Sentences with phrase «official doctrine»

While there's not official doctrines on the subject, most have no problem merging the idea of 7 creative «periods» that may have been many years in length and involved evolutionary aspects.

But the former were never systematically excised from official doctrine, and Aristotle quickly recaptured a leading place in Lutheran theological education.

Furthermore, as official doctrine this orthodoxy instills self - doubt in many thinking Christians and serves to keep them Out of the mainstream of Church thought and life.

That means that Common Core methods are spreading far here, even in Virginia, where it is not official doctrine.

The official doctrine of the Church was quite clear and unchanged, of course, and for the most part these accommodations have been tucked away in remote corners.

The more I learn about various religions, the more I'm seeing how the declarations of «prophets» have far less of an impact on believers» day to day lives than is implied by their official doctrines.

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

They do not even have an official doctrine on abortion.

I grew up Lutheran and chose to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints after learning the official doctrine.

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).

So the actual situation of personal faith may be the same in the Catholic Church as in Protestantism, though it is hidden behind the facade of the official doctrine (though we do not dispute that this is also of theological importance).

Soviet policy toward religion was based on the ideology of Marxism - Leninism, which made atheism the official doctrine of the Soviet Union.

Research shows clearly that most Catholics differ from the official doctrine on virtually all matters of sexual ethics.

The Church also needs to find a way to teach what she affirms in her official doctrines, something that hasn't been happening very effectively for two generations.

She explained that cardinals are supposed to support the teaching of the Pope, while Jesuits belong to the intellectual opposition, secretly if not publicly contesting the official doctrine of the Church.

Among those that oppose the beliefs, which is part of the church's official doctrine in their «Book of Discipline», is Rev. Thomas Ogletree, the former dean of Yale Divinity School and Drew Theological School, who recently presided over the wedding of his gay son.

When Pope Leo XIII in 1879 instructed bishops and priests to «restore the golden wisdom of Thomas and to spread it far and wide for the defense and beauty of the Catholic faith,» he was at once proclaiming Thomism the official doctrine of the Catholic Church and solidifying the divide between Catholics and Protestants.

The catechism, the Catholic Church's book of official doctrine, condemns homosexual acts, but says gays and lesbians «must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity.»

However, we have no official doctrine on this point.

He deeply believed in the connection between Christian virtue and education, but he refused to make that the official doctrine of his school.