Sentences with phrase «issues of doctrine»

Bill Wilson, Dr. Bob Smith and other early AA leaders also realized that it was easy for recovering people to get fragmented by issues of doctrine, and thus to miss the bigger picture of surrender, grace, responsibility and redemption.

On issues of doctrine, what you see is what you get.

One or two probably thought they were the arbiter on issues of doctrine.

I might disagree with him on important issues of doctrine, but I wont deny that he is a great example for christians everywhere.

This is an issue of doctrine, a generally internal Church affair that is being blown out of proportion by the LCWR to try to consolidate the power and prestige of the leaders of the LCWR.

Steve... Try using your freedom to state some disagreement with your pastor about an issue of doctrine, or even better, an issue of love... You may quickly find out that the relationship is tightly based on agreement, and not on mutual respect between two equal adults.

Not exact matches

The doctrine of unjust enrichment allows a party to recover money paid by mistake or property issued by mistake.

For example, in the latter days of the 2011 election campaign, as Jack Layton's orange wave was gathering momentum, Harper and then - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty jumped all over Mr. Layton for allegedly violating the sacrosanct principle of central bank independence. Layton had responded to a reporter's question about interest rates, indicating it would be better for Canada's economy if they stayed low. Harper and Flaherty denounced this statement violently, calling it a «rookie mistake» that threatened the independence of the Bank. Layton quickly issued a clarification confirming that he, too, accepted the doctrine of central bank independence.

He does not even touch on what the political scientists Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl have called the «Hillary Doctrine,» promulgated through the Office of Global Women's Issues established by Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, and according to which any denial of gender equality anywhere in the world is a threat to American order.

Section III folded «unity» issues, including Faith and Order, and missions into one report; Section IV's mandate was to interpret the doctrine of the Spirit and determine what he is saying to the churches.

What is at stake are issues of principle — the role of revelation and Scripture in the formation of conscience — that affect matters of doctrine ranging from the place of the Methodist Quadrilateral in the formation of United Methodist identity to the place of Christ in salvation.

Their response has been to promulgate a de facto doctrine of «benign neglect» on the issue of continuing racial inequality.

Major speakers include Episcopal Bishop Jane Dixon on gender issues; Rosemary R. Ruether on «towards a more democratic church,» one in which, presumably, her doctrine that Christ is but one of many Christ figures (and not necessarily the most impressive) will be cheerfully embraced; Fr.

The current issue of the theological journal Pro Ecclesia features a helpful essay by Griffiths, a Duke professor and First Things contributor: «Is There a Doctrine of the Descent into Hell?»

The issue at hand are the Mormon doctrines and how they will influence the president of the United States.

• The Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement on a book by Fr.

The LDS church has no doctrine or opinion on any issue that might be called political, with the exception of gay marriage, which they do not support.

«Particularly, for this issue of married priests, it is a practice of the Church and it has been for hundreds of years but it's not doctrine - it is open for debate.»

In January of last year the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a series of recommendations for the implementation of the Year of Faith.

The Office of Peter (the ecclesial role assumed by the man who becomes head of the Church) involves the ability and responsibility to define truths concerning doctrines of faith and principles of morality, especially to «confirm the brethren» (Luke 22:32) when there is disagreement on important issues.

In examining each of these issues (and more) Wittmer steers a path between the extremes of both sides, as he puts it «conservatives fear that postmoderns don't care enough about doctrine, and postmoderns think that conservatives don't care enough about people.

I won't discuss any of the topics you have raised, but I will only encourage you to ask questions, challenge every single doctrine, and (as much as is possible) refuse to accept any single side of an issue without investigating other reasonable answers as well.

But some of these issues do not represent «cardinal doctrines» and some do.

I have to agree with the resurrection and there fore the word of God, but what issues aside from these issues (assuming you disagree with these minor issues), what issues as doctrine make the new testament something that would not be acceptable, considering that the issue is sin?

Unlike the Lutheran - Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification issued earlier this year, this statement is not the result of an officially sponsored dialogue, but the collaborative work of individuals who speak from and to, but not for, our several communities.

Reference is indeed made to Irenaeus's opposition to Gnosticism, to his discarding of the Marcionites» attempt to get rid of the Old Testament, to his argument for four gospels and four only and to his doctrine of recapitulation, but there is no independent treatment of these issues.

There is a place for the greening of theology that is the correcting of long - held wrong doctrines, the call for changes in action, and reflection on all sorts of issues in light of the crisis we face.

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

This issue is more directly about the doctrine of God than strictly Christology, but it deeply affects Christology as well.

There are still about one hundred thousand Kharijites in Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya; they are members of the Ibadi sect, with their headquarters in Ghardaia where they have schools and shari`a courts which follow their doctrines in deciding issues brought before them.

In short, when I dealt with issues other than the condition of nature, the sense of being part of that nature, whatever my explicit doctrines, had little affect on what I said.

The Fox network could not have existed three decades ago because the Federal Communications Commission still used the Fairness Doctrine and equal time rules to require stations to provide time — even free time — to air all sides of issues of public importance.

This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with the approval of the Holy Father, issued a communiqué indicating that the decision had been made «to invite» Father Marcial Maciel «to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry.»

The Doctrine - Index score was strongly related to the tendency to speak out: of the modernists, 93 per cent had taken a stand on a political issue from the pulpit.

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

The vital issue in the debate is the implication of such belief for the doctrine of God.

I do not, and never have believed in the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, so that is not an issue for me.

Internal Pentecostal relationships are more complex — with splits along racial lines, according to commitment to the Holiness doctrine of sanctification, and even more deeply over the issues of the «Jesus only» doctrines of the Trinity.

But the fact is that the media coverage of the declaration Dominus Iesus (The Lord Jesus), issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in September, was almost uniformly negative, as was the reaction of the several communities engaged in ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic Church.

In 2000 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document called Dominus Iesus and then, in 2007, reiterated its main points in «Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church.»

While I was reading Vorgrimler, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its «Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation.

Like you, in Christian circles I have seen it most often used to mean agreement in doctrine, Bible interpretation down to the smallest details, politics, cultural issues and of course «culture war» issues.

One of the most interesting encounters of this sort happened one evening at a Mennonite church in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where Myron Augsburger and I debated the issues of just war doctrine and pacifism.

And yet, the changes inside the movement have been so great, and the practices, doctrines, and styles of Pentecostalism are so different, that the contribution of the 17 researchers in this book has been indispensable for my understanding of so complex an issue.

The Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith is just a bunch of useless old men with performance issues.

Paul's doctrine of justification, therefore, had far more to do with Jewish - Gentile issues than with questions of the individual's status before God.»

The real issue concerning a doctrine of inspiration centers on complex matters of interpretation - issues which I have attempted to speak to in the discussion above.

While secondary issues, like modes of baptism or the role of women in leadership, are still weighty doctrines and deserve careful consideration, there may be a time when you need to set them aside.

Instead of looking for a church that perfectly aligns with your views on every issue, focus on the most important parts of the Christian doctrine: the creeds.

For Beasley, who left TEC in the early 1990s, it was liberal views on homosexuality — though he downplays that now and emphasizes issues of scripture and doctrine.