Sentence examples for doctrinal statements from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

Pius IV confirmed the council's decrees in 1564 and published a summary of its doctrinal statements; observance of disciplinary decrees was imposed under sanctions.

Roman Catholic doctrinal statements are not usually called confessions, but the presentation of the distinctive points of Catholic dogma in the Decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent (1564) is as fully elaborated as are Protestant confessional writings.

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.

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.

And it questions the doctrinal statement on Liberty's Web site, which says, among other things, that the Bible is "authoritative in all matters".