But doctrinal changes are helping too.
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).
The only significant doctrinal difference between the two religions is Trinitarianism and Christ worship, which weren't even part of Christianity until 400 years along.
Continuing opposition eventually led Frederick William IV to declare in 1852 that the union of Lutherans and Reformed was not doctrinal but only administrative.
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.
He meant that we are religious, but not doctrinal.
But these doctrinal debates are hard to kill.
Such investigations will not only elucidate mythological, ritualistic, doctrinal, aesthetic, and psychic motifs and themes but will also provide educative insights to modern people, who have been caught up in social and religious forces that they have found difficult to understand.
Abandoning the man he entrusted in 2006 to run the Vatican bureaucracy while he focused on doctrinal issues would only weaken the pope's authority.
