Sentences with phrase «own doctrines and practice»

Even though most students still identify themselves as Orthodox, many have limited grounding in church doctrine and practice.

For that reason i suggest people test the doctrines and practices of a religion they are interested in.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

We do not advocate accommodation to culture; we regard Scripture as the sole ultimate norm for doctrine and practice.

Second, an increasing number of feminist theologians are directing their energies toward the church's central doctrines and practices — justification by faith, the incarnation, baptism and the Eucharist.

We desperately need right doctrine and practice.

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

Only those were admitted who fulfilled the minimum requirements of Islamic doctrine and practice, and they had to go through a probation period.

The Methodists took constant criticism from people who believed false reports about their doctrines and practices.

He must learn more than ever before to bear his own responsibility within the concrete Church and not in a basic, though secret opposition to her, and to cope also with the historical conditions of her doctrine and practice in freely given obedience.

For priests, too, are not necessarily immune against misunderstanding the historicity of the Church's doctrine and practice either from an irritable conservatism or from revolutionary progressivism.

We must acknowledge the ever - present tendency to self - deceit, idolatry and institutional pride in its doctrines and practices.

As an Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Warehouse 242 is by doctrine and practice somewhere between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which is considered theologically liberal, and the Presbyterian Church in America, which broke off in the early 1970s to maintain a more traditionalist approach.

Here we are bound to raise the most serious questions concerning the doctrine and practice of the Lord's Supper whereby very early the Agape and the Eucharist were sundered,

If there is anywhere a separation between the kingdoms of the sacred and the secular, it is in the doctrine and practice of the Lord's Supper.

The nineteenth century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche shrewdly observed that in his day the bourgeois elites of Europe wanted the fruit of Christianity (i.e., moral culture) without the tree itself (i.e., the actual doctrine and practice).

The expressions and ideas In the Odes clearly show that they belong to a period prior to any systematic development of Christian doctrine and practice and they were the first attempt by a Christian community to express its new found faith.

The Handbook cites a legitimate exercise of religious freedom» a Bolivian Catholic newspaper's criticism of the doctrine and practice of charismatic Protestant churches» as an example of religious intolerance.

There were various sects with their own peculiar doctrines and practices.

A friend of mine, speaking of the Catholic move to prune excessive Marian doctrine and practice after Vatican II by moving her statue to the side, observed that Protestants moved her out the door altogether.

I see a danger that the churches will divide between those that rigidly maintain the doctrines and practices of the past and those that enter a decadent mainstream.

At least the doctrine and practice of AE / Dalahast's nasty religion has shifted enough that they are no longer torturing and threatening scientists who expose the Christian god fraud, or at least not as much as in years past.

That doesn't mean I think they're right about everything or that our differences of doctrine and practice don't matter.

It is broken by anathemas and refusal of shared communion and rejection of real Christians» ministries just because of differences of doctrine and practice.»

It's clear that a balance of doctrine and practice is the ideal.

This of course is coupled with Church doctrine and practice that Baptism is not completely necessary.

Today many voices call for organizational Church union at the expense of doctrine and practice (faith and order).

The notion of a homogeneous Church that looks exactly the same in doctrine and practice from congregation to congregation, culture to culture, community to community, is unrealistic and unhelpful.

If you want to know church age doctrine and practice you always look to what Paul says first (which really isn't Paul because he received all of his revelation from the Lord Jesus).

Conservative, liberal, or in - between, we should continue to debate the doctrines and practices closest to our hearts.

Yet, the study said, spirit - filled believers, especially Pentecostals, «stand out for the intensity of their belief» in traditional doctrines and practices compared to other Christians.

There is an increasing attempt by churches belonging to different confessional families, groupings of those oriented in a particular theological direction, or even by individual churches themselves, to engage in bilateral or multilateral dialogues, where specific issues regarding the doctrines and practices that continue to be both theological and practical irritants, like the practice of Baptism or the existence of mixed marriages are discussed, analysed and debated, and attempts made to produce consensus documents for further study and action.

A new approach to theology is needed, one which focuses on the Biblical text, and emphasizes both doctrine and practice.

When the Bible speaks of «the faith» it is speaking of the doctrines and practices which separate followers of Jesus from those who follow something or someone other than Jesus.

The ELCA is conducting a million dollar study on homosexuality in church doctrine and practice, and the governing assembly will be asked to make decisions in 2003.

The question then becomes: To what extent does the missionary push orthodox boundaries (in doctrine and practice) to present the gospel to a people group?

Don't you see that contradictions in doctrine and practices really damages the Body of Christ?

In the end, each religious tradition must develop its own ethic of confidentiality rooted in its own doctrines and practice.

I was not satisfied with the pat answers I was given by my mentors and teachers to questions I had about Pentecostal doctrines and practices.

The first Protestant «project» for Brazil (by American Methodists in the 1830s and 1840s) was a national reformation, in which the political desire for a breach with Rome would be supplemented by a reform of doctrine and practice stimulated by ample distribution of the Scriptures.

Sufi — a Muslim mystic; a member of a religious order which follows mystical interpretations of Islamic doctrines and practices.

It is similar in doctrine and practice to a conservative Presbyterian church but is independent of any denominational affiliation.

With only minor variations, it characterized virtually every pagan culture of that day - including all pre christian doctrine and practice.

values are plainly jeopardized when church property litigation is made to turn on the resolution by civil courts of controversies over religious doctrine and practice.

At UW Law, we believe the best legal education integrates legal theory, doctrine and practice that must be delivered by a diverse faculty to a diverse student body.

While there is a wide diversity among Christians on matters of doctrine and practice, there are foundational beliefs that provide the basis for unity among all Christians.

Not exact matches

Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.

(Just as predictably, the church's doctrine and discipline, with regard to homosexual practice, received even more attention.)

The Reformation introduce a wave of man - made false doctrine (the most degenerate of all being Calvinism - TULIP) It is IMPOSSIBLE to be in a church and practice Christian faith.

Others are even more adamant, however, in saying that the Church can not change a practice that is based on the doctrine of Jesus, the apostles, and centuries of authoritative teaching.