Sentences with phrase «doctrinal standards»

During the last century there has been some tendency in certain groups toward relaxation of doctrinal standards, while efforts have been made to raise the educational standards.

Likewise, doctrinal standards are inevitable.

Communions that demand close adherence to detailed doctrinal standards promote this kind of quiescence at sermon time.

Furthermore, each entity adopted the revised Baptist Faith & Message as its doctrinal standard.

Not exact matches

Schools - which sets out with doctrinal clarity and pastoral concern the Catholic principles and standards he expects the Catholic schools in his diocese to follow.

(II, 1.2, # 18) This judgment, offered in the context of his larger teaching about the irresistible authority of common opinion in democratic times, indicates that despite their adherence to the Bible and other standards of doctrinal authority, the Americans could abandon or adapt Christianity whenever the gradual working of democratic currents made such changes attractive to a majority.

It's not a doctrinal issue — we do not, for instance, vote every few years on moral standards or doctrines.

Pinnock's flexible use of the word «inerrancy» causes him to criticize certain evangelicals like Lindsell for an «overbelief about the Bible» which seeks to protect it from its own humanity.42 It compels him to criticize the position of irenic inerrantists like Daniel Fuller, who, according to Pinnock, operate in their judgment of Scripture's infallibility according to an a priori standard derived inductively from doctrinal verses (2 Tim.

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.»

The standard objection to this line of interpretation is that Romans did not represent Barth's final position: the disruptiveness of the early Barth was displaced later on by the more placid, doctrinal tones of the Church Dogmatics.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

These injunctions are the doctrinal basis of the fast - fading traditional practice of ritual exposure, most commonly identified with the so - called Towers of Silence for which there is no standard technical term in either scripture or tradition.

Nevertheless, concomitant excitement over the incorporation of law - and - economics into law faculties, along with ongoing interest in standard doctrinal and historical legal analyses, continued to dominate much of the legal scholarly world.