The recondite topic of usury allowed Noonan to consider the problem of doctrinal development at greater length. |
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Second, doctrinal instruction need not oppose expository preaching, for it can rest on solid interpretation and can supplement such preaching. |
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This is a very important doctrinal change which concerns divorce and remarriage. |
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It seems that doctrinal conservatism, combined with modern techniques in evangelism, is the key to success here. |
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There were also doctrinal disputes, and arguments over the nature of papal authority. |
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This is a real doctrinal issue that's being fought right now in the Pentagon. |
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They considered a private relationship with God more important than doctrinal precision or correct forms of worship. |
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It is simply not possible to question the doctrinal orthodoxy of the men I profiled in that book. |
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But then he grew old and ill, and as he declined his doctrinal conservatism seemed to come more and more to the forefront. |
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This is not simply a doctrinal dispute over what name God is to be called, it is a dispute of who God actually is. |
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I hear that there is a crisis of biblical and doctrinal authority in the churches. |
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This doctrinal move conveniently advanced Europe's acquisition of sovereignty over African territory. |
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He was certainly no British doctrinal conservative, looking to God, natural law, loyalty and duty. |
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The doctrinal studies are concerned with establishing laws by proving them, some on the basis of others. |
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The doctrinal orthodoxy of the day was McCarthyism in its final, decaying phase. |
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The errors needed correcting, and besides, this was no time for doctrinal disputes! |
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This could be seen as an attempt to influence the doctrinal development of the common law. |
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We hope we can be agreeable and not ever become disagreeable in talking about doctrinal matters. |
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It was a clear case of contract law and of the doctrinal concerns and legal rights of the church's university. |
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The first group can include doctrinal provisions that are common to states in a particular region. |
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The Church will have to regain its doctrinal health once again before anything else. |
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In other words, it is a biblical and doctrinal criterion, not an ecclesiastical or historical one. |
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A pluralist is someone who holds that no specific doctrinal perspective is superior to the others. |
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As a doctrinal matter, I don't find the Court's attempt to constitutionalize his harm principle especially convincing. |
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Perhaps most significant about the confirmation bias is that the doctrinal military decision-making process lends itself to its occurrence. |
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The expectation is that key personnel already are aware of the relevant doctrinal and planning concepts. |
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He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism. |
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Various ecumenical councils were convened where the bishops from different regions met and discussed liturgical and doctrinal matters. |
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Structurally, our doctrinal foundation and strategy are aligned and congruent. |
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He was distinctly nervous of orthodoxies and almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems. |
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The best strategists have at their fingertips a wide assortment of doctrinal tools. |
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He spent his time reading omnivorously and engaging in doctrinal squabbles with other left-wing German refugees. |
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United prayer meetings, ecumenical fellowship and common worship events blur doctrinal differences for the sake of their particular cause. |
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The only heresies he actually mentions are so unheretical that Colet is clearly well within the doctrinal framework of the traditional church. |
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I say nothing about the ungracefulness of the translation but I much fear it will by many be taken as an indication of doctrinal bias. |
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In any case, in its bilious doctrinal carping, the editorial was quite exemplary, a sinister, jargon-ridden spasm of Stalinesque nastiness. |
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Don't worry about all the doctrinal injunctions in the catechism, they'd tell us. |
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There are virtually no theological or doctrinal books in the various indigenous languages. |
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I was simply fighting against what I perceived as biblical, doctrinal, and ascetic fundamentalism. |
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There are not several types of sermons, for example, expository, historical, doctrinal, moral, apologetic, and topical. |
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He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship. |
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American doctrinal thought exhibited a certain retrograde character during the years before the Civil War. |
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Words, phrases, sentences, and doctrinal teachings were subjected to close analysis and correct definitions and interpretations were recorded. |
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This also serves to promote the via media concept, for it is well known that Erasmus rejected the key Reformed doctrinal planks of sola gratia and sola fide. |
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Now, I gather that adherence to this literal view, held by Joseph Smith, is not for Mormons today a doctrinal matter. |
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Probably few people apart from religious professionals spend much time thinking about doctrinal statements such as the Nicene Creed or the Thirty-nine Articles. |
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However, his own bias in favour of doctrinal studies hindered acceptance of his theories, and he died at too young an age to have had much impact. |
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Interpretation is a struggle between instinctive, untutored, untheorized modes of appropriation and institutional conventions, codes, practices, and doctrinal manipulation. |
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New doctrinal and linguistic orthodoxies were put in place to institutionalize the gains made by revisionists in the name of pluralism and inclusivity. |
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The conclusion is unwarranted, and involves overplaying the disagreements and their importance while ignoring the basic unity of canonical and doctrinal decisions. |
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Something of the rich doctrinal content of the services is inevitably missed by large numbers of Orthodox who have not mastered Byzantine Greek or Church Slavonic. |
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A proper understanding of these images relies on a conversance with the doctrinal sources treating the decaying corpse as a subject for devotional practice. |
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It called for a new crackdown on doctrinal dissent, and recommended a papal investigation of American seminaries, the subtext of which was to blame gays. |
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As a general rule, the teaching of preaching will probably be of greater importance in seminaries where the mission emphasis is evangelical or doctrinal in nature. |
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A doctrinal synthesis may be a negative guide, eliminating erroneous interpretation, but only in a very extenuated sense would it be a positive aid to interpretation. |
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According to this belief, Lutheranism is a reform movement rather than a movement into doctrinal correctness. |
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Hinduism has no central doctrinal authority and many practising Hindus do not claim to belong to any particular denomination or tradition. |
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But the doctrinal tests that the Court has developed to govern the other two primary areas of supersession diverge from the preemption paradigm. |
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Since 1916, the two groups have developed along very different doctrinal paths. |
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Thus, the creation of the Assemblies of God marked an official end of Pentecostal doctrinal unity and racial integration. |
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These two churches disagree on a number of administrative, liturgical and doctrinal issues, most notably papal primacy of jurisdiction. |
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They were inspected by kirk sessions, who checked for the quality of teaching and doctrinal purity. |
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A joint committee made up of men from both denominations noted remarkable agreement on doctrinal standards, rules and methods. |
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Another implication was that the church they left was more tolerant of a wider range of doctrinal views. |
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Knox, however, modified its use to accord with the doctrinal emphases of the Continental reformers. |
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James VI of Scotland favoured doctrinal Calvinism but supported the bishops. |
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Several doctrinal disputes from the 4th century onwards led to the calling of Ecumenical councils. |
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The Protestant position, however, would come to incorporate doctrinal changes such as sola scriptura and sola fide. |
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These expeditions forced the Hussite forces, who disagreed on many doctrinal points, to unite to drive out the invaders. |
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At what point, if any, is the critics' fear of doctrinal limitlessness made manifest? |
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These doctrinal reforms have further strengthened the industry, lending the MPAA even more power and authority. |
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Its main tasks include maintaining and defining doctrinal orthodoxy, the adoption and prescription of liturgy. |
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Both the churches are in communion relationship, although the doctrinal positions are not mutually accepted in full. |
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This Millian approach to doctrinal diversity resonates with Stilwell's 'Open Society' argument for pluralism in economics. |
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In addition, a doctrinal split over the nature of Christ had branded many of the sects in the Near East as heretical monophysites. |
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Lutheran hymnody is well known for its doctrinal, didactic, and musical richness. |
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This doctrinal stance reflects the Protestant view of authority, embodied in the doctrine known as Sola Scriptura. |
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Otherwise, forms of polity are not mandated in the Lutheran churches, as it is not regarded as having doctrinal significance. |
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Later, such groups as the Anabaptists, Quakers, Moravians, Dukhobors and Mennonites made nonresistance a doctrinal position. |
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The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. |
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Their doctrinal formulation held that Jesus, the Word made flesh, is homoousion with the Father. |
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The focus of doctrinal debate on issues of social theology has continued into the 21st century. |
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As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief. |
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Anglicanism has traditionally expressed its doctrinal convictions based on the prayer texts and liturgy of the church. |
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Additionally, there are two parallel streams informing doctrinal development and understanding in Anglicanism. |
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A doctrinal conflict had developed between Luther and Zurich reformer Huldrych Zwingli on the interpretation of the eucharist. |
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The work was an apologia or defense of his faith and a statement of the doctrinal position of the reformers. |
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Many of these letters contain questions about church reform and liturgical or doctrinal matters. |
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The Reformation in Switzerland led to doctrinal division amongst the cantons. |
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He succeeded as a theologian despite his juridical training and his comparatively late handling of Biblical and doctrinal subjects. |
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Without higher courts to ensure doctrinal uniformity among the congregations, Congregationalists have been more diverse than other Reformed churches. |
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The doctrinal positions of Lutheran churches are not uniform because the Book of Concord does not hold the same position in all Lutheran churches. |
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Contrariwise, Sykes notes a high degree of commonality in Anglican liturgical forms, and in the doctrinal understandings expressed within those liturgies. |
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Winning large numbers of adherents in its early years because of its nationalist roots, Aglipayan numbers decreased due to factionalism and doctrinal disagreements. |
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The tragedy in all this is that there lies in the whole criminological and penological disciplines an enormous contradiction, a doctrinal incompatibility. |
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It proved an extremely successful design for a littoral fast attack craft, but due to fiscal reasons and doctrinal change in the Navy, the hovercraft was soon withdrawn. |
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To illustrate this point, one needs to look at the doctrinal function of PIRs and their current use in exercises and stability operations and support operations. |
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The DTD is a simple doctrinal model that contains eight stations. |
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Louis IV was assisted in his doctrinal dispute with the papacy by Marsilius of Padua and later by the English Franciscan friar and scholar William of Ockham. |
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The reform movement soon split along certain doctrinal lines. |
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Samuel Harsnett was a ceremonialist disciplinarian who began the potentially explosive strategy of redefining Calvinism itself as doctrinal Puritanism. |
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Regardless, these issues have incited debate over the parameters of domestic autonomy in doctrinal matters in the absence of international consensus. |
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These documents are Calvinistic in their doctrinal orientation. |
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This doctrinal stance is intended to enable Anglicanism to construct a theology that is pragmatic, focused on the institution of the church, yet engaged with the world. |
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The communities to which he writes, apart from Rome, seem to be facing serious doctrinal division, from Judaizers on one side to Docetists on the other. |
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The Church of England affirms the Protestant Reformation principle that scripture contains all things necessary to salvation and is the final arbiter in doctrinal matters. |
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Hence, it is not so much a body of doctrinal statements so much as the process of doctrinal development that is important in Anglican theological identity. |
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The effort was to create a national church in legal continuity with its traditions, but inclusive of certain doctrinal and liturgical beliefs of the Reformers. |
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