Sentences with phrase «doctrinal agreement»

To imply that as a Catholic, I can have greater communion with a separated Christian on the grounds of fuller doctrinal agreement on the few (or many) remaining doctrinal truths that unite us, relativizes the visible bonds of sacramental communion into mere «juridical» boundaries.

Melancthon was busy all his life trying to patch a detailed doctrinal agreement together.

Six years of dialogue resulted last year in a report highlighting significant doctrinal agreement between the Lutherans and ACNA.

Doctrinal agreement turns out to be sheer abstraction apart from a common vision about the concrete shape of the Life we are saved to live.

My Lutheran friend is pleased that Catholics and Lutherans can approve a common statement on justification by faith, but «doctrinal agreement turns out to be sheer abstraction apart from a concrete vision of the shape of the Life we are saved to live.»

The goal of ecumenism can not be unity in spite of differences; it must instead be to come to a point where doctrinal differences no longer exist, where doctrinal agreement has been achieved, and structural unity can therefore be enacted as a result.

Doctrinal agreement — on the sacraments and ministry, as Cardinal Koch noted in The Catholic News Agency article above — is essential to achieving true unity.

«Doctrinal agreement must come first, because only through doctrinal agreement can we know what «love» even means.

For we do quietly presuppose that unless a doctrinal agreement is reached on the basis of the present formulation of doctrine and within its perspectives, we shall cease to be Catholics.

We can only know what love means through doctrinal agreement?

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

Not exact matches

With regard to the second problem, namely, an agreement on «Tradition» (with a capital T), its hermeneutical assessment, and its binding force, it is desirable that the Tradition of the as yet undivided Church of the first millennium, especially its Christological and Trinitarian doctrinal decrees and its status as a communio ecclesiarum, be given priority over the later confessional developments of a particular Church.

certainly, agreement in the doctrinal positions per se is no small thing.

The recent shift in attitudes between some evangelicals and some Catholics naturally involves a reexamination of the doctrinal topics on which basic and continuing agreement between classical Protestantism and Roman Catholicism has sometimes been obscured» as well as a reexamination of those topics that were divisive in the sixteenth century and have remained controversial ever since.

But in many» not all, to be sure» cases of «dividing doctrines,» we now have a level of stated agreement among many whose contemporary (and still contested) achievement makes one wonder about the essential character of doctrinal conflict in the first place.