Sentences with phrase «doctrinal tests»

The church of the early centuries closed the gap between possible and actual doctrinal tests on several occasions.

Since faith is the act of trust in and loyalty to God, it can not be reduced to doctrinal tests, for they misdirect it and therefore divert one's vision from the One who is the source of all true faith.

Yet the persistent tendency of conservatives to rely on doctrinal tests raises the question of whether they agree with the Reformers» insistence that the church itself must submit to the judgment of God and must avoid an imperial and authoritarian stance.

It must be admitted that there is something quite logical about a doctrinal test: if there are essentials to the Christian faith, then we should be able to state them.

You relegate one to hell who does not pass your doctrinal test yet nevertheless has entrusted his eternal destiny to Christ alone.

Not exact matches

He is not giving tests of life or doctrinal and behavioral indicators by which to determine whether or not you have eternal life.

No longer will doctrinal statements be focused on «truths to believe» as a litmus test for orthodoxy.

Orthodox Christians have usually taken this as the basic test of doctrinal soundness.

When Jesus says, «I am the way, and truth and the life...» (John 14.6), we Christians of evangelical heritage and loyalties are quick to make this «way» and this «truth» into a cognitive, doctrinal litmus test for inclusion in the sphere of God's grace.

I had a set of doctrinal litmus tests that the potential convert had to pass before I would consider them «in» or one of «us.»

When I began my teaching career, at Georgetown, I taught a traditional legal writing course with writing assignments drawn from a variety of doctrinal areas, paying more attention to skills I wanted to teach — e.g. analyzing statutes, using elements tests, analogizing and distinguishing cases, synthesizing case and statutory law, etc. — than to integrating any particular area of doctrine.

It places less emphasis than we are accustomed to placing upon formal, doctrinal questions, such as whether the test should be one of reasonableness or proportionality.

Recent judicial experience suggests that wide application of the protean concept of proportionality would require the development of additional doctrinal tools (such as deference) in order to ensure that the proportionality test is applied with appropriate intensity across the wide spectrum of administrative law cases, ranging from fundamental rights on one end to purely economic interests at the other extreme.