Sentences with phrase «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.

The continuity of Christian faith was therefore seen to he in the continuity of this consciousness rather than in preservation and affirmation of the same doctrinal content.

Unveiling a new work on the Second Vatican Council in Rome, Cardinal Walter Brandmuller, the retired president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, announced that Vatican II's decrees on non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate) and Religious Freedom (Dignitatas Humanae) «do not have a binding doctrinal content, so one can dialogue about them.»

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

By strong audience cultivation and solicitation, evangelical broadcasters claim they have been able to buy their way out of the religious ghetto and resist pressures to modify their strong doctrinal content.

Only books that are scripturally sound or neutral (meaning no real doctrinal content) will be featured.

Legislation, new doctrinal content, legal and economic news.

Thus its doctrinal content, ecclesial character and catechetical methodology are bound to be in significant tension with the Catholic Church.

Some traditionalists welcomed it as a sign that their criticisms about those documents have always been right, whereas Catholic Culture's Dr. Jeff Mirus immediately cautioned: «While it is certainly true that a «dogmatic constitution» is a weightier document than a «declaration,» and is more likely to deal extensively with doctrinal issues, this does not mean that a declaration can not have doctrinal content to which the faithful must assent.»

In these contexts, equality refers to the dignity of free persons engaged in theological conversations, not to doctrinal content.

The work of the theologian (when the transmission model was dominant) was to insure that the doctrinal content of the message was sound (an interesting play on words) regardless of whether the message was formulated as a sermon preached in the pulpit or on the air.

Its metaphysics is equally compatible and equally incompatible with the sensibilities of any number of faiths, and of any number of schools within individual faiths; but, if it has anything resembling a theology, it is of the mystical, rather than the dogmatic, kind, and so its doctrinal content is nebulous.

He, seemed singularly uninterested in the doctrinal content or ritual correctness of the different religions he encountered.