No doctrinal injury would have resulted, if the Child Jesus had never left the Holy Land.
In the doctrinal scheme of St. Paul there was no room for a compromise between salvation by faith and reliance upon our own performance of any works, even those simple and obvious duties which are of world-wide obligation.
The instruction prescribed by the Didache is very largely ethical, and stands in striking contrast to the more elaborate doctrinal teaching which came into vogue in later days.
These works, which did much to mould the character of the German people, were set among the doctrinalstandards of the Lutheran Church and powerfully influenced other compilations.
It is only incidentally and because it is unavoidable that he attacksdoctrinal Christianity.
Of all the blood-stained tangled heresies which make up doctrinal Christianity and imprison the mind of the western world to-day, not one seems to have been known to the nominal founder of Christianity.
In order that it should seize these one chief thing appeared imperative: doctrinal uniformity.
The methods of the Salvation Army are older than doctrinal Christianity, and may long survive it.
It is possible also that these misgivings were in some cases emphasized by the further fact that there is a marked absence of doctrinal teaching.
And there is no sufficient motive for a forgery, for the letter is singularly wanting in doctrinal statements.
The purpose of the passage is not doctrinal at all, but, like the rest of the Epistle, eminently practical.
The doctrinal part of His discourses was precisely that part which did not impress him; it seemed to him as the wild fancies of an enthusiast (Mark iii.
But if they are, as they are sometimes supposed to be, merely a doctrinal proem to an actual Gospel, I admit they must have proceeded from some one else.
All these are based not so much upon the Bible itself as on a rearrangement known as the Historical Bible, telling the stories and omitting the doctrinal portions.
This doctrinal attitude changed when, at the end of the seventeenth century, Pietism in Germany and Methodism in England once again turned religion from ecclesiastical doctrine to personal devotion.
He cannot be made to feel sufficiently the necessity for a sound practical grasp of doctrinal Christianity.
To Ronald himself, he might as well have talked about the necessity for a sound practical grasp of doctrinal Buddhism.
Letter 7), he expressly rejects the serious doctrinal errors of Schwenkfeldt respecting the Scriptures, the Person of Christ, the two Sacraments, etc.
The doctrinal system which Arndt so sincerely revered, was brought to this country by the Lutheran pastors who visited our shores at a very early period.
Both parties were undoubtedly more or less honest in adhering to their doctrinal views; and both claimed the right to depose and exile those of an opposite faith, whenever the civil and political power was, in either case, directed by them.
The deep spirituality of Arndt, and his active and pure faith, can be fully understood and appreciated only when we reflect on the doctrinal system to which he had given his heart, and to which we have referred above.
No doctrinal belief exists among them,' writes Patteson, in the third month of his stay.
Mr. Nihill had taught them well, and I am sure they could pass an examination in Scriptural history, simple doctrinal statements, &c.
Hitherto he had concerned himself with matters of mixed ecclesiastical and political import, but henceforth he devoted himself exclusively to doctrinal matters and came out as the Reformer.
So deep as to strangle and drown the old false doctrinal hobbies so long ridden.
Great Schism of the West,' when two popes were elected, one in Rome and the other in Avignon, that Wycliffe came out as the great Doctrinal Reformer.
She has wearied even the preachers with the dishonesty of preaching things not believed in, and yet they did not cast out her doctrinal corruption, which shall be fuel for the fire of anarchy.
Again, in the phase of captivity in "Babylon," the Lord's people were guilty of doctrinal and moral pollution and of illicit union of church and earthly power.
There is no doctrinal theology in the Epistle to the Thessalonians, they tell us.
There are no such definite doctrinal statements in it as in the most of Paul's longer letters; it is simply an outburst of confidence and love and tenderness, and a series of practical instructions.
It has been called the leastdoctrinal of the Pauline Epistles.
That is the characteristic doctrinalsubject of the letter.
It contains no doctrinal discussions and no rebukes of evil, but is an outpouring of happy love and confidence.
Granted that there is no articulate argumentative setting forth of great doctrinal truths.
Information on various doctrinal points, and assurances of Christian sympathy.
He is not to give his time to platitudes and polemics and phylacteries and lectures and dissertations on doctrinal divergences.
Occasionally doctrinal controversies have arisen, but they have always been taken up and considered in a spirit of love and prayer, and adjusted by following the precepts of and in the footsteps of the Master.
There was also between the liberals and the conservatives some divergences in doctrinalbelief centered upon that portion of the confession of faith and the catechism which it was claimed taught the doctrine of fatalism.
The churchman of the Old World brought his doctrinal issues to the New, as the caravan camel under his burden of ivory and dates and spices, carries his hump.
Therefore, when he rose as the advocate of conservatism, the champion of predestination, and of an educated ministry fully alive and thoroughly grounded in all doctrinal tenets of the church, he was in no mood for compromises.
In order that a close league should be made, it was necessary that some common doctrinal standpoint should be agreed upon, and infinite theological discussions took place to bring this about.
The establishment of an open Bible in English in every church for the perusal of the parishioners, due, as indeed most of the doctrinal changes were, to Cranmer, encouraged men to think to some extent for themselves.
We have something to study that is more directly important than doctrinal history.
He was accused of a large number of doctrinal errors and of such absurdities as that of claiming to be a person of the Trinity.
The latter arrogating to itself a supremacy in theological matters, regarding itself as arbiter in all matters of doctrinal speculation, acquired the authority which the Inquisition lost.
Worse was the doctrinal error involved--the attack upon sacraments and priesthood contained in the preaching of the strange means of grace by these new priests of Baal.
To such a pass had doctrinal differences already brought the adherents of a religion which proclaimed peace and goodwill among men.
Heresy--essentially free choice in the sphere of religious belief in contradistinction to implicit obedience to doctrinal authority--was a serious problem to the Church in the early centuries of the Christian era.
The very heinousness of heresy to the mediaeval mind lay largely in its challenge to the essential social, ecclesiastical, doctrinal unity of Christendom.
It is not easy to discover what was the doctrinal position of the seculars, but they seem to have reproached the Dominicans at all events with overfondness for philosophy as distinct from theology.
Such were some of the main doctrinal features of Catharism.
So that Mr Coleman’s distinction of the doctrinal part, and of the dispensing of the word and sacraments, cannot here help him.
Where had the ministry a doctrinal power in a Christian state?
Not to a single minister (yet every single minister hath power of doctrinal objurgation), but to the presbytery.
But having completed their task, so far as depended upon themselves, they then turned their attention to their doctrinal labours.
He tells us often that he doth not deny to church officers all power of church government, but only the corrective part of government; that the doctrinal and declarative power is in the ministry; see p.
Parliament having voted that power to church-officers which is not doctrinal (as I showed before).
It was not of parliamentary sanction, but of divines doctrinalasserting of the will of God that I said, Why should jus divinum be such a noli me tangere?
On August 11th, he wrote to Cyril, accepting his doctrinal statements, and giving him an important commission.
Theodoret says that his knowledge of heavenly things anddoctrinal perspicuity were very remarkable.
On the 13th of June, he wrote several letters, one of them was his famous "Tome," a doctrinal epistle addressed to S.
Huge folios of controversial and doctrinal lore followed each other in quick succession.
I perceive," he says, "that most of the doctrinal controversies among Protestants are far more about equivocal words than matter.
His controversial works, his confessions of faith, his learned disputations, and his profound doctrinal treatises are no longer read.
As the product of an honest and earnest mind, his doctrinal dissertations have at least the merit of sincerity.
It has no living oracles left; and its memory survives only in the doctrinaltreatises of the elder and younger Edwards, Hopkins, Bellamy, and Emmons.
Between the first and the last there is no definite change of doctrinal attitude.
That portion of Christendom which adhered to the Roman pontificate, confining its doctrinal modifications within the limits set by the Council of Trent, arrogated to itself the title of Catholic.
In its second aspect, the Reformation was a religious revolution; a revision of ethical standards; a revival of that ardour of sentiment and of conviction whereof martyrs are born; a spiritual movement, accompanied by a doctrinal upheaval.
To speak candidly, I had been far less shocked with his opposition to me upon matters of doctrinal faith than with that upon matters of abstract reasoning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doctrinal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
