What Francis seems to be looking for is not a doctrinal or political response to same-sex unions but a pastoral one: taking modern families as they are and live, and seeing how the Catholic Church can be part of their lives.
The doctrinal and political views of the Remonstrants were opposed by the conservative Gomarists (followers of Franciscus Gomarus), or Counter-Remonstrants.
Aging hippies, progressive Millennials, the ordained and the laity (no matter their doctrinal or political leanings) -- all hands are on deck.
Doctrinal, theological, and political differences, however, increasingly divided Constantinople from the Syrians.
In the Wars of Religion that followed, doctrinal differences fueled political ambitions and vice versa, in a deadly, vicious cycle that lasted a century and a half.
Overload and alienation can be expected to reach even higher levels in coming generations as still higher densities of population, intercultural contacts, and communication facilities cause economic, political, doctrinal, and commercial rivalries to become still more intense.
The authoritativeness of the Sunnah was further strengthened when Muslim scholars, in response to the wholesale fabrication of hadiths by supporters of various doctrinal, legal, and political positions, developed ʿilm al-ḥadīth, the science of attesting the authenticity of individual traditions.
The authors must have planned a special use of the enormous amount of foreign philosophical and scientific knowledge that is explained in the treatises and to develop it in relation to the doctrinal conflicts and political changes that were occurring in their own times.
There always will be doctrinal trivia and political allegiances that you are expected to hold, but aren't spelled out. .
What we have experienced is a level of pervasive cynicism among our leaders, in and outside of government, that serves selfish interests - be they political, doctrinal, pecuniary or purely careerist.
This proclamation took the brake off any attempt at laissez-faire in doctrinal matters; henceforth, the political was religious, the religious political, and conformity with the doctrine and practice of the Church of England became mandatory, with severe penalties for resistance.
