doctrinal synthesis
Merging theological positions
Doctrinal synthesis is the process of combining different religious, philosophical, or ideological teachings into a unified system of belief.
The term appears most often in theological and academic contexts, where scholars attempt to reconcile seemingly contradictory positions or merge traditions that developed separately.
His work represented a doctrinal synthesis of Eastern and Western Christian thought.
The result may be called a synthesis as well: Liberation theology emerged as a doctrinal synthesis of Marxist analysis and Catholic social teaching.
- ecumenismMovement toward religious unity
- big tentInclusive political approach
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- syncretismFusion of different beliefs
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- Neoplatonismemanation, nous, henosis, the Good, world soul