Sentence examples for Doctrinal statement from inspiring English sources

It is required of a doctrinal statement that it be clear and cogent, but doctrines always point past their logical surface to some primitive revelation or deposit of faith.

The Nicene Creed exists in two versions and represents a new type of doctrinal statement.

Thirty-nine Artheles, the doctrinal statement of the Church of England.

The doctrinal statement affirms traditional Christology, the inerrancy of the Bible, and the premillennial Second Coming of Jesus.

In the same doctrinal statement, adopted last June, the group advocated a literal interpretation of the Bible.

The first Universalist Church was formed in 1779, and in 1790 the Universalists adopted a doctrinal statement and plan for church government at a convention in Philadelphia.

Its doctrinal statements are the Apostles' and Nicene creeds and the Thirty-nine Articles.

We're not talking about the 39 articles or doctrinal statements.

The church inherited its doctrinal statements from the Church of England but does not apply these statements as rigid confessions.

Most doctrinal statements of this period, issued by councils or by individual theologians, were polemical documents directed against Western missionaries.

375 444), who emphasized the unity of Christ's humanity and divinity through the Incarnation, Philoponus criticized the doctrinal statements of Pope Leo I (440 461) and the Council of Chalcedon (451).