind of quiescence at sermon time.

From which doctrinal foundation do you base your position on various issues in Christianity?

We have to draw the line at doctrinal agreement between believers; there's no other way.

Yet the persistent tendency of conservatives to rely on doctrinal tests raises the question of whether they agree with the Reformers» insistence that the church itself must submit to the judgment of God and must avoid an imperial and authoritarian stance.

It is interesting to note that a major new doctrinal work should appear in the market at the same time as LEXUM launches its populist digital annotated version of the Quebec Civil Code.

The essentials of the Christian faith are not dependent on certain doctrinal systems or denominations (Calvinism, Arminianism, dispensationalism, covenant theology, election, predestination, free will, and so on).

By relying too much on the ad hoc determinations of local bishops, the Church may be thrown into doctrinal confusion.

(Clue 4 U: Recovery groups and substance abuse counseling are based on doctrinal forms of the Addictive Voice.

(CNN)-- The board members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group whose members represent 80 % of America's Catholic nuns, is meeting in Washington this week to decide how to respond to a Vatican doctrinal assessment that accused the group of espousing «radical feminism» and focusing too much on social justice issues and not fighting against contraception, abortion and same sex marriage.

We do have a long Doctrinal Statement on our website, but this short mission statement is the one that is continually put before us.

In essence the academy replaced the church's doctrinal claims with the Enlightenment's claims of universal norms of reason.

But we must try, for the alternative is only more of the same: more doctrinal statements, more division, and more disunity.

Although as an adult he rejected the Quaker faith, the particular doctrinal commitments and broad cultural sensibilities of Quakerism governed his anthropological interests and interpretations.

Seems to me that folks would remember that «the greatest of these is love» — ’ t is more powerful than faith or signs and wonders or even hope — let alone doctrinal correctness or legalism or protective posturing.

The Fourth Lateran Council made doctrinal pronouncements, among them the affirmation of transubstantiation.