Sentences with phrase «established church doctrine»

As Anderson shows, all the best and true Catholic reformers — whatever their political views or prudential decisions — were always strong proponents of established Church doctrine, and fierce disciplinarians when it came to upholding Church teaching, particularly in the area of sexual morality (a main target of today's «reformers»).

Empress St. Theodora shows us that women can rule over both men and women, and call a council that establishes church doctrine.

Not exact matches

As someone in his late 40s (I literally ride the line between being a baby boomer and the oldest of the Gen - X crowd), I can appreciate much of what is said in the article, except that instead of the church being old - fashioned, I tend to see it as the church adhering to established sound doctrine and moral principles.

Reformed churches through 1500's and 1600's: can't ultimately agree on doctrine and procedure; establish a number of denominations

However, one thing it presupposes is that those who established and modified church doctrine got their interpretation right.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

The One Church is growing and unless the established Churches abandon their doctrine, rules and get rid of all their regalia, they will continue to die, but Jesus Church will not die.

The force of Luther's protest against the claims to authority of the established Church is to be found partly in the appeal to scripture, but also in this doctrine of man's condition and of the love of God as present only through God's grace.

Or, expressed in another way, to be Christian conversations on the meaning of «mission» must give attention to historic and orthodox theology, and to the established creeds and doctrines of the church.

The doctrine of the Christian Church was established over the centuries at Councils dating from as early as This article gives the history and background information as to why incense is used in the Greek Orthodox Church.