Sentences with phrase «on doctrinal statements»

if I do, I run the risk of making this chapter go too long, just like I did with the last one on doctrinal statements....

In this series on doctrinal statements, I will argue that something similar happens in many other areas of theology as well.

The chapter on doctrinal statements will make more sense when it is all put together, rather than cut up into pieces for blog posts.

I really appreciate you clarifying in this post your position on doctrinal statements.

Despite how hard I have been on doctrinal statements in recent posts, I do think there are several good uses for them.

He urged his readers not to concentrate on the doctrinal statements which they mocked, but on a «sense and taste for the Infinite», or, in a phrase that he often used, on «a feeling of absolute dependence.»

Some points on some doctrinal statements must be wrong, and we must not be so arrogant to think that our chosen doctrinal statement is 100 % accurate, while everybody else is in error.

I hope to bring out this point more clearly in the next several posts as I try to draw this series on Doctrinal Statements to a conclusion...

It means that how we treat one another and what we do for our neighbors matters more than what we write down on our doctrinal statement.

Not exact matches

A movement built on broad - based networks of churches and parachurch organizations will inevitably fragment when it tries to move to more thorough doctrinal statements.

All Christians ever since, whether they are Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, or Free Church, have agreed on the central doctrinal statements expressed in this particular statement of faith.

In order to make sure he agrees, Levi must attend a class to learn all the distinctives of the doctrinal statement, and then sign on the dotted line.

When we use doctrinal statements to determine the eternal destiny of other people — which is something only Jesus should do — it is not long before we get the idea that if a person is reprobate and a heretic, it is better to send them on their way to hell, then to let them stick around and lead others astray.

Nevertheless, even though I now have a doctrinal statement (of sorts) on this blog, I am not going to emphasize it or make it prominent.

However, by the end of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve communion with unleavened bread on Easter Sunday.

And when, as in the United Methodist Book of Discipline, one attempts to grasp the oneness of life, the effort is split up into «Doctrine and Doctrinal Statements» on the one hand, and the «Social Principles» on the other.

While I do think that there are some things we can know with absolute certainty, I think that several ideas found on most doctrinal statements do fall into this category.

(available on the web, viewed by over 3,000) contains a kind of «doctrinal statement» on 3 days and 3 nights (Tuesday crucifixion and Friday resurrection) and I think it can be regarded as valid until someone refutes the findings and evidence contained in it.

My Lutheran friend is pleased that Catholics and Lutherans can approve a common statement on justification by faith, but «doctrinal agreement turns out to be sheer abstraction apart from a concrete vision of the shape of the Life we are saved to live.»

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.

Similarly, other points from doctrinal statements often represent key teachings from Scripture and can help guide our own study into Scripture, keeping us within the doctrinal boundaries of Christians from the past (See The Shape of Sola Scriptura for more on this idea).

A doctrinal statement helps the leadership team stay on the same page.

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.

No longer will doctrinal statements be focused on «truths to believe» as a litmus test for orthodoxy.

We do have a long Doctrinal Statement on our website, but this short mission statement is the one that is continually put before us.

Though there are thousands of small things that can be done, I have tried to focus on some of the biggest areas of concern, such as our church buildings, professional paid clergy, doctrinal statements, and religious rites.

If one believes all the right things, and can sign on the dotted line of the best doctrinal statements that the church has ever written, but their life is full of hatred, greed, and selfishness, I would argue that while they may have eternal life, and while they may believe some good truths from the gospel, they really have not understood the most essential parts of the gospel.

[So in general, doctrinal statements lead people to think that if they just believe the right things, and sign on the dotted line, then they can live any way they want.

I want to end with a citation from the 1985 statement of the Inter-Orthodox Symposium on the Lima documents; it takes its direction from the classical concept of reception: «Reception at this stage is a step forward «in the «process of our growing together in mutual trust...» towards doctrinal convergence and ultimately towards «communion with one another in continuity with the apostles and the teachings of the universal Church».

I am not sure how long you have been reading this blog, but this post here is actually part of a series that has been going on for about three weeks so far, in which I look at at the use and abuse of doctrinal statements.

Throughout history, people disagree on what Scripture actually teaches, and so doctrinal statements were written to serve as a guide for the proper interpretation and understanding of Scripture.

On an earlier comment, Sam talked about «insider theology» where a group has a hidden doctrinal statement that is not written on paper, and you don't know what it is until after you trespass and get burned for iOn an earlier comment, Sam talked about «insider theology» where a group has a hidden doctrinal statement that is not written on paper, and you don't know what it is until after you trespass and get burned for ion paper, and you don't know what it is until after you trespass and get burned for it.

We need the doctrinal statement so people know what we believe, and so we can take a stand on the truth.

On the contrary, the meaning of doctrinal statements such as the creeds and other historical professions of belief, the circumstances which evoked them, and the philosophical presuppositions which helped to determine the character of their assertions are all matters of the greatest interest and importance.

(FWIW, my big problem with the way we do doctrinal statements is not that we have them, but that we insist on 100 % subscription to them.

Early CHA and WTS doctrinal statements were modeled on NAE and ETS counterparts.

First, I could continue on to the next chapter in Close Your Church for Good., in which I will challenge the use of Doctrinal Statements.

Interestingly enough, not «theology proper» but a statement on Scripture appears as the first item in the formal doctrinal statement of the Assemblies of God (AG).

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.