Sentences with phrase «doctrinal disputes»

Peter clearly held favor with the Lord and was held in high esteem at the first council of Jerusalem among his peers where he helped solve doctrinal disputes in the early persecuted Church.

Maybe not as blatantly — don't think too many in America, anyway, are killed over doctrinal disputes — not physically, at least.

The final category involves doctrinal disputes, where claims involve criticism of groups referred to as «sects» or «cults».

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.

General councils were the undisputed way to solve dogmatic and doctrinal disputes.

Let me just say that usually Episcopalians do not have theological or doctrinal disputes.

Missionaries had to pay attention to the faith as it was transmitted to and appropriated by new believers rather than rely on scruples that stemmed from the doctrinal disputes of Europe.

These doctrinal disputes were not so much determined by who had the majority, but by who had the most power and influence in the Roman Empire.

«These were men who had learned how not to have needless liturgical or doctrinal disputes, and they were good, conscientious people.»

In fact, when deprived of an explicit metaphysical - moral underpinning, the ideologies of either capitalism or socialism themselves take on cultish form, complete with secularized high priests, denominational orthodoxies, doctrinal disputes, and ritual excommunications all under the garb of social analysis.

This does not necessarily mean that religious believers are left without a remedy in doctrinal disputes; Judaism and Islam, for example, both have fully functioning and effective religious courts which are unafraid of ruling on doctrinal (and, for that matter, non-doctrinal) issues.