Sentences with phrase «on doctrinal issues»

Significant convergences on doctrinal issues have not ceased, as in, for example, the Lutheran — Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (1999), but these convergences tend to be the outcome of discussions already well advanced in earlier decades and are to be attributed more to institutional inertia than to continuing enthusiasm.

Müller answered jokingly: «On doctrinal issues, we are the only ones never taken into account.

Not exact matches

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

Organizational and interpersonal issues, rather than doctrinal differences or hot - button issues such as homosexuality, were the most likely to motivate pastors to move on.

From which doctrinal foundation do you base your position on various issues in Christianity?

Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both directions caused by trying to get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.

SBC conservatives have much history on their side when they argue for a robust Baptist confessionalism, but they depart from the historic Baptist pattern when they restrict their doctrinal concern to the single issue of biblical inerrancy.

It's not a doctrinal issue — we do not, for instance, vote every few years on moral standards or doctrines.

This book provides an important historical record of evangelical doctrinal commitments on a wide range of issues.

When AMIA leaders talked to me about their departure from the Episcopal Church, they focused more on the doctrinal problems represented by Bishop Spong than on the sexual issues raised by the election of gay bishop V. Gene Robinson.

Marxist - Christian dialogue should not be confined to philosophical or doctrinal issues, although dialogue on these issues will always be necessary.

The «Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian» issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1990, stated that no public discussion of non-infallible doctrinal statements is permitted within the Church.

Ironically, even if I did end up believing them, there was nothing in the doctrinal statement one way or the other on any of the issues I was studying.

Among the best is that by Professor Robert Fastiggi who wrote, «I agree with Pope Francis that there are many beautiful insights about marriage» in Cardinal Kasper's presentation, but on the issue of communion for the divorced and remarried, Kasper is decidedly wrong, for reasons laid out by Fastiggi and by Francis's own doctrinal chief, Gerhard Cardinal Muller.

Of course, aside from Scripture (just speaking pragmatically here), I know many women who would do a much better job deciding on doctrinal and practical issues than many so - called elders.

A limited understanding of the foundational role of Christ's divinity will hinder faith in the Church as divinely guided in aiding us to «make up our minds» on key doctrinal issues.

I've been exercising these tools now for some twenty years as I have studied and written exhaustively about doctrinal issues, including publishing a book on corporal punishment (spanking) in the Bible in the hope of shedding new light on that issue.»

Sometimes, in the course of my more theoretical research, we may come across a discrete doctrinal issue and consider writing on that topic.

Mr Justice Eady, a well known libel judge, effectively threw the action out on the basis of the principle of English law that the courts will not attempt to rule upon doctrinal issues or intervene in the regulation or governance of religious groups.