Sentences with phrase «not doctrinal questions»
In Matthew 25, the final judgement, where we're all before God, according to Jesus the questions we will be asked are not doctrinal questions.
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It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...
Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.
And while I won't try to push you in a certain doctrinal direction, I would ask you to think about one thing: If you magically got a definitive and infallible answer to your question, what would it matter?
«It is not, therefore a matter of debating doctrinal questions,» said Archbishop Bruno Forte, who will be the special secretary for the synod, «which have in any case been clarified by the magisterium.»
I advocate this method, not over minute issues of interpretation, but with regard to the big questions - theological matters such as the canon, major doctrinal issues, ethics, and liturgy.
The rights and wrongs of the doctrinal positions is not relevent to my questioning, but whether rights to practice and study are impeded would be indicative of a dogma.