Sentences with phrase «ecclesiological matters»

Two hours of mandated «group building exercises» do not create mutual understanding and responsibility, and the compacted assembly schedule does not create the opportunity for deep discernment and careful consideration of substantive theological, ethical, moral, and ecclesiological matters.

Not exact matches

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

Later, the group also considered more fundamental theological matters, such as the doctrine of salvation and the ecclesiological questions implied in different understandings of the relation between Scripture and Tradition and of «the communion of saints.»