Sentences with phrase «doctrinal difference»

The Evidence for God: The Case for the Spiritual Dimension by Keith Ward Facing Up To Real Doctrinal Difference by Robert Magliola Courage and Conviction: Pius XII, the Bridgettine nuns, and the rescue of the Jews - Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan by Joanna Bogle Saint Therese of Lisieux and her Sisters by Jennifer Moorcroft

Unity would mean all being able to serve together, even when their are doctrinal difference.

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

And is marriage really more important than, say, the doctrinal differences between Baptists and Quakers?

There remain both «federal conservatives» and «federal liberals» (as the English Evangelical Graham Kings has put it), both groups of which, for all their doctrinal differences, share the belief that Anglicanism as a communion does not matter all that much.

Mormons are not supposed to be Christian because we have some doctrinal differences with other Christian groups of today.

(Note, too, how the emphasis on feelings allows the evangelist to de-emphasize doctrinal differences among the denominations; when referring to such distinctions, Pat does it with a chuckle.)

Organizational and interpersonal issues, rather than doctrinal differences or hot - button issues such as homosexuality, were the most likely to motivate pastors to move on.

Doctrinal differences?????

«23 «It can be safely said,» states Thomas Luckmann, «that within Protestantism doctrinal differences are virtually irrelevant for members of the major denominations.

I think we would all agree that if I had a friend who was interacting with children in inappropriate ways (I don't, but hypothetically) that I would be remiss to not step in and stop that behavior; we would all also agree that there are minor doctrinal differences that are not only not destructive but can be help us to think about God in new and different ways.

Whatever the doctrinal differences of the churches may be, the need to help people and families is a common concern.

However it does seem to me that there is a difference in how we should treat behavioral differences which are destructive and doctrinal differences that are matter of opinion or perspective.

We should state quite frankly, especially if we take the «hierarchy of Christian truths» seriously, that the doctrinal differences which divide the modern Protestant Churches are much deeper andmore radical than those that separated the original Protestant denominations from the Tridentine confession.

Actually, Katherine, a major thrust of the post, and the point to which I believe is challenged by the verse I cited, is that doctrinal differences should be subordinated to the goal of getting along in «love».

Hence we have the right and the duty to think about this new task, and Bishop Lilje is right in saying that in a certain sense the old doctrinal differences have been relativized.

But so many times, doctrinal differences or Christian / non-Christian doesn't work.

When Christ prayed that all Christians would be one, he didn't have in mind a unity in which doctrinal differences remain — Protestants believing one thing and Catholics another, and yet the two somehow assumed to be in fellowship with one another.

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.

It is catholic in all but name and a couple doctrinal differences — scarcely unchanged since Henry the 8th fired the Pope.

There is a danger that real doctrinal differences may be underplayed or ignored in such an ecumenical framework, all in the effort to achieve «mutual recognition,» as the cardinal says, of each other as equal manifestations of the Church.

There will always be doctrinal differences among Christians.

It is charged that it is only among those who have not maintained the principle of sola scriptura that doctrinal differences on central areas of the faith have surfaced.

For instance, we must let die any expectation that we will ever be accepted by former close friends who have newly discovered «doctrinal differences» that have risen to the surface.

Likewise Cardinal Edward Cassidy declared: «This does not mean that Evangelicals and Catholics have overcome all their doctrinal differences or that their understanding of the Gospel and of the Christian message has suddenly become identical.

This is one of the reasons doctrinal differences exist among Christians.

Just believe what the bible teaches» is the mantra on both sides of many doctrinal differences.

At a time when Christians were condemning, expelling, and killing one another over doctrinal differences, a guy named Georg Calixtus had the crazy idea that perhaps one could hold to one's convictions (his were Lutheran) without condemning as heretics those with whom one disagrees.

The doctrinal differences between Rabbinic Judaism and Messianic Judaism stem from the initial antagonism between the founders of the two schools of thought on YHWH.

«Doctrinal differences should be relegated to the rear and more important issues should be the focus of discussion.

The fact that we're talking across theological bounds, doctrinal differences, interpretive whatever, and it's Christ - centered and about how to better the church or if the critique is accurate or what have you.

There are many doctrinal differences that most evangelicals seem to be able to live with for the sake of unity, such as women's leadership, penal atonement and the role of the Spirit.

The doctrinal differences are usually not that large, but they are significant enough to bring division and strife within the church.

In church history, such doctrinal differences have occasionally led to wars between factions as each side tries to exert power and control over others.

He insists that current differences even between Catholics and Protestants «are not the traditional doctrinal differences»; they are «traditional basic attitudes, which have developed since the Reformation, but which today can be overcome in their one - sided - ness and integrated into true ecumenicity.»

In the past, some of those who have looked for theological and doctrinal differences between white and black churches have concluded that such differences, if any, were minor.

The ecumenical juggernaut appears to be foundering because of its chronic inability to appreciate the persistence of doctrinal differences and its failure to appeal beyond elite ecclesiastics.

Not exact matches

At the Houston convention, the insistence was that these are differences in practice, not in doctrine, thereby allowing the LCMS to be free of doctrinal disputes.

[10] «ln our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wide - ranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.»

Protestant differences were «temperamental, sometimes racial and historical, occasionally doctrinal, and not infrequently almost purely social.»

This is a difficult task, because there are so many diverse reasons for the separations, reasons going back to the time of the reformation, reasons which have emerged only later through the historical development of the separated Churches, doctrinal reasons, but also sociological, national, cultural ones which by themselves do not add up to a real denominational difference.

But the difference between them and those growing Baptist churches is that the Baptists go out and scare up some members and the liberals don't — and I think the reasons are doctrinal.

Subtle differences in doctrinal statements could easily be compared.

Even so, those who stress spiritual experience tend to see an affinity between the world's religions, whereas those who emphasize doctrinal belief stress the differences.

It will also imply that initiatives in Ecumenism of minimising doctrinal meanings and differences are on the wrong lines and are hindering the meaning of the Holy Spirit in asking Ecumenism of the Church.

It was the conviction at the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh that the goal of carrying the Gospel to the world could best be achieved by concentrating on this common purpose and excluding doctrinal and ecclesiastical differences from considerations.

When the conference considered the possibility of establishing an International Committee, it was specifically stated that such a committee, when organized, should be, from the very beginning, precluded from handling matters concerned with the doctrinal or ecclesiastical differences of various denominations.1

He warns of the real danger of dialogue leading to the dilution of confessional standards, leveling out all genuine differences, doctrinal minimalism, or what he calls common denominator ecumenicity, all of which have resulted in darkening the light of truth such that «believers do not even know at what points they are really one, to say nothing of the points on which they are divided.»

And so why do we let doctrinal / creed differences separate us.

In our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wideranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.