Sentences with phrase «traditional church doctrines»

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.

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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.
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