Sentences with phrase «over doctrine»

Bar associations in particular have been a source of litigation over the doctrine of state action immunity.
He just wanted peace in his empire from all the factions who were fighting over doctrine.
Still, having derived directly from Methodism without the mediation of the Holiness Movements, as in the case of North American Pentecostalism, Chilean Pentecostalism emphasizes the primacy of experience over doctrine.
But if we could unite, if we could love one another, if we could agree that love for others was more important than being right about the rapture, then maybe the church would stop dividing over doctrine, and start showing the world what the love of God really looks like.
The rapes of countless thousands of children by their pedophile infested cult doesn't phase them but a dispute over doctrine gets them all riled up.
Yes, it sounds like snobbery, and yes, there are disagreements over doctrine, but we're human.
Many readers of this blog will be blissfully unaware of a storm that erupted recently among conservative Protestants over the doctrine of the Trinity.
A brief exception was the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, a body of 2.5 million members, when in the 1970s it went through explosive disputes and divisions over doctrine.
Even Father Ted is an easy - going chap who would prioritise relationship over doctrine.
If you are warring and fighting with your brother, especially over doctrine, it is probably a good indication that you have misunderstood the truth of that doctrine.
Yet Orthodox doctrine, worship and spiritual life are remarkably unified despite all our administrative confusion, disunity and even rivalries — and given a choice between administrative confusion and confusion over doctrine and worship, I'll take the first any day.
Bruce McCormack started from the same point in his brilliant essay on the role of justification in Protestant theology, an essay which is mandatory reading for those wishing to understand what's at stake over the doctrine of justification.
This means that if the disciples of Jesus squabble over doctrine, over decisions, over property, over power, then people everywhere — looking at them — will shake their heads and say, «They must not be real disciples.»
He viewed it instead as a divinely grounded doctrine, and so he battled over the doctrines of the church and held high the evangelical belief in justification by faith.
Luther struggled over the doctrine of justification by faith.
We do not follow the Nicene Creed, where a bunch of leaders from differing sects argued and debated over the doctrine before finally strong - arming the rest into voting on a very confusing and depressing definition of God with direct disagreements from the Bible.
They tend to argue over doctrine rather than contend biblically.
More precisely, to link Paul's statement to the root word meaning an opinion or division, perhaps heresy is insisting on dividing from others over a doctrine not spelled out in scripture, (the Pharisees) or dividing from others because one insists on denying something that is in scripture (Sadducees)?
Those evangelical theologians who privilege experience over doctrine, as postconservative Meliorists suggest, can not avoid what has been called the Hinduization of the faith, in which doctrines don't matter as long as there is contact with a certain spiritual atmosphere, since after all, true divinity is beyond words and concepts.
The people who don't want to divide over doctrine can come of judgmental and divisive toward those who do divide.
If we proclaim that God is love, and then dissolve into fist fights over doctrine, it sure looks like God could have been clearer to an outsider.
Was I inaccurate to say that he and his fellow postconservatives privilege experience over doctrine?
Lowest on the list of stressful issues were the contentious matters most visible at the national level — disputes over doctrine, homosexuality, racial issues, outreach programs and church growth.
Rather than divide over doctrine, we are to be unified in the Spirit.
It is precisely the centrality of religious experience over doctrine that will prepare the terrain for the introduction of the Pentecostal experience into Chilean popular culture.
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