Not exact matches
SBC conservatives have much history on their side when they argue
for a robust Baptist confessionalism, but they depart from the historic Baptist pattern when they restrict their
doctrinal concern to the single
issue of biblical inerrancy.
The question of whether Radha was svakiya or parakiya became an important
doctrinal issue for the medieval Vaisnava theologians, an
issue which ultimately separated the orthodox from the Sahajiya Vaisnavas and marked a distinction between the Krishna - bhakti poets writing in Hindi and those writing in Bengali.
It's not a
doctrinal issue — we do not,
for instance, vote every few years on moral standards or doctrines.
The «Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian»
issued by the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1990, stated that no public discussion of non-infallible
doctrinal statements is permitted within the Church.
Most of the
issues related to the Bible and warfare (warfare seems to be what history is made of and there are usually multiple causes and interpretations
for each conflict) had to do with power struggles (also the most human of all endeavors) and perhaps
doctrinal issues of freedom related to these power struggles.
Among the best is that by Professor Robert Fastiggi who wrote, «I agree with Pope Francis that there are many beautiful insights about marriage» in Cardinal Kasper's presentation, but on the
issue of communion
for the divorced and remarried, Kasper is decidedly wrong,
for reasons laid out by Fastiggi and by Francis's own
doctrinal chief, Gerhard Cardinal Muller.
It remains to be seen whether that tolerance
for diversity will extend beyond strictly
doctrinal issues to the points at which religious concerns clearly interact with social attitudes.
Significant convergences on
doctrinal issues have not ceased, as in,
for example, the Lutheran — Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (1999), but these convergences tend to be the outcome of discussions already well advanced in earlier decades and are to be attributed more to institutional inertia than to continuing enthusiasm.
This
doctrinal bias is almost completely absent in the latest American revision,
for the participation of scholars of widely differing points of view has tended to cancel out the biases that might affect privately
issued translations.
I've been exercising these tools now
for some twenty years as I have studied and written exhaustively about
doctrinal issues, including publishing a book on corporal punishment (spanking) in the Bible in the hope of shedding new light on that
issue.»
The reasons
issued by the LSUC
for finding Beth DeMerchant and Darren Sukonick had not been in a conflict of interest when representing Hollinger International Inc. and Conrad Black during the sale of Hollinger's newspaper businesses to CanWest, are not especially interesting as a matter of
doctrinal law (the DeMerchant decision is here).