We can only talk cautiously of possibilities here, on condition that they can be actually reconciled
with orthodox doctrine.
First, however: I have now stated the most serious of my differences
with orthodox doctrine.
Despite the clear differences compared
with orthodox doctrine, some Christians have been seeking to find common ground with Mormons in recent years.
Not exact matches
These Blaine Amendments discriminate against the Catholic Church and against other relatively
orthodox churches, whose attachment to their own distinctive authority and
doctrine limits their ability to form institutions in concert
with other religious groups.
The difficulties
with the
doctrine of resurrection did not disappear after the victories of the Pharisaic party in Judaism and the
orthodox in early Christianity.
Add to that the variety of
doctrines / Theologies within
orthodox Christianity...
with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.
The literal definition of heresy is belief contrary to
orthodox doctrine or opinion profoundly at odds
with what is generally accepted.
The
orthodox substitutionary
doctrine of the atonement has a little trouble dealing
with the fact that Jesus must bear, in our stead, the punishment due our sin.
He represented the warm, personal religion of German Pietism, coupled
with a strong
orthodox Lutheranism which insisted on adherence to the historically formulated Lutheran
doctrines.
They were, he avers, operating out of classical Lutheran theology that was decisively shaped by the
orthodox Lutheran Franz Lau, who, at the crucial time of the church struggle
with the state in 1952, wrote a book entitled Luther's
Doctrine of the Two Realms.
I do not claim that this was Whitehead's final
doctrine, but I do maintain that it accords well
with many of the distinctive features of «the philosophy of organism» and is better suited to further development, and to application, than is the
orthodox interpretation of Whitehead's final synthesis.
While Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone holds the line on the teaching of
orthodox moral
doctrines of the Catholic Church out in San Francisco, here in New Jersey a theology teacher in Immaculata High School in Somerville is threatened
with dismissal from her position for... agreeing
with orthodox moral
doctrines of the Catholic Church.
A traditional Christian, upholding the
orthodox belief in God's absolute freedom
with respect to creation can capture both these insights by a properly articulated
doctrine of the Trinity.
Let's start
with the basic tenets of the
orthodox doctrine of precedent.