Sentences with phrase «doctrine and practice»

In the end, each religious tradition must develop its own ethic of confidentiality rooted in its own doctrines and practice.

We do not advocate accommodation to culture; we regard Scripture as the sole ultimate norm for doctrine and practice.

There is, for example, the American genius for the benign transformation of originally grim doctrines and practices.

That doesn't mean I think they're right about everything or that our differences of doctrine and practice don't matter.

The notion of a homogeneous Church that looks exactly the same in doctrine and practice from congregation to congregation, culture to culture, community to community, is unrealistic and unhelpful.

Even though most students still identify themselves as Orthodox, many have limited grounding in church doctrine and practice.

Only those were admitted who fulfilled the minimum requirements of Islamic doctrine and practice, and they had to go through a probation period.

As an Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Warehouse 242 is by doctrine and practice somewhere between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which is considered theologically liberal, and the Presbyterian Church in America, which broke off in the early 1970s to maintain a more traditionalist approach.

And still the German episcopate suggests that more dumbing down of Catholic doctrine and practice is the answer, now on a global scale.

Second, an increasing number of feminist theologians are directing their energies toward the church's central doctrines and practices — justification by faith, the incarnation, baptism and the Eucharist.

We desperately need right doctrine and practice.

This is becoming clear now as you see emergent pastors and writers embracing doctrines and practices that put them clearly outside the Evangelical spectrum.

The nineteenth century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche shrewdly observed that in his day the bourgeois elites of Europe wanted the fruit of Christianity (i.e., moral culture) without the tree itself (i.e., the actual doctrine and practice).

There were various sects with their own peculiar doctrines and practices.

A friend of mine, speaking of the Catholic move to prune excessive Marian doctrine and practice after Vatican II by moving her statue to the side, observed that Protestants moved her out the door altogether.

Yet, the study said, spirit - filled believers, especially Pentecostals, «stand out for the intensity of their belief» in traditional doctrines and practices compared to other Christians.

I was not satisfied with the pat answers I was given by my mentors and teachers to questions I had about Pentecostal doctrines and practices.

The first Protestant «project» for Brazil (by American Methodists in the 1830s and 1840s) was a national reformation, in which the political desire for a breach with Rome would be supplemented by a reform of doctrine and practice stimulated by ample distribution of the Scriptures.

... it seems to me plain that the allegation of «impostor» can not be divorced from questions of Sikh doctrine and practice.

Sufi — a Muslim mystic; a member of a religious order which follows mystical interpretations of Islamic doctrines and practices.

This of course is coupled with Church doctrine and practice that Baptism is not completely necessary.

It is similar in doctrine and practice to a conservative Presbyterian church but is independent of any denominational affiliation.

For that reason i suggest people test the doctrines and practices of a religion they are interested in.

But then Jesus showed up and challenged the status quo and showed them that their doctrines and practices weren't entirely in keeping with God's heart or expectation.

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

The Methodists took constant criticism from people who believed false reports about their doctrines and practices.

He must learn more than ever before to bear his own responsibility within the concrete Church and not in a basic, though secret opposition to her, and to cope also with the historical conditions of her doctrine and practice in freely given obedience.

For priests, too, are not necessarily immune against misunderstanding the historicity of the Church's doctrine and practice either from an irritable conservatism or from revolutionary progressivism.

We must acknowledge the ever - present tendency to self - deceit, idolatry and institutional pride in its doctrines and practices.

Simply adding native stories to Western Christian traditions of doctrine and practice is not enough.

Here we are bound to raise the most serious questions concerning the doctrine and practice of the Lord's Supper whereby very early the Agape and the Eucharist were sundered,

If there is anywhere a separation between the kingdoms of the sacred and the secular, it is in the doctrine and practice of the Lord's Supper.

The Handbook cites a legitimate exercise of religious freedom» a Bolivian Catholic newspaper's criticism of the doctrine and practice of charismatic Protestant churches» as an example of religious intolerance.

I see a danger that the churches will divide between those that rigidly maintain the doctrines and practices of the past and those that enter a decadent mainstream.

At least the doctrine and practice of AE / Dalahast's nasty religion has shifted enough that they are no longer torturing and threatening scientists who expose the Christian god fraud, or at least not as much as in years past.

It is broken by anathemas and refusal of shared communion and rejection of real Christians» ministries just because of differences of doctrine and practice.»

It's clear that a balance of doctrine and practice is the ideal.

Conservative, liberal, or in - between, we should continue to debate the doctrines and practices closest to our hearts.

A new approach to theology is needed, one which focuses on the Biblical text, and emphasizes both doctrine and practice.

[7] See the chapter, «Latin Theology Launched: Tertullian,» in Stuart G. Hall, Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1992), pp. 67 - 73.