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"doctrinal" Definitions
  1. relating to a doctrine or doctrines

296 Sentences With "doctrinal"

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Muller, a conservative, was often seen to be in a difficult position as head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, between supporting the Pope's changes and reconciling them with the doctrinal rules.
Evangelicalism once referred to a specific set of doctrinal beliefs.
These doctrinal points Justice Kennedy neglected are not mere niceties.
He compares Mr Xi's role to that of the pope: "The general secretary, armed with doctrinal infallibility, like the pope, is a rule-giver, spiritual nurturer and voice of doctrinal purity and correctness," he writes.
Politicians who submit to such doctrinal pressures threaten their own authenticity.
The technique highlights the doctrinal issue, central to Catholics, of transubstantiation.
Francis has also shied away from big changes on doctrinal matters.
None of the doctrinal norms in planning for future conflicts applies.
Thus the impetus behind Bach's remark was not progressivist but doctrinal.
There are adverse consequences for the nation in adherence to doctrinal conservatism.
Conservatives have previously based their attacks on the pope on doctrinal grounds.
"The document is not radically different from similar doctrinal publications," he said.
However, India's doctrinal changes may convince Beijing to revisit its nuclear doctrine.
Holding office, not doctrinal purity, has always been its No. 1 goal.
Like other sacred texts, the film invites doctrinal arguments and esoteric inquiries.
My parents weren't doctrinal, and themselves had a liberal take on church teachings.
Is the fate of the earth a practical matter or a doctrinal one?
Despite their doctrinal differences, Sunni Islamists initially saw Iran's revolution as an inspiration.
These kinds of doctrinal beliefs reside not only inside evangelical or fundamentalist churches.
Planning for the Crete meeting has been dogged by doctrinal and political disputes.
"Doctrinal reform is arduous, often-Sisyphean work," Willett observed in last month's concurrence.
A moderate conservative, schooled in electoral politics, she prized pragmatism over doctrinal purity.
Criticism of GSEs emanates from mostly doctrinal partisans on one side or another.
She challenges the Mormon church's claim that worthiness interviews are a doctrinal necessity.
After Eisenhower, some Republicans pushed the party to the right and toward doctrinal purity.
Later, leery of increasingly doctrinal socialist ideas, he and Eve dropped their Democratic affiliation.
He spent more time in his key opinions discussing the ephemeral than the doctrinal.
His own attitude toward art was pragmatic: it could be used for doctrinal instruction.
At the time, Benedict was a cardinal and head of the Vatican's doctrinal office.
"We are not seeking to engage in doctrinal questions of the church," he said.
It is the official doctrinal position of the SBC, thanks in part to Patterson himself.
Francis' American appointments elevate moderates in the church hierarchy, bypassing doctrinal conservatives from large archdioceses.
It is certainly true that most Christian rock bands were obliged to follow doctrinal rules.
Mostly, congregations across denominations and doctrinal divides are uniting to offer spiritual support where needed.
The more élite these groups became, the more they were prone to furious doctrinal disputes.
In these situations, ordinary folk, not the priestly class, were the guardians of doctrinal correctness.
To be sure, there are good doctrinal reasons for this, if one wants to find them.
Still, the faith also holds firm to doctrinal opposition of same-sex marriage and sexual intimacy.
His approach is radically pastoral, not doctrinal; it is one of "accompaniment" as he often says.
That conflict bears some doctrinal resemblance to the initial Allied operations in the Second World War.
The dubia began as a private letter, as is usual with such requests for doctrinal clarity.
"The doctrinal evolution has enabled stops for what is often called 'driving while black,'" Hamilton wrote.
While the English Reformation was underway, Europe was electrified by Martin Luther's doctrinal attack against Catholicism.
If he had to wait for another day to achieve his doctrinal agenda, so be it.
To conservative true believers, that's the equivalent of asking the arch-heretic's advice on doctrinal matters.
This reversal significantly expands the doctrinal shades of gray within an overwhelmingly black-and-white faith.
Hermann Geissler, chief of staff in the Vatican's doctrinal office, denied the allegation, the Vatican said.
He described the decision as a "commitment to Bavarian identity and culture" which was not explicitly doctrinal.
The US military is proud of the Marines' wider doctrinal task to represent US national power overseas.
Doctrinal purity mattered less to him than extracting even the most gossamer claim to a favorable result.
These investments and doctrinal shifts will not be easy to secure, but they are worth the risk.
First, the Army needs to lead a doctrinal renaissance focused on its role in great power competition.
Spence, who fancies himself the theorist, has doubts about Jenny's doctrinal (or, at any rate, sexual) devotion.
Intrigues and doctrinal disputes within the Eastern Orthodox Church often spool out over decades, if not centuries.
Critics of Mr. Cummings said his campaign was less about encouraging intellectual ferment than enforcing doctrinal orthodoxy.
Of course, there's a great deal of doctrinal variety within Islam, just as there is within Christianity.
They are currently handled by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the Vatican's doctrinal department.
If all believers are priests, charged with working out their own salvation, then doctrinal divisions will necessarily proliferate.
The difficulty is that this goal clashes with another dear to the pontiff's heart: that of doctrinal liberalisation.
A calm and cool China may also look for the prospects of doctrinal shift vis-a-vis India.
The Supreme Court's ruling in Abbasi rested on two fundamental flaws — one of them doctrinal, the other, analytical.
But the Islamic State was originally formed by Qaeda elements, and the two groups have many doctrinal similarities.
After all, Francis still seems to be upholding the Catholic doctrinal line that homosexuality is, in fact, a sin.
That crack in the doctrinal door annoyed many conservatives, who fear Francis' upcoming document may open the flood gates.
Without claiming to have settled any doctrinal differences, they agreed to set aside their ancient "anathemas" or mutual denunciations.
American civil religion is no spiritual substitute for personal piety or the rich theological doctrinal specifics of individual denominations.
Last year, the pope fired Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the German cardinal and critic who was the church's doctrinal watchdog.
For its part, the Ilse house demonstrates that the Bauhaus could inspire mash-ups as well as doctrinal purity.
The official vow that those marooned on Manus and Nauru will never live in Australia has assumed doctrinal vehemence.
It simultaneously resents being criticised for its passivity, wants to preserve its doctrinal purity and absolutely loves all the attention.
Burleson, who spoke to me from an overseas missions trip, emphasized that his objection to Patterson is doctrinal, not personal.
Bannon responded that on doctrinal issues, he respects Catholic leaders, naming Pope Francis and Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.
Last week, Benedict's doctrinal chief, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, said he knew nothing about any formal or informal sanctions against McCarrick.
When questioning counsel, Sotomayor would rather zero in on factual flaws and spurious assumptions than spin out twisty doctrinal hypotheticals.
Therefore it would be unwise for India to go for doctrinal changes in world's one of the most fragile region.
Typology was looked upon less as a scholarly path to intellectual understanding than as a doctrinal path to spiritual comfort.
The pieces of fabric become slow-motion photograms, ghostly physical evidence of the church's great wealth and its doctrinal fixity.
And if change is needed for the established doctrinal guidance for judicial deference, the Court—not Congress—can provide it.
Five years ago, the family had been shunned from the Jehovah's Witness church because of "doctrinal and social issues", she claims.
Francis has never suggested that he advocates for doctrinal change, or a change in the church's formal antipathy toward LGBTQ sexuality.
When the English Reformation did away with purgatory, ghosts were still spotted, "apparently unaware that they had been declared doctrinal impossibilities".
This caused embarrassment in the Vatican because it appeared to contradict the catechism of the Catholic church, its formal doctrinal statement.
Regarding the outsized attention from lawmakers the case was getting, DeGirolami noted that the issues at stake extended beyond doctrinal disputes.
He is the only man on earth with the power and authority to speak on behalf of God regarding doctrinal matters.
Their policies have serious political implications, and they reveal how far the right-wing will go to preserve its doctrinal purity.
Pearson is soon in the throes of a crisis of faith, which is only resolved by his doctrinal change of heart.
Nevertheless, I call him "the pope of hints" because of his ambivalent suggestions on several doctrinal and policy controversies in Catholicism.
Father Geissler, an Austrian, was a section head in the Vatican doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
A better way of describing Iran's dictatorship is as a kleptotheocracy, driven by impulses that are by turns doctrinal and venal.
Along with these doctrinal purposes, Augustine's obsessive engagement with the story of Adam and Eve spoke to something in his life.
Conservative opponents fear it would be a doctrinal Trojan horse that would then spread to the entire Church in the West.
That's a high price to pay for indulging left-wing activists' demands for doctrinal purity and penchant for anti-capitalist posturing.
You can see similar partisan splits on other issues Pew polled, even ones of doctrinal relevance like abortion and climate change.
In the book, the dominant "religion" is moving to seize doctrinal control, and religious denominations familiar to us are being annihilated.
Francis fired Cardinal Müller in 2017 as the top doctrinal watchdog in the Roman Catholic Church, removing a powerful ideological opponent.
Benedict was head of the Vatican's doctrinal office when the first wave of abuse cases were exposed in Boston in 2002.
She later described feeling like she was in "doctrinal limbo" because there is no universal teaching on gender from the church.
Strikingly, however, doctrinal changes are often agreed to by so-called originalist justices who vote for non-originalist interpretations (without admitting it).
Popes have occasionally sent representatives in to crack the whip over monastic orders suspected of veering from the doctrinal straight-and-narrow.
"Although he is conservative, Muller never openly criticized the Pope for doctrinal matters," commented Vatican expert Andrea Gagliarducci of Catholic News Agency.
First, a distinction is being drawn between doctrine and pastoral practice that claims that merely pastoral change can leave doctrinal truth untouched.
Conservatives have rightly criticized the judicial manufacture of rights; let us not make the mirror-image mistake of urging immediate doctrinal demolition.
The Army has now evolved to a new Doctrinal "Operations" approach which places an even greater premium upon winning major power land wars.
That small doctrinal shift could eventually completely change the world as we know it, and this crash only serves to prove that point.
He is likely to stand firm on similar doctrinal commitments, to reach similar outcomes, and be an articulate defender of conservative judicial theory.
The International Theological Commission, an advisory body to the Vatican's doctrinal office, considered female deacons in 2002, but it reached rather muddy conclusions.
And so in addition to a doctrinal division, a visual schism between the north and the south, the Protestant and the Catholic, opened.
Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, the Vatican's former chief doctrinal official and a leading conservative critic of the pope, called it "a document of reconciliation".
The doctrinal power exists to allow an administration to keep private some internal discussions so that there can be candid deliberation about policy.
Francis's remarks are likely to cheer Catholic traditionalists, who are increasingly prone to accusing the pope of confusing the flock on doctrinal matters.
This view has been echoed by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the church's chief doctrinal watchdog until Pope Francis forced him out in 2017.
Belton, a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, whose doctrinal statement condemns homosexuality, said he would never vote for Buttigieg because he is gay.
Chatter on conservative blogs regularly accuses the Argentine pontiff of spreading doctrinal confusion and isolating those who see themselves as guardians of the faith.
Bucklew, which was decided after Kennedy left the Court, was the Court's first attempt to put some doctrinal heft behind Glossip's defense of executions.
Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull: When property disputes reflect religious cleavages, courts should avoid entanglement with the doctrinal issues and hew closely to civil law.
The crucial doctrinal difference, as it would turn out, is that the Sephardim prohibit the disposition of ritual objects and the Ashkenazi do not.
He's able to signal sympathy for progressive theology, but does not have the responsibility of answering to conservatives or formally advocating for doctrinal change.
Chick was a true cultural separatist whose doctrinal views were heavily influenced by works like The Fundamentals and Charles Finney's Power From On High.
Both wish to be seen as uncommonly common men more mindful of those left behind than the doctrinal boundaries of their faith, or politics.
B ut the Vatican's doctrinal office — the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith — refused to disseminate it to bishops' conferences around the world.
The doctrinal flaw was that the court completely ignored the rich history of damages suits brought against federal officers before the 1971 Bivens decision.
At one Colorado colony, a dozen children died from malnutrition in 1906, and other start-ups since then have been plagued with doctrinal disputes.
This means Episcopal leaders are unable to represent the Anglican faith in ecumenical settings, and will not be allowed to participate in doctrinal decisions.
Perhaps religion has something to do with it: Taoism and Buddhism, the country's most widespread faiths, have less doctrinal objection to homosexuality than many religions.
The church's desire to reach out to gay members is coupled with a doctrinal imperative to take a protective stance in advocating for traditional marriage.
While the previous site prominently displayed the church's doctrinal stance against homosexual activity on its homepage, the new materials feature the stories of gay members.
Deciding whether a Church member is a heretic is the job of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog department.
Prosecutors said Ahmed and Yusuf abandoned their homes in Sweden in 2008 to travel to Somalia to undergo military and doctrinal training with al Shabaab.
The future role of Burke, the institution's "patron," or chaplain, who has openly challenged the pope on a host of doctrinal issues, was not clear.
Its discovery prompted an outcry, especially among Catholic conservatives who complained that their hero, Pope Benedict, was being exploited to paper over Francis' doctrinal deficiencies.
She introduced Gerhard Ludwig Müller, a German Cardinal who was fired by Francis from his position as the church's top doctrinal watchdog, to Mr. Bannon.
A cultural conservative, he represents a camp within the Vatican that has pressed the pope to strengthen the church's doctrinal opposition to same-sex marriage.
"It provides a very attractive way to leave the injunction in place without setting broader doctrinal rules about which they may have pause," Vladeck said.
The term "hybrid threat" is an intelligence and warfare targeting doctrinal concept that recognizes the intersection of hostile nation-state and non-nation state threat typologies.
Doctrinal work, on the other hand, which does examine specific rules, may be of limited value because legal doctrine does not decide the most significant cases.
Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, 71, a German who was the Vatican's doctrinal chief until 2017, issued the four-page manifesto on Friday via conservative Catholic media outlets.
She said the Church's ban on a female priesthood had "locked women out of any significant role in the Church's leadership, doctrinal development and authority structure".
On the other hand, even when religion is highly experimental and blurs the doctrinal contours, it continues to draw selectively on older texts, teachings and symbols.
" Doctrinal revolution An ideological problem facing any possible peace treaty would be North Korea's doctrine which emphasizes "liberating" the South in a move towards "national reunification.
A corollary to Cruz's doctrinal belief in the utility of dictatorships in achieving U.S foreign policy goals is his rejection of the value of promoting democracy.
At the same time, Francis has allowed a tacit decentralization of doctrinal authority, in which different countries and dioceses can take different approaches to controversial questions.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a doctrinal text approved by Pope John Paul II in 1992, suicide is an affront to God's love.
Luis Ladaria of Spain, who heads the Holy See's powerful office in charge of ensuring doctrinal orthodoxy and, like the pope, is a Jesuit; and Msgr.
He argued for greater openness in debating such doctrinal questions as contraception, the ordination of women and whether to allow divorced Catholics to receive the sacraments.
They asked him to consider the doctrinal change announced by Pope Francis in early August, whereby the Catholic church now holds that capital punishment is always wrong.
In 1985 Mr Boff was ordered to observe a year's theological silence by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict, who was then the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog.
Mormon theology is founded on a core doctrinal belief that marriage between a man and a woman is essential for salvation in the highest levels of heaven.
There will also be observers who wonder why the President would elevate the conservative critique on bureaucracy into his doctrinal speech about the fate of Western civilization.
"Technology is an integral part of our future, and we need an entrepreneurial approach to legal education because it is still such a doctrinal approach," said Haar.
Some liken the gathering to the last of the great doctrinal councils in 787; others compare it to more recent gatherings like one in Jerusalem in 1672.
When confronted with the realities of abuse, it covers it up, retreats to a defensive crouch, or attributes abuse to external, rather than internal or doctrinal, factors.
With Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI, as John Paul II's doctrinal watchdog, the Vatican actively investigated and silenced theologians with a different vision of the church.
Nor does Francis, despite his compassion for African migrants to the rich world, find the African church easy to navigate, given the doctrinal conservatism of its leaders.
Some have refused, fearing that it could jeopardize their fidelity to the pope as their religious leader and the independence of the local Church on doctrinal matters.
Not that Mr. Aronofsky follows any known doctrinal path, any more than he did in "Noah," which upset some believers by taking liberties with its scriptural source.
On Wednesday, the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, rejected his appeal, and Mr. McCarrick was notified on Friday of its decision.
In 2011, the Vatican's doctrinal office issued directives telling bishops they had to establish "clear and coordinated" procedures for fighting clerical sex abuse by the following year.
What happens next is outlined in a doctrinal manual entitled "Joint Publication 5.0, Joint Operations Planning," which, interestingly, is not classified and can be found on the web.
" The race laws the fascist government enacted were a "doctrinal mistake," he said, because "the fascist doctrine talks about the unity of all the bodies of the nation.
In many (but not all) cases Francis's neo-conservative foes line up with his doctrinal critics, whose wrath was kindled by another papal document, Amoris Laetitia, from 2016.
Catholics and Protestants quarrelled bitterly and bloodily over doctrinal matters, such as the Protestant doctrine that humans are saved by virtue of their faith, not their good works.
Cruz said he was "emotionally drained" but felt empathy from Scicluna and another priest from the Vatican's doctrinal office in Rome who also took part in the meeting.
So while he hasn't made any doctrinal changes yet, the shifts in tone he has made may actually be his way of laying the groundwork for later changes.
Since coming to Rome in 2001 he has emerged as standard-bearer-in-chief of the traditionalists: Roman Catholics who prize doctrinal certainty over adapting to changing times.
It finds tension in opposing forces of common sense and fanaticism, contemporary views and doctrinal antiquity, the reality of fighting for IS and the glory the group promises.
The logic of "Rome has spoken, the case is closed" is too deeply embedded in the structures of Catholicism to allow for anything but a temporary doctrinal decentralization.
The fact that many of these rulings have come from Republican appointees or centrist Democrats and that they are often rooted in sound doctrinal principles is left out.
"I was a little bit disappointed," Cardinal Gerhard Müller, a German conservative appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the church's chief doctrinal watchdog, said in a recent interview.
Mao had looked to the Soviet Union as an ideological soul mate and source of expertise, but relations soured over doctrinal rifts and Chinese resentment of Russian dominance.
But recent policy changes to church disciplinary handbooks for local leaders requiring the excommunication of members in same-sex marriages affirm that the church's doctrinal stances remain the same.
The pope's decision was made known in a letter by Archbishop Luis Ladaria, head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, to Cardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the German bishops' conference.
Often, controversies are imbued with a theological weight when the college maintains they are handled according to Wheaton's doctrinal convictions, even if it is at odds with students' interpretations.
Taylor told the outlet that he was aware that The Firs was a faith-based organization that had a doctrinal statement condemning homosexuality on the website when he applied.
But rather than donate the familial fortune to causes that broadly benefit society, Moss and Baden say the Greens restrict their largesse to charities that meet strict doctrinal standards.
By enshrining Mr. Xi's ideas as "a new component of the party's guide for action," the party is putting Mr. Xi on a doctrinal pedestal alongside Mao and Deng.
Arguments based on economics as a cause of interfaith conflict may resonate in academia but some Catholic leaders from Africa are pressing Francis to serve up stronger doctrinal medicine.
He is fascinated by the petty doctrinal arguments and personal rivalries in the ranks of the Animal Liberation Front and also by the boardroom intrigue within the Mirando Corporation.
"The more the BJP focuses on those core doctrinal symbolic policies, the less it's perceived to be caring for the economy, which shows no sign of recovery," he said.
The groundwork is laid for the show to explore matters of religious faith — styles of doctrinal interpretation and application, limits of belief, the meaning of temptation in the modern age.
People who are hung up on doctrinal changes — angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin arguments over whether divorced Catholics can receive communion or not — are missing the big picture.
It's also possible that one of his four Republican colleagues would vote to preserve a decision like Virginia either for an idiosyncratic doctrinal reason or out of respect for precedent.
The move means that Pell, who maintains his innocence and plans to appeal the verdict, could be dismissed from the priesthood if the Vatican's doctrinal department also finds him guilty.
There are all kinds of problems with the way organized religion has interfaced with politics, and doctrinal ideology tempts us to give up reconciling ourselves to the weirdness of life.
Some are in communion with Rome, others with Greek and Russian Orthodoxy, still others have subtle doctrinal differences with all the above but keep friendly terms with their co-religionists elsewhere.
To be sure, his relentlessly logical approach and doctrinal consistency dramatically influenced the court, even his liberal colleagues, to look to the text and the plain meaning of provisions under review.
Although the ecumenical service on Monday marked a reconciliation, there are still major doctrinal differences between the churches, on subjects like the role of women in the church and the Eucharist.
The document, called "Considerations for an Ethical Discernment Regarding Some Aspects of the Present Economic-Financial System," was jointly prepared by the Vatican's doctrinal office and its department on human development.
His nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency's top clean air post, William Wehrum, is a retread from the George W. Bush administration with a deep doctrinal dislike of clean air regulations.
This conservatism served him well both under Pope John Paul II, who made him a cardinal in 2003, and Pope Benedict, who worked with him in the Vatican's powerful doctrinal office.
"I'm the last person in the world who's going to help the parties resolve their doctrinal differences," said Mr. Feinberg, who assisted in the church's mediation on a pro bono basis.
His command has the tough mission of "providing leadership, doctrinal guidance, resources and oversight" to an organization that is considered by many the best small-unit fighting force in the world.
An appeals court overturned two insider trading cases, forcing him to seek the dismissals of seven similar convictions, and said his office was using a "doctrinal novelty" to prosecute the cases.
Archbishop Scicluna subsequently explained that Benedict, previously John Paul's chief doctrinal watchdog, had undergone a conversion on the issue as he sat at his desk reading horrific dossier after horrific dossier.
This doctrinal departure from trickle-down economics, which I call level-up economics, is the implicit thread running through the policy platforms of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls, both active and recently suspended.
To nearly everyone's surprise, then-Chief Judge Kozinski agreed with her that her five-second performance had an independent copyright, a move that went against traditional doctrinal understandings of authorship and fixation.
The book was from the Islamic State's Research and Studies Office, a department of the terrorist group's now-defunct state in Syria and Iraq that issued doctrinal texts buttressing its brutal worldview.
The church's leader remains attuned to the problems of the world -- in this case the ecological destruction of the Amazon -- while raising unresolved debates within his church about doctrinal and dogmatic matters.
His successor, Pope Benedict, who read many of the ghastly reports during his time as the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog, made key policy changes to protect children and hold priests accountable for abuse.
He discusses matters like the order of sacrifices in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, the doctrinal arguments between different Jewish sects in the Roman Empire, and the varieties of Jewish mysticism, or Kabbalah.
And as the Trump era has moved toward its Kavanaugh crescendo, the Catholic drama has also escalated, with the church's doctrinal conflict and its sex abuse scandal converging in a single destabilizing crisis.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, a doctrinal conservative, issued guidelines last year that insist that divorced Catholics who have remarried must live "as brother and sister" if they wish to receive communion.
This doctrinal evolution is one of the most quietly significant aspects of contemporary policy and politics, helping explain both why Trump won the election in 2016 and why he has decent odds in 2020.
In certain cases, this anti-doctrinal impulse is a reaction to global events: since 9/11, some people have moved away from strict, traditional faiths, feeling that religious zeal is a cause of hatred.
While he has always formally maintained the Catholic doctrinal line that homosexual behavior is a sin, some of his more off-the-cuff remarks to journalists have suggested a personal reticence to render judgment.
But in a statement on Wednesday, it appeared to backtrack, saying the doctrinal department "is awaiting the outcome of the ongoing proceedings and the conclusion of the appellate process prior to taking up the case".
Of the approximately 60 departments in the Holy See, about 10 must be headed by priests because they deal with governance and jurisdiction over other ordained ministers or other sensitive doctrinal matters, the Church says.
That was enough for us, along with three other scholars on both sides of the aisle, to put our many differences aside and file a brief in the court to set the doctrinal record straight.
The plot may hinge on Ahmed's actions and motivations, but the film's real drama revolves around a central moral and political conflict, between religious extremism and a humanist ethos that is more behavioral than doctrinal.
During the pope's trip to Philadelphia, Cardinal Müller was also reported to have offered internal support to four conservative cardinals who wrote a letter to Francis questioning the doctrinal soundness of his position on divorce.
Malvo, in other words, could tell us whether Bucklew was simply a one-off effort to come up with a doctrinal justification for the death penalty, or whether it was the beginning of a constitutional revolution.
The Mormon church has shifted its tone to be more welcoming and compassionate toward gays and lesbians but hasn&apost changed its doctrinal opposition of same-sex marriage and belief that homosexual relations are a sin.
Carlo Pioppi, a professor of church history at Santa Croce University in Rome, said the appearance by the three leaders showed they could put aside doctrinal and theological differences to highlight their shared concern about refugees.
The Bible's influences on the Constitution were manifested in several ways: First, general theological or doctrinal propositions regarding human nature, civil authority, political society, and the like informed conceptions and institutions of law and civil government.
It is to say that the view of marriage as a marker in a culture war — a doctrinal asymptote, a line that may be approached but not crossed — is itself a greatly diminished view of marriage.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's doctrinal watchdog, is also expected to issue to its bishops around the world a handbook of best practices for preventing and reporting abuse in the church.
Transgender Catholics like Thomas say they feel they are in doctrinal limbo since, although there is extensive teaching on sexuality that applies to lesbian and gay Catholics, there is no universal church teaching on transgender identity.
While the court didn't directly address these questions, it paved the way for their resolution, free from doctrinal anachronisms and sensitive to the threats to individual rights in the bold but scary world of modern technology.
Yet while Hobby Lobby was a doctrinal earthquake — erasing the old rule that religious objectors may not undercut the rights of people who do not share their beliefs — the opinion itself was fairly limited in scope.
Having no treaty, doctrinal or policy obligations requiring a military response, U.S. objectives are met simply by maintaining the sanctions regime in place, bolstering Saudi defenses and working with allies to both isolate and engage Iran.
The Second Amendment still faces foundational uncertainties with regard to a wide range of doctrinal and theoretical questions — far more so than the First Amendment, which has generated a century's worth of case law and scholarship.
The conversation will be richer as he labours longer at the literary and doctrinal interface between the monotheisms, which like the Holy Sepulchre is need of careful conservation as well as strenuous efforts to keep the peace.
"Obviously there are issues that are doctrinal but the point that we were making and which I think he (Parolin) accepted is that this is absolutely about the Church's teaching about respecting human dignity," she told reporters.
The document, now being translated from the original Spanish, is expected to tell young people that they should not be obsessed with doctrinal minutiae but blend the Church's rules with social activism to help those in need.
In an apparent effort to buttress Francis against criticism from conservatives for breaking with his predecessor's doctrinal orthodoxy, Monsignor Vigano held a news conference last week to publicize a new series of books about the pope's theology.
The political class's doctrinal concerns fail to address a fundamental problem: Fannie and Freddie's existence directly impacts both first-time homebuyers' ability to own and the net worth of a significant portion of the American middle class.
So Trump's trashing of two-state doctrinal orthodoxy — "I'm looking at two-state and one-state and I like the one that both parties like" — at least had the merit of constituting a break with a sham.
On the other hand, upholding the doctrinal purity of eastern Christianity against all comers (in practice, against the Catholics) has been one the country's raisons d'être since the 16th century, at least in the eyes of Russian nationalists.
The decade-long doctrinal transition from Active Defense to AirLand Battle, as well as the more recent emphasis on counterinsurgency, serve as well-documented examples for how the Army responds to these inflection points in a comprehensive way.
He approached cases not as a philosopher ready to slot each issue into a doctrinal or theoretical cubbyhole, but as a judge charged with reaching the fairest, most defensible decision in the particular case in front of him.
Doctrinal differences, they said, would stop Pakistanis falling under the sway of the Syria-based militant group, which has demanded the fealty of the world's Muslims ever since its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared himself "caliph" in 2014.
The Anglo-American writer Andrew Sullivan, a "punk Tory" in his youth, went so far as to hail "South Park Republicans": irreverent young people driven rightward by the priggishness of the other side more than by any doctrinal commitment.
Two other senior Vatican officials were also moved into the top ranks of the Church - Spanish Bishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, who is the head of the Vatican's doctrinal department, and Italian Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the deputy secretary of state.
"The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right" is full of references to doors left open, pathways marked out, foundations laid, doctrinal tools provided — opportunities eagerly taken up by the Rehnquist court and, now, the Roberts court.
"We have information that Ashmawy and Abd al-Hamid broke away from (Islamic State) after a third colleague of theirs was killed and also for doctrinal issues," said one officer with Egypt's Homeland Security agency on condition of anonymity.
But John Paul II and Benedict sought to dispel any notion of an ecclesial revolution, and, during their papacies, conservative Catholics largely accepted their argument that Vatican II was completely compatible with the doctrinal dispensations that had preceded it.
Just how angry his political and doctrinal enemies are became clear this weekend, when a caustic letter published by the Vatican's former top diplomat in the United States blamed a "homosexual current" in the Vatican hierarchy for sexual abuse.
His eight-year papacy was noted for its doctrinal orthodoxy but also for public-relations disasters — including an early speech that offended much of the Muslim world — that church experts said sapped influence and power from the shy German.
Another one is Freedman himself: With no small British coyness, he quotes and praises a major doctrinal speech about military intervention by Tony Blair, burying in an endnote the fact that he helped the prime minister to write it.
Answering that question required the justices to consider doctrinal crosscurrents, including what earlier cases have called "the play in the joints" between two clauses of the First Amendment, which bar government establishment of religion and guarantee its free exercise.
On Thursday, activists from the groups Future Church, Women's Ordination Conference and Voices of Faith projected a light sign, "Votes For Catholic Women," on the doors of the Vatican's powerful doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The late-20th-century Latin American religious movement known as liberation theology, which aimed to help the poor through political activism, was strongly condemned by John Paul II. But it has found its doctrinal feet in Argentine Francis' teachings on poverty.
Of course, they will say, it was all a very long time ago, and (as the emollient, inter-faith commemorations of last year brought home) doctrinal differences within Western Christianity are no longer seen as a reason to burn one another.
But its archbishop, Charles J. Chaput, has been an uninhibited critic of Francis on doctrinal matters, expressing concern that his leadership has confused the church by leaving open the prospect that priests may give communion to divorced and remarried Catholics.
So far the current sex abuse agony has been punctuated by a papal revision of church teaching on the death penalty and a dramatic, high-risk deal with the Communist government in Beijing; this month's synod may provide further doctrinal punctuation.
I know many people struggled with the prior policy and although I think it came from a desire to avoid placing young children in conflict with their parents on doctrinal matters, this is probably a better, more flexible way forward.
Most are not traditionalists like Burke; they are simply conservatives, comfortable with the Pope John Paul II model of Catholicism, with its fusion of the traditional and modern, its attempt to maintain doctrinal conservatism while embracing the Second Vatican Council's reforms.
Although the Catholic Church is not a direct party in the Philadelphia case, it is clearly the central actor in its agency's dispute with the city, leaving no ambiguity about the doctrinal basis for the claimed right to an exemption.
Despite the deep doctrinal disputes that led to the split, the negotiations were "largely secular: process, governance, finances," said Kenneth R. Feinberg, the lawyer who helped craft the thorny settlements that arose from the 2010 BP oil spill and the Sept.
It was an open secret that Cardinal Tobin was sent to Indiana as a kind of exile most likely because he questioned an inquiry by his office into supposed doctrinal lapses among the roughly 203,000 nuns in the United States.
Francis told a story about how Benedict, then known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, when he was the church's chief doctrinal watchdog, sought to disband a religious order, apparently The Legionaries of Christ, which was riddled with sexual and economic corruption.
Critics accused Benedict, who before becoming pope in 19623 was for 23 years in charge of the Vatican doctrinal office that has been widely criticized for its handling of abuse cases, of trying to shift blame away from the church.
This means they attract charlatans, lunatics, frauds, and false prophets, and furious battles are waged over doctrinal hairsplitting; but it also means they inspire intransigent beliefs which can, and do, unify many thousands of wildly different people across continents and time zones.
The thing is, we have had a lot of discussion about the US foreign policy and how that has caused problems in the Muslim world, but we somehow shy away from talking about the equally important religious, doctrinal basis for these terrorist acts.
They are Spanish Monsignor Luis Ladaria, who heads the Holy See&aposs powerful office in charge of ensuring doctrinal orthodoxy, and, like the pope, is a Jesuit; and Italian Monsignor Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the No. 2 in the influential secretariat of state office.
The intersections between the two — and the attendant doctrinal, ethical, and mystical issues those intersections raise — are explored in Zig Zag Zen, a newly expanded edition of an anthology of essays, interviews, and artwork that was first published by Chronicle Books in 2002.
But he also went to the heart of accusations against him by some conservatives in the Church who say he has watered down emphasis on doctrinal matters and Church rules in favor of social issues such as migration, poverty and the environment.
The appeals court's cursory dismissal of Friedrichs's complaint demonstrates that it never had much doctrinal substance to begin with, and while Republicans may stall the president's nominations to the Court, Alito's marvelous adventure in a jurisprudential fantasyland has ground to a halt.
A truce with Beijing would differ from the truce with the sexual revolution in that no specific doctrinal issue is at stake, and no one doubts that the pope has authority to conclude a concordat with a heretofore hostile and persecuting regime.
But rather than overhauling the military's internal institutions — from doctrinal precepts to personnel management and education and training — to meet the new realities, successive administrations focused on depoliticizing the military and compensating its loss of power with arms modernization and budgetary increases.
The widening gulf between the pope and his top doctrinal enforcer made for a precarious position for Cardinal Müller, who expressed concern that too much focus on the "hype" surrounding the pope's personality and pastoral style distracted from the church's core beliefs.
The renewed focus on toilet-upgrading does seem to chime with a subtle doctrinal shift detected during the recent congress, at which a party long obsessed with boosting economic growth hinted that it would start looking for more holistic ways of improving citizens' lives.
On July 7th Pope Francis convened a meeting in the Italian port of Bari for Christian leaders with flocks in the Middle East and urged them to overcome their quarrels and doctrinal differences to work together for the welfare and survival of their embattled communities.
The constitutional wall between church and state means that the state has an obligation to protect the church's ability to conduct business in accordance with its doctrinal dictates—which means reform to doctrine, priestly oversight, education, and systems of accountability can only come from within.
"My sense is that the government is going to stick to its guns because these are not policies meant to produce an electoral advantage, these are policies for the BJP that are doctrinal and at the heart of what they believe in," Verniers told CNN.
Holding up an outrageous-sounding tweet as representative of the allegedly authoritarian heart of identity politics is a basic analytical error: confusing a platform problem, the way social media highlights the most extreme versions of all ideologies, with a doctrinal defect in identity politics.
Critics of Francis, must notably Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American who has been repeatedly demoted by Francis, have argued that Francis' emphasis on inclusiveness, and his loose approach to church law have confused the faithful on a range of doctrinal issues, from divorce to homosexuality.
Opponents could also cite his own words to show that he is what they say he is: An ideologue whose worldview is shaped by decades-old doctrinal disputes that have little to do with the urgent challenges facing Democrats or the broader country right now.
Jefferson believed the best way to ensure that both peace and religious liberty could flourish would be to educate citizens to avoid violent disagreements over trivial doctrinal distinctions through a constitutional regime that prevented government from favoring one set of religious beliefs over another.
For the US, such actions would represent a major change in policy, while for Russia, it would mean a continuation of ongoing force modernization, doctrinal changes and military exercises that regularly feature nuclear weapons such as limited-use options for warfighting and escalation control.
What makes this case significant, however, is that it could be the second phase of the doctrinal revolution that the Court began in Bucklew — and it could signal that criminal defendants enjoy far fewer protections against cruel and unusual punishments than they do under existing law.
College administrators found that Hawkins' "theological statements ... seemed inconsistent with Wheaton College's doctrinal convictions" because, in their eyes, she blurred the distinction between Christianity and Islam How outrageous is it that in 2016, a devout Christian is on the verge of being fired for, in essence, blasphemy?
Do conservatives simply declare victory, because the worst didn't happen, the full theological crisis didn't come, and it's important to maintain a basic deference to papal authority (itself a big part of the JPII-era conservative synthesis) so long as no doctrinal line is explicitly crossed?
But local bishops' conferences had requested doctrinal clarification because cremation has become increasingly popular and because there were "no specific canonical norms" for preserving ashes, according to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which drafted the guidelines.
But that fine movie was released in 1939, whereas "Tully" is—and could only be—the product of a time and a place in which parenting has become both a gerund and a secular faith, complete with devotees, dietary laws, doctrinal disputes, and a range of denominations.
Conservatives see this version of schism being advanced in Germany itself through a doctrinal renovation that the Vatican keeps trying to gently redirect, and in Rome through the upcoming synod on the Amazonian region, which they fear will undermine clerical celibacy and welcome pantheism and syncretism.
Who would rather read about some dry, multipronged doctrinal test than about 60,000 naked Hoosiers (in his nude-dancing opinion) or even just nine people selected at random from the Kansas City phone book (addressing the relative competence of the nine justices to decide right-to-die issues)?
"The possibility of loosening the rules about celibacy, about priests not being married, that could be possible, because a discipline is more open to change than a doctrinal position," Anthony Petro, a professor at Boston University who studies the intersection of sexuality and religion, said in an interview.
The Russian decision threw into doubt the opening of the gathering and highlighted longstanding doctrinal disagreements among Orthodox Christians as well as a struggle over the direction of the church between the Moscow Patriarchate and a rival leadership based in Istanbul, the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
The Christianity that Erasmus advocated — eschewing the finer points of metaphysics in favor of the humility, simplicity and charity he saw in Jesus of Nazareth — was overpowered by Luther's conviction that the Word of God, revealed in Scripture, speaks unambiguously on all doctrinal matters, no matter how abstruse.
He is happy to welcome, as essentially secular, those popular forms of meditation and mindfulness which insist on our being "present in the moment"; but he chides as religious and deluded those doctrinal aspects of Buddhism which insist on detachment, release from anxiety, and an overcoming of worldly desire.
ROME — Pope Francis earlier this year ordered Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the top doctrinal watchdog in the Roman Catholic Church, to fire three priests from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is the keeper of the church's orthodoxy and presides over investigations into sexual abuse.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, ending a month-long meeting on the theme of Catholic youth, told young people Sunday that in order to be good members of the Church they should not be obsessed with "doctrinal formulae" but blend its rules with social activism to help those in need.
Wang, the pastor of the Early Rain Church, was an early critic of the new rules, writing that the "government has no authority to direct or examine religious groups and religious activities in their doctrinal teaching and governing" in an essay that likely precipitated last week's raid on his church.
On issues like the role of women and acceptance of homosexuality, priests and bishops steeped in the doctrinal and social conservatism of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI continue to be opposed by Catholics who have moved to the left, and want to see the church change with the times.
But instead of entangling itself in history, and with it, doctrinal arguments being made by the groups — Shearith Israel was historically Sephardic, while Jeshuat Israel was mostly Ashkenazi — he wrote the court should just look at the 1903 agreement and other contracts as it would in any other civil law case.
To an extent, the Nashville Statement thus seems like something of a reactionary gesture — an attempt to foster unity in the evangelical community (uniting, say, pro-Trump figures like James Dobson with critical firebrands like Russell Moore) by appealing to a doctrinal issue — sexual ethics — that still unites many of them.
As Candida Moss, a professor of theology at the University of Birmingham and an expert on early Christianity explained in remarks to Hyperallergic, the site of a church can carry major significance to pilgrims and congregants alike: Many Christian Churches are built with direct reference to Biblical characters, gospel events, and doctrinal mechanics.
There is no standardised measurement of what it is to be world class and, in lieu of some sort of doctrinal convention at which all the Match of the Day pundits get together and decide exactly what the fuck they are talking about, we are doomed to meander about in the fog of definitional uncertainty forevermore.
"Obscure doctrinal differences" rarely make for compelling TV, but The Path gets away with this because of its tantalizing hints that there's more to Meyerism than meets the eye, that in spite of all of its faults (mostly stemming from its very human leadership), Meyerism has tapped into something real and potent at the center of the universe.
One reading of Pope Francis's intentions is that this is roughly what he wanted – a decentralized, quasi-Anglican approach to questions where the church and the post-sexual revolution culture are in conflict, in which different parts of the Catholic world could experiment with different doctrinal pastoral approaches to confession and communion for the remarried-without-annulment.
But at the same time, he and his allies have consistently – if not yet magisterially – expressed their strong preference for the more liberal side of the debate, suggesting that if they imagine a decentralization of doctrinal pastoral practice, they also imagine it being temporary, with any differences ultimately resolved in favor of a reformed approach to divorce, remarriage and the Eucharist.
Nor (just to explain its status) is it a full-blown encyclical, the high-level doctrinal declaration of the kind that was issued on the environment last year; technically it is an "apostolic exhortation" or a word of advice to priests, couples and families which sums up two major deliberations on the family which the pope has convened in the last couple of years.
He pioneered and advanced important analytical and defense concepts such as scenario planning, doctrinal innovation, and the analytical pitfall of mirror-imaging or assuming that a competitor would react to a situation in the same manner as the U.S. Each of these was a major contribution, but we would like to focus on an additional two which are at the heart of his contribution.
The first pope of the social media age, Francis was able to use an offhand remark (rather than, say, an encyclical or the proceedings of the synod) to galvanize international media attention: prompting a conversation about Catholic attitudes toward LGBTQ individuals while sidestepping the bureaucratic and doctrinal challenges inherent in any actual dogmatic reform (challenges that, as we will see, would become more apparent later in his papacy).
First, because the move that's being pressed by liberals around divorce, remarriage and the sacraments has been very deliberately couched in precisely the language that was used to justify many of the changes listed above: The distinction between the pastoral and the doctrinal that supposedly defined the reforms of Vatican II, the idea that the way the church practices the faith can change so long as the official teaching doesn't.
That difference has been defended on roughly the grounds I noted above: That the church's understanding of marriage is so close to the heart of Catholic moral and sacramental theology, and the pastoral and doctrinal so closely intertwined therein, that liberalization on this point would lead to a great unraveling (and a severing of the church from its own past) in a way that other alterations (past and potential) would not.

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