Sentences with phrase «doctrinal differences»

Whether the divisions that exist are about cultural differences between black and white churches or doctrinal differences between denominations, Duncan explained that leaders from across the major UK conferences have also made a deliberate decision to show unity in 2017.

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

In a church or ministry setting, you simply can not have people on the leadership team who have major doctrinal differences with each other.

(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.)

This implies that, by the grace of God, we still have a common faith which is not destroyed by doctrinal differences, however important.

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

2 — There is much disagreement (does God want you to live in unity with other believers, even if you have major doctrinal differences?).

I confess the Creeds as I learned them — but it would be wrong to exclude fellow Christians on the basis of small doctrinal differences.

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

He was not a narrow doctrinaire creature who could not allow doctrinal differences, but eventually doctrine became a life and death issue in the Confessing Church's struggle in Germany.

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.

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.

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

Then we can affirm our unity by taking communion together despite any secondary doctrinal differences.

Yes, there are clear doctrinal differences, which Francis does not deny.

This is not to say that certain doctrinal differences do not exist between Lewis and process theologians.

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.

You might note my comment about NT believers while asking the rhetorical question about what is Scripture clear about for NT believers (some definite doctrinal differences for a fulfilled system in which prior to Jesus strict observation of Halakah was required, not a matter of the heart alone).

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.

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 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.

There will always be doctrinal differences among Christians.

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.

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.

The doctrinal differences, while not altogether insignificant, are far less significant than we Christians have maintained over the centuries.

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

And do not begin to say that it can not happen; that love and unity are impossible, that the gulf if too wide, the divisions too severe, the doctrinal differences too great.

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».

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

If someone professes to be a follower of Jesus, and is doing so to the best of their ability, again not your decision whether they are or not, they are your brother or sister in Christ no matter what your doctrinal differences.

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

Our different traditions, notwithstanding their doctrinal differences, agree that faith and baptism, as the sacrament of faith, belong together.

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.