Sentences with phrase «of doctrinal difference»

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Christian denominations in the world divided along lines of doctrinal difference.

The ecumenical juggernaut appears to be foundering because of its chronic inability to appreciate the persistence of doctrinal differences and its failure to appeal beyond elite ecclesiastics.

Not exact matches

There remain both «federal conservatives» and «federal liberals» (as the English Evangelical Graham Kings has put it), both groups of which, for all their doctrinal differences, share the belief that Anglicanism as a communion does not matter all that much.

Mormons are not supposed to be Christian because we have some doctrinal differences with other Christian groups of today.

At the Houston convention, the insistence was that these are differences in practice, not in doctrine, thereby allowing the LCMS to be free of doctrinal disputes.

[10] «ln our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wide - ranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.»

«23 «It can be safely said,» states Thomas Luckmann, «that within Protestantism doctrinal differences are virtually irrelevant for members of the major denominations.

This is a difficult task, because there are so many diverse reasons for the separations, reasons going back to the time of the reformation, reasons which have emerged only later through the historical development of the separated Churches, doctrinal reasons, but also sociological, national, cultural ones which by themselves do not add up to a real denominational difference.

Whatever the doctrinal differences of the churches may be, the need to help people and families is a common concern.

However it does seem to me that there is a difference in how we should treat behavioral differences which are destructive and doctrinal differences that are matter of opinion or perspective.

We should state quite frankly, especially if we take the «hierarchy of Christian truths» seriously, that the doctrinal differences which divide the modern Protestant Churches are much deeper andmore radical than those that separated the original Protestant denominations from the Tridentine confession.

Actually, Katherine, a major thrust of the post, and the point to which I believe is challenged by the verse I cited, is that doctrinal differences should be subordinated to the goal of getting along in «love».

The goal of ecumenism can not be unity in spite of differences; it must instead be to come to a point where doctrinal differences no longer exist, where doctrinal agreement has been achieved, and structural unity can therefore be enacted as a result.

There is a danger that real doctrinal differences may be underplayed or ignored in such an ecumenical framework, all in the effort to achieve «mutual recognition,» as the cardinal says, of each other as equal manifestations of the Church.

It is charged that it is only among those who have not maintained the principle of sola scriptura that doctrinal differences on central areas of the faith have surfaced.

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It will also imply that initiatives in Ecumenism of minimising doctrinal meanings and differences are on the wrong lines and are hindering the meaning of the Holy Spirit in asking Ecumenism of the Church.

Likewise Cardinal Edward Cassidy declared: «This does not mean that Evangelicals and Catholics have overcome all their doctrinal differences or that their understanding of the Gospel and of the Christian message has suddenly become identical.

This is one of the reasons doctrinal differences exist among Christians.

It was the conviction at the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh that the goal of carrying the Gospel to the world could best be achieved by concentrating on this common purpose and excluding doctrinal and ecclesiastical differences from considerations.

When the conference considered the possibility of establishing an International Committee, it was specifically stated that such a committee, when organized, should be, from the very beginning, precluded from handling matters concerned with the doctrinal or ecclesiastical differences of various denominations.1

Just believe what the bible teaches» is the mantra on both sides of many doctrinal differences.

He warns of the real danger of dialogue leading to the dilution of confessional standards, leveling out all genuine differences, doctrinal minimalism, or what he calls common denominator ecumenicity, all of which have resulted in darkening the light of truth such that «believers do not even know at what points they are really one, to say nothing of the points on which they are divided.»

The doctrinal differences between Rabbinic Judaism and Messianic Judaism stem from the initial antagonism between the founders of the two schools of thought on YHWH.

«Doctrinal differences should be relegated to the rear and more important issues should be the focus of discussion.

There are many doctrinal differences that most evangelicals seem to be able to live with for the sake of unity, such as women's leadership, penal atonement and the role of the Spirit.

In the past, some of those who have looked for theological and doctrinal differences between white and black churches have concluded that such differences, if any, were minor.

In our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wideranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.