Sentences with phrase «not doctrine»

It is the intention, not the doctrine of what is there that has the real value, at least to me.

The Court of Appeal found rectification is not a doctrine that allows a court to revise a party's document simply because it has produced unanticipated adverse consequences.

Climate scepticism does not offer a perspective on the world from which follow moral imperatives, and climate scepticism is not a doctrine, around which climate sceptics wish to organise society.

I mean not doctrine, corruption in the Catholic Church, and a budding nationalism — but the pulpit, the Bible, and the printed word.

I know it is not doctrine.

Hence, it was not the doctrine of the new man which was predominant in the New England Puritan concept of conversion but rather the doctrine of the converted man as a recruit for both congregation and community.

One of Kasper's arguments is that receiving communion is a question of practice or discipline and not a doctrine of the church and is therefore open to change.

The church's stand on abortion is a «moral teaching» — it is not a doctrine of faith.

The incarnation (not the doctrine but the fact) is precisely about how the Judge became the Friend; how God took our side, stood with us and finally for us.

One of her pet themes, to which she returns time and again, is that the modern Christian focus on orthodoxy is mistaken and anti-historical, because historically it has been ritual and practice that have been at the heart of the Christian community, not doctrine.

After reading more about my (prior) faith, I've come to the conclusion that for the so called Old Churches (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Calvinist, and Lutheran) the central part of their existence is really tradition and not doctrine.

I think that the thing which troubles me most about doctrines like this one is not the doctrine itself.

This is also why evolution is only a THEORY and not their doctrine.

God's word is not some doctrine God reveals, but God giving his word.

On the other hand, his doctrine of causal influence is not a doctrine of total determination of the effect by the causes.

ANY DOCTRINE THAT TELLS PEOPLE IT IS OK TO STAY IN THEIR SINS IS NOT THE DOCTRINE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

But that's not doctrine — that's discipline.

Though criticized for departing from Church tradition (not doctrine), Francis did so because he wanted to bring hope to sinners scorned by society, and his actions accomplished just that.

Hence, to deal properly with Hegel, whose organismic understanding of reality is grounded in the analysis of macroscopic organisms, the true point of comparison should be the Whiteheadian notion of a society, not the doctrine of actual entities.

It is not the doctrine of the virgin birth that led the evangelist to Is.

Neuhaus, I think, implicitly concedes that the danger of recidivism, and not the doctrine of redemption, is the real issue when he acknowledges the need to argue that «there is not a scintilla of evidence that a person who did a stupidly wicked thing many years ago and is repentant and has rendered decades of faithful service without a hint of suspicion poses any threat whatever to children.»

And it also was not a doctrine in the original church, but it doesn't make it any less truthful.

It is not a doctrine or a belief or a faith.

What Jesus is talking about in the Sermon on the Mount is not doctrine; it is a way of life.

What matters most is the centrality of the Christ in our lives, not the doctrine with which we explain this centrality.

ndoneill — the book of Acts is historical account of what happend, NOT doctrine to be followed.

Unlike the one led by Martin Luther, this reformation is challenging not doctrine but the very medium through which the message of Christianity is articulated.

It is correctly observed that the discipline of celibacy is precisely that, a discipline and not a doctrine.

Certainly, the Cosmic Christ is not a doctrine to be believed in and lived out at the expense of the historical Jesus.

These are devotions based on «private revelations» not doctrine.

Of course this is not a doctrine of the Atonement.

The question of whether we may hold to a hope (not a doctrine!)

1: 10 - 11: If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Although all of them were members of churches, they found my description of the Christian life as centered on giving and sharing strange — it is not a doctrine or a feeling but a way of living together with others.

This, I believe, is what the apostle Paul meant when he instructed Christians to be ready to give a defense for the hope --(not the certainty, not the doctrine, not the logic....

«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.»

Not doctrine or ritual.

Not doctrine or ceremony.

However, the belief was not doctrine.

I love that the message is about the healing power of love and not a doctrine or particular path that you might believe in personally.

Until the churches of this world, Catholic included, actually start caring about people and not doctrine they will constantly face this push back from people who can think and reason.

This is not some doctrine I made up or some outdated, legalistic ruleset created by power - hungry Christian leaders.

He added: «There isn't a doctrine that says if you have entered into a same - sex civil marriage, then you can not officiate.»

Wrong, Obama takes Jesus at his word, not doctrines because those are man made.

Celibacy isn't a doctrine chief, it's a practice.

1820) the power of the Wahhabis had been destroyed, but not their doctrines.

Or are you of the more maybe they do and maybe they don't doctrine?»

It presents metaphors, not doctrines».

Not exact matches

It is one without too much economic literature behind it (I am not well read by any stretch of the most generous imagination) and almost no political doctrine.

«Those statements are definitely relevant, because there's a longstanding doctrine that there can be laws or executive orders that on their face don't discriminative on the basis of race or religion but that is their motive — and if that is their motive, they can be struck down,» Ilya Somin, a George Mason University law professor, told CNN on Tuesday.