doctrinal

[ US /ˈdɑktɹənəɫ/ ]
[ UK /dɒktɹˈa‍ɪnə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine
    quibbling over doctrinal minutiae
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How To Use doctrinal In A Sentence

  • He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
  • The task of doctrinal definition continued, however, and theological debate on Christological and other matters is clearly of great interest and concern among Christians in the twentieth century.
  • Since worship is the primary, often exclusive means of Christian catechesis, what will be the effect of language in which the doctrinally ill-equipped worshiper must impute the Nicene faith to the Eucharistic prayer?
  • It is that which today we call doctrinal and institutional ecumenism. Archive 2008-03-16
  • ‘It is not for a secular newspaper to comment on the doctrinal disputes of any religious faith’.
  • A small Westernized intelligentzia with many internal feuds and doctrinal disputes struggled, not very effectively, in the larger towns to turn this merely insurgent Communism into modern and constructive paths after the Moscow pattern. The Shape of Things to Come
  • The background to these arguments is not only the doctrinal disputes over the use of icons. The Times Literary Supplement
  • In other words, it is a biblical and doctrinal criterion, not an ecclesiastical or historical one.
  • Now, I understand not hereby those doctrinal reproofs when, in the dispensation of that word of grace and truth which is "profitable for correction and reproof," 2 Tim.iii. 16, they speak, and exhort, and "rebuke" the sins of men "with all authority," Tit.ii. 15; but the occasional application of the word unto individual persons, upon their unanswerableness in any thing unto the truth wherein they have been instructed. The Sermons of John Owen
  • His gift was intuitive, not intellectual, so he offered no match for the doctrinal firepower of Antonin Scalia, the court's archest conservative. Why The Court Needs A Liberal
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