There's always a difference in doctrines -- we have Catholics and Presbyterians and the Assembly of God coming together and over 300 volunteers in all -- but we all believe in God, and we all knew we had to pull this together for the youth of Hunterdon County".
Second, young people today "consider religion to be a pursuit of the individual" and therefore downplay differences in ritual and doctrine; they minimize the requirements of faith by conceiving of faith as something without a specific content that might become the source of friction.
He also frequently points out what he takes to be clear evidence of hypocrisy, namely that those who are so quick to persecute others for small differences in worship or doctrine are relatively unconcerned with much more obvious moral sins that pose an even greater threat to their eternal state.
But there are differences between the two chancellors, in doctrine and results.
But Europe remains more fragmented (see chart 2): mergers have been held up by clashes of national interest, as well as by differences in legal systems, military doctrine and business culture.Even where agreement has been reached on pooling equity, smoothing out these differences can take a disproportionate amount of management time, negating some of the savings that might have been made.
Al-Ma'mun's victory also had repercussions in the Abbasid official theological doctrine: in 829, al-Ma'mun adopted Mu'tazilism, in an attempt reconcile doctrinal differences in Islam and reduce social inequities.
While Roman and Celtic Christianity were very similar in doctrine and both accepted ultimate papal authority, there were differences in practice.
Catastrophism, doctrine that explains the differences in fossil forms encountered in successive stratigraphic levels as being the product of repeated cataclysmic occurrences and repeated new creations.
"At the schoolhouse, you're training in doctrine," she said.
Are these practices based in doctrine?
