For differing reasons, belief in Mary's immaculate conception in the Catholic doctrinal form is not part of the official doctrines of the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant churches.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

Nonetheless, the Soviets maintained their doctrinal belief in the effectiveness of airborne forces, as part of their concept of " deep battle ", throughout the war.

In Trevor-Roper's view, the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries were part of the reaction against growing doctrinal pluralism, and were ultimately traced back to the conflict between the rational worldview of such thinkers as Desiderius Erasmus and other humanists and the spiritual values of the Reformation.

In spite of his doctrinal writings — which at the time made no little noise, so that his Compendium of Dogmatic ( 1760 ) was confiscated in Sweden, and the Knighthood of the North Star was afterwards given him in reparation — it was the natural side of the Bible that really attracted him, and no man did more to introduce the method of studying Hebrew antiquity as an integral part of ancient Eastern life.

In 1658 he took a leading part in the conference of Independents which drew up the Savoy Declaration ( the doctrinal standard of Congregationalism which was based upon the Westminster Confession of Faith ).

As such, diverse groups such as Adventists, Anabaptists, Baptists, Charismatics, Congregationalists, Evangelicals, Holiness churches, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Reformed, and Unitarians ( depending on one's classification scheme ) are all a part of the same family, and with further doctrinal variations within each group.

In a letter dated January 25, 2007, the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William Levada, following continued requests for clarifications on the writings and activities of Rydén, wrote to the Catholic hierarchy around the world stating that " the Notification of 1995 remains valid as a doctrinal judgment " of the writings, which should be seen as her own personal meditations and that Catholics should not take part in prayer groups established by Rydén.

According to the MOC, the Metropolia of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church ( SOC ), headed by Metropolitan Amfilohije Radović, has existed for only around eight decades, " or to be more precise, it has been there since 1920 when it was established as a structural and integral part of the Serbian Patriarchy in doctrinal, legal and organizational sense ".

These and other writings show him to have been not merely a distinguished theologian and philosopher, but also a canonist, jurist, moralist, and conversationalist, who took an active part in the various ecclesiastical, doctrinal, and disciplinary disputes that stirred Paris at that period.

Dr Thomas continued his studies of the Bible and in 1846 travelled to New York where he gave a series of lectures covering thirty doctrinal subjects that later formed part of his book Elpis Israel ( The Hope of Israel ).

Like most evangelical schools and many seminaries, CIU does have doctrinal affirmations and lifestyle standards which all students ( regardless of degree sought ) are expected to affirm as a part of admission.

There are seven doctrinal points which students must assent to as a part of their admission to and candidacy for a degree from CIU.

Thousands of members left congregations of Bible Students associated with the Watch Tower Society throughout the 1920s prompted in part by Rutherford's failed predictions for the year 1925, increasing disillusionment with his on-going doctrinal and organizational changes, and his campaign for centralized control of the movement.

Calvin's development was affirmed at the Synod of Dort and is a part of the doctrinal positions of most Reformed denominations.

Its first version was written in 1853 by a Constitutional Assembly gathered in Santa Fe, and the doctrinal basis was taken in part from the United States Constitution.

Concrete discussion of doctrinal problems, pending clarification of which " the Society has no canonical status in the Church and its ministers cannot legitimately exercise any ministry ", began on 26 October 2009 with a meeting between experts of the two side, led on the part of the Commission by its Secretary, Monsignor Guido Pozzo, who has long been on the staff of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and on the part of the Society by Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta.

The conflict between Arianism and Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal confrontation in the Church after the legalization of Christianity by the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Licinius.

Usually doctrinal conformity is held as a first consideration when a church makes a decision to grant or decline financial contributions to such agencies, which are legally external and separate from the congregations they serve.

The letter consists of two parts: first a doctrinal section, then a second regarding conduct.

Seven canons, four of these doctrinal canons and three disciplinary canons, are attributed to the Council and accepted by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches ; the Roman Catholic Church accepts only the first four .< ref >

During Cranmer's tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury, he was responsible for establishing the first doctrinal and liturgical structures of the reformed Church of England.

The reformers soon disagreed among themselves and divided their movement according to doctrinal differences — first between Luther and Zwingli, later between Luther and John Calvin — consequently resulting in the establishment of different and rival Protestant Churches ( denominations ), such as the Lutheran, the Reformed, the Puritans, and the Presbyterian.

Its first pioneers aimed to promote ‘ doctrinal truth and vital godliness ’.

The Governing Body was then for the first time formally defined, indicating that it provided the religion with direction, guidance and regulation, although all doctrinal and publishing decisions continued to be made by, or were subject to, the approval of the Society's president.

This movement first emerged around 1914 as the result of doctrinal disputes within the nascent Pentecostal movement and claims an estimated 24 million adherents today, or about 1. 1 % of all Christians.

Joseon Buddhism, which had started off under the so-called " five doctrinal and two meditational " schools system of the Goryeo, was first condensed to two schools: Seon and Gyo.

Perhaps the first edition of the Bible in English that qualified as a " study Bible " was the Geneva Bible ; it contained extensive cross references, synopses and doctrinal points.

Before giving his doctrinal exposition of a passage, he first considers its critical state.

This is apparently the first official Pentecostal doctrinal statement adopted by a church in the United States.

The first two divisions occurred because of doctrinal differences, while the third was a friendly separation in response to legal issues pertaining to the church existing in two nations, the United States and Canada.

In the last third of the 19th century, Catalanism was formulating its own doctrinal foundations, not only among the progressive ranks but also in the conservative, and at the same time it started to establish the first political programmes ( e. g. Bases de Manresa, 1892 ), and to generate a wide cultural and association movement of a clearly vindicatory character.

The phrase " agree to disagree " first appeared in print in 1770 when, at the death of George Whitefield, John Wesley wrote a memorial sermon which acknowledged, but downplayed, the two men's doctrinal differences:

In order to accomplish this, the Lombard had to address two tasks: first, that of devising an order for his material, because systematic theology had not yet been constituted as a discipline, and secondly, finding ways to reconcile doctrinal differences among his sources.

As a final guarantee of strict adherence to its theological worldview, the university requires every faculty member, when first hired and again upon application for tenure, to submit their understanding of and complete agreement with each item of the doctrinal and teaching statements to the Talbot School of Theology for evaluation.

Aid to Bible Understanding was the first doctrinal and biblical encyclopedia of Jehovah's Witnesses, published in full in 1971

The CLC maintained that that both the WELS and ELS had misapplied the principles of Christian Fellowship themselves by not breaking away from the Synodical Conference and the LCMS when doctrinal differences had first been perceived.

The EPC was constituted in Launceston, Tasmania on 29 September 1961 with a doctrinal basis identical to the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia, three of whose ministers formed a special Presbytery for the purpose of ordaining the first three ministers.

They include ; setting apart ordinance and service workers by the laying-on of hands ; submitting recommendations to the First Presidency for counselors in the temple presidency and for additional sealers ; performing ordinances ; instructing first time patrons and youth groups on the sacred nature of temple work ; privately answering various doctrinal and personal questions presented by temple patrons and workers ; ensuring that the reverence and harmony required for temple worship is constantly maintained ; and seeking inspiration and divine guidance on every aspect of his duties.

At first Emser was on the side of the reformers, but like his patron he desired a practical reformation of the clergy without any doctrinal breach with the past or the church ; and his liberal sympathies were mainly humanistic, like those of Erasmus and others who parted company with Luther after 1519.

a ) The canons ratifying the doctrinal decisions of the first six ecumenical councils along with the teachings of the Fathers of the Church.