Sentences with phrase «doctrinal systems»

Catholics had a more centralized administration and policy, formal parish and other jurisdictional boundaries, and, of course, an officially defined and tended doctrinal system.

When Jesus says «I am the truth,» he is not asking me to absolutize my doctrinal system but to enter upon the way that leads to life.

A doctrinal system, a church structure and other substitutes for the Living Christ render discipleship irrelevant.4 Second, in answering the call of Christ one must take the first concrete step.

3) The central concept of Calvin's doctrinal system is God's sovereign omnipotence — a sovereignty that demands our complete obedience, and that necessarily entails the doctrine of election and reprobation.

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The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

This is no time for clinging rigidly to the doctrinal formulae, the ecclesiastical systems and the liturgical forms of the past.

To be more doctrinal means the imparting to the people of a broader, deeper, more carefully thought out, and perhaps a more Christian system of Christian belief.

Did you spend a painstakingly inordinate amount of time studying which doctrinal position was correct with respect to scripture and then accepted yr belief system accordingly?

I think what Viola is saying is that many churches seem to put their pastor up as the head, or the denomination, or the doctrinal statement, or a particular system of theology, or the Bible.

They are speaking from within a living tradition which, because it is living and developing, is neither bound to a particular system of doctrinal orthodoxy nor compatible with static uniformity.

Cajetan had roughed out a proposal even more liberal than before, agreeing to married clergy, communion under both kinds, no doctrinal recantation and a liberal policy on the sacraments which were no longer to be operated under the same kind of canonical system.

The general doctrinal first - year curriculum is intended to introduce students to the fundamentals of the United States common law legal system and its major components, including regulation.

Doctrinal flexibility demonstrated by the Canadian Western Bank and Marcotte decisions violates the division of powers, introduces uncertainty in the law and undermines the concept of stare decisis, which is central to our justice system.

Legal Analysis and Writing (formerly titled LAWR I), taught by full - time faculty members in the doctrinal area of the professor's choice, introduces students to the structure of the American legal system and the sources of legal authority.