Its leaders are protected by a nimbus of mystery, pomp, holiness, and, in the case of the Pope, infallibility — to be sure, only in certain doctrinal matters, not administrative ones, but the aura is not so selective.
They and their followers look to other sources of political and doctrinal inspiration, not the official Saudi clerics.
The fact that his "Joy of the Gospel" contains few doctrinal changes does not mean, according to Tornielli, they may not be coming: "Given the things he has said about decentralization, it would be against that spirit of collegiality for him to announce major changes in doctrine all by himself.
Dogma is not doctrinal opinion, not the pronouncement of any given teacher, but doctrinal statute (decretum).
According to J.K.L. Gieseler, a 19th-century German church historian, in Dogmengeschichte, Dogma is not doctrinal opinion, not the pronouncement of any given teacher, but doctrinal statute (decretum).
He meant that we are religious, but not doctrinal.
The doctrinal issue was not finally settled until the Council of Constantinople in 381.
Conservatives in the Church saw it as a step toward ecumenical license, if not doctrinal collapse.
Her beliefs are "not doctrinal" but about the way people should behave toward one another, she adds.
This is a moment for pragmatism in the service of ambitious goals, not doctrinal purity that remains marginalized.
