Sentence examples for doctrinal controversies from inspiring English sources

Certain doctrinal points were defined by councils as a result of doctrinal controversies.

The doctrinal controversies in 16th-century Lutheranism are indicative of the difficulty of defining precisely what it means to be "Lutheran".

Later, during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the doctrinal controversies between Protestants and Roman Catholics raised fundamental epistemological issues about the bases and criteria of religious knowledge.

In his teachings he aimed to restore Christianity to its original simplicity while avoiding the prolix doctrinal controversies between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

Their doctrinal controversies and highly influential martyrdom narratives anticipate the development of Christian hagiography both as a genre and as a theological vehicle.

Miller, a historian, is very good at teasing out the connection between Graham's religious views and his evolving opinions on race, and the way that doctrinal controversies within evangelical Christianity (for instance, the argument between moderates and fundamentalists over whether God is a father to all mankind, or only to all believers) intersected with political debates about racial equality.

Each group charged the other with distortion of tradition, and each issued apologias and excommunications characteristic of medieval doctrinal controversy.

Among other works attributed to John are theological writings relative to Trinitarian doctrinal controversy, the "Catechetical Discourse," and instructions for religious initiation, the "Mystagogia".

It was also at the Council of Chalcedon which was convoked to resolve the doctrinal controversy between Antioch and Alexandria over the person of Jesus Christ that the council fathers accepted the formula proposed by Pope Leo I (reigned 440 461), which offered the orthodox teaching of Christ's Incarnation and of the union of both his natures.

C. 560 Damascus, Syria March 11, 638 Jerusalem, Israel Sophronius, (born c. 560, Damascus [Syria] died March 11, 638, Jerusalem) patriarch of Jerusalem, monk, and theologian who was the chief protagonist for orthodox teaching in the doctrinal controversy on the essential nature of Christ and his volitional acts.

Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated), Dutch Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (vrijgemaakt), also called Gereformeerde Kerken vrijgemaakt, Protestant church in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition that arose in the Netherlands in 1944 out of a doctrinal controversy within the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Nederlands Gereformeerde Kerken).