Sentences with phrase «doctrinal positions»

The film does well to capture the emotional turmoil and pain caused to all sides when prominent church figures express doctrinal positions which run counter to the mainstream.

Feeling sorry for church leaders who lose everything is not the same as agreeing with their new doctrinal positions.

If any theologians have the temerity to come forward with criticism, he says, they should be like the theologians who «cautiously advocated doctrinal positions that were, for a time, resisted by the magisterium.

The co-operative effort in modern missions is significant precisely because it does bring together in common action groups which hold different doctrinal positions.

In each instance it would indulge an inappropriate essentialism to insist on having a single definite monolithic core doctrinal position.

It upheld a strict doctrinal position and argued for a congregational polity.

They insisted that the Church could not ignore its historic doctrinal position and that it had to be concerned with belief as well as with practice.

At that level, Francis is setting a new tone, one of acceptance and welcome, without reversing any doctrinal positions.»

Again, this is the doctrinal position of the Catholic Church: «If anyone says that the One true God, our Creator and Lord, can not be known with certainty with the natural light of human reason through the things that are created anathema sit.»

But when the person who holds some doctrinal position diametrically opposed to my own is sitting across the table from me eating chicken wings while we watch football, laughing at the joke I just made, it becomes a little harder to start a flame war with him online.

This rejection is not limited to doctrinal positions that are «dogmatic» in the pejorative sense of that word.

We need to make use of all of those doctrinal positions, each in its own place.

«little respect can be shown to those who maintain a doctrinal position like Warfield's, but then cheerfully say that they are not tied to complete inerrancy.»

For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in the ancient patterns of the worship and ritual life of the Church — is at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of authoritative teaching.

certainly, agreement in the doctrinal positions per se is no small thing.

Now, as a Presbyterian, I have no personal stake in the doctrinal position or discipline of the Roman Church, beyond the obvious point that, if she were to change on same - sex unions, it would make the fight for religious liberty much more difficult for all of us.

When I personally lost confidence in the methods and subsequently the doctrinal position of the leadership at my last church I was keen to leave, and as soon as a positive reason for so doing presented itself, I did move to another church.

However, she was following the example of Paul and many contemporary missionaries, and her clarifying comments offered «nothing that contradicts Wheaton's doctrinal position.»