Sentences with phrase «matters of doctrine»

While there is a wide diversity among Christians on matters of doctrine and practice, there are foundational beliefs that provide the basis for unity among all Christians.

In matters of doctrine, liberal clergy has lost its moorings.

Objections from Cardinals Cajetan and Carvajal that the text was unscholarly and inaccurate in its failure to make distinctions between matters of doctrine, discipline and opinion, were overruled by the majority.

According to your own Magisterium, you are to submit to the RCC in all matters of doctrine as well as moral teachings.

On Consulting the Faithful in matters of Doctrine, 1859

Clerics of these Churches met sometimes on free international (ecu - menical) Councils, where they freely discussed complicated matters of the doctrine.

Noll and Nystrom next survey the international bilateral dialogues on matters of doctrine that followed in the wake of Vatican II between the Roman Catholic Church, on the one hand, and the various «world confessional families» or «Christian world communions,» on the other.

It relates to matters of doctrine, but John Henry Newman applied it to the liturgy on many occasions.

There are a lot of things I puzzle over in matters of doctrine and knowledge, but in the end I just have to trust God to the best of my limited knowledge.»

I would assume he or she refers to the 32,000 different Protestant denominations that continuously splinter and divide over matters of doctrine and / or discipline.

[13] This is his commentary on «they went out from us, but they were not of us» (I John 2:19) It is a point which Newman makes in Difficulties of Anglicans and returns to in On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine,

The Second Vatican Council, in insisting in the document on Ecumenism that there can be no change or concession within the Church Catholic in matters of doctrine of faith and morals, has equivalently informed us in the name of the Holy Spirit, that it is the will of God to give to His Church and to His people who «seek Him with a sincere heart» just such new knowledge, new vision, and new unity.

Matters of doctrine are discussed on free concils which are not predetermined by any lousy human dwarf (compared with the Godhead), called pope.

Evangelicals are beginning to understand that the real questions about appropriating the Scriptures are not so much matters of doctrine as they are of hermeneutics.

The bishops of this church sometimes met on ecu - menical councils, in order to discuss difficult matters of the doctrine.

It had always been the synod's understanding that matters of doctrine were to be decided only by the Word of God, the Bible.

They merely met each other sometimes, in order to discuss difficult matters of the doctrine.

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.

First, it is not a matter of doctrine that the Holy Spirit is the Inner Light.

This also reminded me of a story I heard in a sermon many years ago about 3 Jewish friends where 2 of them fell out over a matter of doctrine.

It was a matter of doctrine which had roused the query, what might today be called ideology.

Even Preston Sturges, another clear influence, when he came out against movie - making with a political agenda in Sullivan's Travels, didn't do so as a matter of doctrine.

Trivia: What year did the main Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints officially abandon founder Joseph Smith's polygamy teachings as a matter of doctrine?

Not exact matches

The doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity (IJI) holds that a provincial law that impairs the core competence of a federal head of jurisdiction (in this case the TransMountain pipeline as a federally regulated interprovincial work or undertaking) will be inapplicable to the federal matter.

It was only if those requirements were relaxed as a matter of federal law that it would become necessary to consider if those requirements could continue to apply ex proprio motu, or if they were inoperative or inapplicable by virtue of the doctrines of paramountcy and / or interjurisdictional immunity.

Our theology and doctrines, no matter how they are interpreted or by whom, do not make any of us righteous — the resurrection of Christ does.

Doctrine is not a matter of the convenient or «what's trending now» or they would have dropped the sixth and seventh commandments a long time ago.

Substantially, Gahl says: In the moment in which the penitent confesses a behavior that constitutes gravely sinful matter, committed without full consciousness and deliberate consent, the confessor will explain to him the doctrine of the Church regarding his particular problem and will refuse to impart absolution if the penitent will not commit himself in the future to avoid that behavior.

The covenant was not simply a piece of paper affirming partnership no matter what, but instead a means to secure the «robust accountability» and «gracious restraint» that characterize deep relationships rooted in mutual recognition of catholic faith and order, grounded in creedal doctrine, and answerable to the authoritative word of Scripture.

If so, future historians may debate whether the end was a matter of the church abandoning doctrine or displacing one understanding of doctrine with another.

It is sometimes simply a matter of prudence, civility, and common sense that does not require the invocation of high constitutional doctrine.

Actually there is no official doctrine what exact shade of color His skin is because it doesn't matter.

Either, like the Pope, you believe that all human beings — no matter how small, weak, or handicapped — have a right to be protected, or, with Singer, you adopt the doctrine of lebensunwertes Leben and recognize the need to eliminate the unfit.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

The doctrine of Papal Infallibility merely correctly predicts that the Pope will, as a matter of fact, never formally teach error.

In this synthesis he diverged from Teilhard de Chardin and from any pantheism or confusion of the orders of matter and spirit, or denial of the doctrine of original sin.

For it is also Catholic doctrine that body and soul do not share the same genesis because matter and spirit are not one common order of existence.

In legislative politics and, for that matter, in Court doctrine, nothing is forever — an observation that is, as I understand it, at the heart of Mr. Harris» argument.

Hebegan by asserting that «the promulgation of the great doctrines of religion... [can] never be a matter of indifference to any well ordered community,» «A republic» in particular required «the Christian religion, as the great basis, on which it must rest for, its support and permanence.»

They were also in part a matter of pastoral sensibility, with Leithart seeing the greatest pastoral danger in the scandal of disunity, Trueman in the relativization of the doctrines of grace and subsequent weakening of salvific assurance.

No wonder that the Sufis sought refuge in the doctrine of annihilation in God, leaving mundane matters to be attended to by worldly - minded men.

Being a Catholic, says Greeley, is a matter of what one believes, in the sense of doctrines affirmed.

I shall deal with this matter later, along with other theological consequences of this revolutionary doctrine.

It will be useful at the outset to distinguish two matters that the very title of this response tends confusingly to run together, viz., (1) «Hermeneutics,» in particular hermeneutics as shaped by commitments to the conceptuality and doctrines of process philosophy, and (2) the use of Scripture - as - interpreted in the course of doing theology.

William Oddie quotes a correspondent defending the Soho Masses as saying, «Research shows clearly that most Catholics differ from the official doctrine on virtually all matters of sexual ethics» (Ecclesial Co-operation with Homosexual Activism; Faith September and October 2010).

Regretably it is a matter of fact that a model Muslim is an Al - Quaida fighter and an Al - Quaida fighter is a model Muslim, according to Muhammad's doctrine.

There are now many voices championing orthodoxy in matters of faith, and new resources for communicating Catholic doctrine at a popular level, using all the creativity and power of the modern media.

It is fundamental to the metaphysical doctrine of the philosophy of organism, that the notion of an actual entity as the unchanging subject of change is completely abandoned No thinker thinks twice; and, to put the matter more generally, no subject experiences twice.

For here it is a matter of the application of the ultimate fundamental attitudes and doctrines of the Gospel to the unimaginable multiplicity of situations in human life which, moreover, are involved in a perpetual historical flux and change.

Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of things which despite the evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.