Since we live in an ideological age, our "circumcisions" consist in our issue-positions and doctrinal litmus tests.
But most evangelicals show that they don't really believe in this doctrine, because they come up with all kind of doctrinal and cultural litmus tests to determine who's really a Christian and who isn't.
The problems with the engines, failures of production priorities and Hitler's meddling are well known, but the long delay between operational testing, tactical and doctrinal development and training were largely Galland's fault.
"The examination tests on too broad a range of doctrinal law subjects and only a limited number of skills, often ineffectively," a 1992 research report by the organization said.
John Paul II, and Benedict after him, made such an issue of these matters of doctrinal purity that unswerving obedience to them became a kind of litmus test for determining a good Catholic.
Benedict's ambiguous role has made the Groër case a kind of Rorschach test of the future pope's treatment of sexual abuse during his long stewardship of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's powerful doctrinal body.
Predestination was its doctrinal core.
It was a perfectly doctrinal speech.
Syncretism is common, and doctrinal rigidity rare.
