Silence was highly related to belief in
traditional church doctrines: 95 per cent of the modernists preached on Proposition 14 while only 29 per cent of the traditionalists did so.
Not exact matches
If you think the bible is enough, just look at the hundreds of
traditional - Christian
churches that read from one bible, yet teach hundreds of different
doctrines, which confuses us as to which interpretation is the truth.
Our attempts to organize the available nutrients have suggested a general lack of the
traditional staple represented by the
doctrine of the
church.
(Mt 16:17) Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the
Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a
traditional doctrine of faith or morals.
Out of this synthesis and vision of Man will — indeed must — arise the
doctrine and philosophy of love
traditional to the Catholic Christian
Church.
Thus papal infallibility is effectively exercised when according to the «manifest meaning and intention» (Vatican II, Constitution on the
Church, n. 25) of the teaching, the Pope invokes the authority of Christ to confirm and define a
traditional doctrine of faith or morals.
After you described your list of disagreement or doubts with the
traditional minor
doctrines of Christianity you said; «Now you see why I have to go into
church planting.
And now they have the impression that people are discussing anything and everything, questioning everything, that everything is collapsing, that their own perhaps hard - earned and dearly - bought rigid adherence to the
doctrine, and above all the
traditional practice, of the
Church even to the slightest concrete detail of the style of religious and secular life, is disavowed and almost despised by the
Church and its leading representatives.
The
traditional doctrine of the communion of saints had heavenly members in the
church which had an influence upon it.
Test 1: «Differences between the LDS
Church and most of
traditional Christianity include... a
doctrine of «exaltation» which includes the ability of humans to become gods and goddesses in the afterlife.»
If, however, the rejection of war in toto — which apparently is how McElroy understands the words of Paul VI — is at the very center of Catholic teaching, it would seem that the
Church's
traditional just - war
doctrine has not been developed but repudiated.
The reason can be found in the document's preface where it insists that religious freedom «leaves untouched
traditional Catholic
doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion and toward the one
Church of Christ» (s. 1).
Full credit must be given to St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 - 74), who, building upon the work of his teacher Albertus, constructed such a magnificent synthesis of
traditional Christian
doctrine and of the new knowledge that it became the standard expression of Christian
doctrine for the Roman Catholic
Church up until the present day.
'» Clearly, many in the
Church today are taking their cues from culture rather than
traditional Catholic
doctrine.
Let us simply recall the climactic point of the just - war debate in the analysis made by Gratian and Thomas Aquinas, which became the
traditional doctrine of the Catholic
Church.
Surveying the American past with Evangelicals as their focus, Finke and Stark discover the same «law» of American
church history that Kelley did two decades ago: «To the degree that denominations rejected
traditional doctrines and ceased to make serious demands on their followers, they ceased to prosper.»
His charge against Lutherans and Tyndalists was that in their pride of intellect, they had discarded the
traditional teaching and interpretation of the
church and had colored their translations to support their
doctrines.
Their German ethnic heritage and the struggle over the definition of Lutheranism have led to LCMS schools that are tightly integrated with their local
churches, permeated with
traditional Lutheran
doctrine, and staffed by Lutherans trained in LCMS colleges.