Sentences with phrase «doctrinal disagreements»

When there is serious doctrinal disagreement someone is sinning and needs to repent.

«The constant experience of doctrinal disagreements contributed to a Western tendency to make the Christian experience more about ideas than about heart - driven living faith, more what you think than what you do; more assensus than fiducia, more ideas about God than surrender to him.

Is a policy of «zero tolerance» for doctrinal disagreement a Godly policy?

Thus, what is in question is not whether certain creeds are warranted by Scripture — indeed, in most doctrinal disagreements, Scripture is employed by both sides — but whether the apostolic Church, as Newman understood it, is warranted in establishing dogmas which go beyond the biblical text (as it did with the Nicene Creed).

The course George Lindbeck offered that term was «Comparative Doctrine,» which focused on the historic doctrinal disagreements among Christians.

The current climate of the church shows that Christians need to relearn the ability to care about right doctrine and have earnest doctrinal disagreements without shouting «heresy!»

Theologically, the fatal flaw at Edinburgh was not so much doctrinal disagreement as apparent doctrinal indifference, since doctrine was not on the agenda.

But The Unintended Reformation intentionally emphasizes not only the era's ubiquitous doctrinal disagreements but also the coercion and violence of early modern confessional regimes, whose «conflicts amounted to an unintended disaster that has fundamentally shaped the subsequent course of Western history» and that «unwittingly provided a firm launching pad for ideological and institutional secularization.»

And while it might be tempting to believe that any serious doctrinal disagreement can be resolved if both sides simply listen to one another, sadly, that isn't always the case.

This being said, the fact that Catholics retain the traditional designation of «merit» regarding the biblically attested «reward» of our good works by God becomes a matter of language only, not of doctrinal disagreement.

Any doctrinal disagreements were put to one side and all parties recognised God had brought this new group into being.

Doctrinal disagreement?

Doctrinal disagreements have been common in the Episcopal Church over the last...

On your blogs you have written multiple posts regarding your doctrinal disagreements with those of us who won't agree to the eternal - life only Gospel presentation.