Sentences with phrase «stronger doctrine of the church»

I would argue for a stronger doctrine of the church than I find in Niebuhr, perhaps a more catholic one, one that emphasizes the church as the body of Christ - the church as the one sacrament from which all the particular sacraments are derived, as Karl Rahner put it.

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The LDS chuch's doctrine of salvation has much in common with the Universal Church (Roman Catholic) and hence provides a strong motivation toward actions that improve our society and our communities.

«Strong churches are strong in the first instance because of doctrine,» heStrong churches are strong in the first instance because of doctrine,» hestrong in the first instance because of doctrine,» he says.

Later as I studied the Bible more deeply and became aware of many other church traditions, doctrines, and denominations, my Baptist convictions grew stronger.

As Anderson shows, all the best and true Catholic reformers — whatever their political views or prudential decisions — were always strong proponents of established Church doctrine, and fierce disciplinarians when it came to upholding Church teaching, particularly in the area of sexual morality (a main target of today's «reformers»).

Also strong is LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta) as a congregant in Pearson's church, gay himself, who struggles to keep his internal torments at bay while Pearson's change of tune cruelly dangles the possibility that these conservative doctrines that have ruined his life might be changeable.

Many fundamentalists are convinced that the one mighty and strong is already here on earth among them, «holding the scepter of power in his hand,» and that very soon now he will lead the Mormon Church back onto the right path and restore Joseph's «most holy and important doctrine.»