Sentences with phrase «doctrinal commitments»

March 27, 2018 • Conservative Christian colleges are worried that their doctrinal commitments with respect to LGBT issues could run afoul of sex discrimination law under Title IX and jeopardize federal financial aid.

This book provides an important historical record of evangelical doctrinal commitments on a wide range of issues.

In the current climate, Christians need to be very careful to make sure that the perceived political needs of the hour do not translate into words and actions that can easily be shown by our critics to be highly selective and very inconsistent with respect to our larger doctrinal commitments and convictions.

What is it about doctrinal commitment that causes the conservative clergy to remain silent?

A letter to the editor by Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane, published the next day, delivered a similar rebuttal: he argued that «racism is as much about impact as it is about intention», and highlighted that malice, hatred or doctrinal commitment aren't necessarily requirements for racial prejudice or discrimination.

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

Since the founding of ECT more than twenty years ago, Evangelicals and Catholics have learned much from one another and our joint commitment to biblical and doctrinal truth.

In a review of J. A. T. Robinson's The Roots of a Radical, Don Cupitt beautifully summarizes Robinson's spirituality: «One should be firmly rooted in a few central values, commitments, and doctrinal themes, while being open and exploratory at the edges.»

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

Taking the yoke of Jesus is not about signing a doctrinal statement or making an intellectual commitment to a set of propositions.

Our political commitment and our religious commitments insist that we lay aside the complexities of truth in favor of party spirit or doctrinal purity.

Contrary to some media reports, social media activity and subsequent public perception, Dr. Hawkins» administrative leave resulted from theological statements that seemed inconsistent with Wheaton College's doctrinal convictions, and is in no way related to her race, gender or commitment to wear a hijab during Advent.

In the wake of its December decision to place Hawkins on administrative leave, Wheaton explained that its concern was «in no way related to her race, gender or commitment to wear a hijab during Advent,» but instead was related to her explanation of the act which «seemed inconsistent with Wheaton College's doctrinal convictions.»

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.