Sentences with phrase «such doctrinal statements»

To make absolute claims regarding such doctrinal statements gives too much weight to specific formulations of doctrine.

Not exact matches

We argued in May that such a focus upon the personal subject effectively excludes linguistic objectivity - and so the unchanging validity of doctrinal statements.

Some religious groups prefer precise doctrinal statements in order to enhance the cohesion of their members, and they are only secondarily concerned with the effect of such regulation upon spontaneity.

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.

In such a way, doctrinal statements have gutted the gospel of any real importance or significance in our lives.]

Therefore, the gospel can not be summarized in a doctrinal statement because statements of belief usually do not also contain statements of behavior, and even if they did, such «lists» soon become legalistic rules, which undermines the gospel even further.

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.

There are, of course, numerous Scriptural passages and theological arguments that are used to defend such a use of doctrinal statements.

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.