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
Then there came a struggle between the representatives of different tendencies: strict logical adhesion to theory versus criticism, opportunism versus impossibilism, trade unionism after the English manner versus doctrinal Marxism as a philosophy of history, reformism versus syndicalism. Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
There were also doctrinal disputes, and arguments over the nature of papal authority.
It called for a new crackdown on doctrinal dissent, and recommended a papal investigation of American seminaries, the subtext of which was to blame gays.
This could be seen as an attempt to influence the doctrinal development of the common law.
What do I mean by "frankly doctrinal"? Christianity Today
But doctrinal changes were to become irresistible. THE FOUR NATIONS: A History of the United Kingdom
Abraham may be the original patriarch, but if anybody should be called the doctrinal founder of Judaism and its derivative religions, it is Moses. The God Delusion
It is whether you can get a great law teaching job these days professing no interest whatsoever in doctrinal elaboration, doctrinal reform, doctrinal justification or doctrinal history. Balkinization
As a practical matter, the church often skirts this "marriage is forever" tenet using the instrument of annulment -- sort of a way, doctrinally, to "vaporize" an inconvenient prior marriage. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
United prayer meetings, ecumenical fellowship and common worship events blur doctrinal differences for the sake of their particular cause.
Early practitioners of preaching distinguished between verba - the words that directly defined doctrinal points - and exempla, which illustrated them.
Anglicanism was a political expedient rather than a doctrinal necessity, which explains why its theological content has always been light. Times, Sunday Times
Not a theologian, he was unconcerned by doctrinal minutiae; far from encouraging popery his one known theological work was a stout defence of the church against Catholicism.
Yes, he's doctrinally more fluid than his predecessors, but he's recognizably of the same type.
Barr suggests not only that biblical theology is not theology in the doctrinal sense, but that a serious unification of both Testaments can be accomplished only with doctrinal, not biblical theology.
It seems that doctrinal conservatism, combined with modern techniques in evangelism, is the key to success here.
In modern parlance, a 'Donatist' is someone who refuses to empty the Sacraments of doctrinal content. Stand Firm
The Congregational establishment had given birth to a radical, antidoctrinal movement, and it seemed locked in a fruitless war of attrition.
Something caught my attention in the final message of the Conference of Aparecida—please note that I am not referring to the magnificent Final Document of the Conference, but to the Final Message, a sort of draft of the Final Document written by the Ad Hoc Commission—In this Final Message, different from the later, final document, the Father ends up relegated to an implicit role in the whole opening part, the doctrinal-kerygmatic speaking of Jesus (10 times,) or Lord Jesus (1 time,) or Jesus Christ (4 times.) Liberalism: Sin, Iniquity, Abomination
During a visit today to Toronto, the general superior explained that the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, established precisely to oversee the process of healing the society's separation from the Church, will remain a distinct entity within the Church's dicastery for doctrinal matters. Fellay: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei Imminent
It seems that doctrinal conservatism, combined with modern techniques in evangelism, is the key to success here. April 17, 2005
Scholars describe the Leverett curriculum as ‘catholick,’ meaning that the tutors adopted a latitudinarian stance on many doctrinal issues.
I hear that there is a crisis of biblical and doctrinal authority in the churches.
A dialogue which is comes under the responsibility of the supreme doctrinal dicastery since Lefebvre's followers argue that with the Second Vatican Council the Catholic doctrine has been changed and ask that this be clarified in view of a formal return of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X to the Catholic Church. Rumour Watch: Motu Proprio on the Reorganisation of Ecclesia Dei
There are not several types of sermons, for example, expository, historical, doctrinal, moral, apologetic, and topical.
The doctrinal studies are concerned with establishing laws by proving them, some on the basis of others.
I have suggested that they were limited in their appeal because the changes they opposed were confined to doctrinal issues.
But then he grew old and ill, and as he declined his doctrinal conservatism seemed to come more and more to the forefront.
Indeed traditionalist, Tridentine Roman Catholics deplore the theological modernism into which their church has sunk through the espousal of the theory of doctrinal development.
Nevertheless, Protestant ministers were originally expected to catechize Bible readers, involving doctrinal claims that structured how the Bible would be put together.
The other is marriage contract in concept, as a kind of use in analogy, just for doctrinal analysis while the marriage parties in reality do not conclude contract.
In chapter 2, if and when we have doctrinal apostasy, we must know the truth and proclaim it in meekness and in power.
As a doctrinal matter, I don't find the Court's attempt to constitutionalize his harm principle (which holds that private behavior cannot be regulated absent harm to others) especially convincing.
The ‘faith’ is not simply a set of doctrinal propositions, creedal affirmations, and moral codes.
He described Divine Beauty as ‘neither philosophy nor theology, neither spiritual nor doctrinal, neither critical nor exhortative but rather a delighted dance of all these elements’.
His doctrinal position is further and usefully clarified in fifteen sermons, which presumably belong to his years as abbot and bishop.
[T] he doctrinal battle ... [in Kaur] really is rooted in empty, incoherent blather The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
In Islam and some other religions, fundamentalism refers to doctrinal conservatism. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
My first thought on hearing this summary of Buddhism was how very much it reminded me of Rudolf Bultmann's definition of faith in keeping with the existentialist Christian tradition as depending on nothing but God, as letting go of all so-called certainties, including doctrinal and religious ones, which turn out to be idols when we cling to them. Archive 2007-09-01
How, for example, to reconcile Aquinas' doctrinal disproof of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the acceptance and dogmatical promulgation of the same? Light from the East: The Russian Catholic Parish in Lyons, France
He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
quibbling over doctrinal minutiae
These purely doctrinal responses were, however, of lesser importance than one practical implication of Luxemburgism.
At that time, Mao Zedong (already in ideological conflict with the Soviet Union) insisted to Soviet Communist Party chief Nikita Khruschchev, who was inclined towards "polycentrism" within the "world communist movement", that the Soviet Union should remain officially at its doctrinal head: leading the latter acerbically to retort, Asia Times Online
He is never mentioned in the first part, where Jesus Christ is presented, but later after passing over the doctrinal-kerygmatic moment, in the parenthetical context of the fourth and fifth sections. Liberalism: Sin, Iniquity, Abomination
Here, then, plainly and incontrovertibly, if we acceded to the request for coöperation with the Commission as now constituted, was our whole system of doctrinal teaching to be made the subject of visitatorial examination by Protestant Commissioners, some of whom were laymen, some clergymen; and from their impressions would be derived their report.
MUNICH -- When Pope Benedict XVI was archbishop of Munich and Freising, he was broadly described as a theologian more concerned with doctrinal debates than personnel matters. Post-gazette.com - News
A strong argument may also be made that the pandectist jurisprudence of Continental Europe presents an example of the use of doctrinal expositions as primary sources of law.
[T] he doctrinal battle ... [in Kaur] really is rooted in empty, incoherent blather that can never be a satisfying basis for a doctrine. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
It is simply not possible to question the doctrinal orthodoxy of the men I profiled in that book.
His doctrinal position is further and usefully clarified in fifteen sermons, which presumably belong to his years as abbot and bishop.
The reason something can be said to be right or wrong is because the Bible has laid out before us a moral and doctrinal standard that is clear.
(Though I think this is a descriptive/nominative use, there is arguably a doctrinal reason to stick with descriptiveness: some of LEYE’s marks are incontestable and nominative fair use is not a specifically listed defense to incontestability; however, courts have used nominative fair use to find no confusion as a matter of law, so that’s not a huge barrier to applying the doctrine to incontestable marks.) Archive 2009-08-01
What it does entail, however, is the methodological point that doctrinal deviation from tradition should not originate from some unanalyzed conviction about what ‘modem people’ can or can no longer believe in.
He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.
But doctrinal changes were to become irresistible. THE FOUR NATIONS: A History of the United Kingdom
I was simply fighting against what I perceived as biblical, doctrinal, and ascetic fundamentalism.
The Pope's reform agenda is not limited to doctrinal disputes. Times, Sunday Times
The doctrinally based form comes from learning and accepting the teachings on a soul (bdag, Skt. atman) of one of the non-Buddhist Indian tenet systems. A Deluded Outlook toward a Transitory Network
The nation desperately needs sound doctrinal teaching, grounded solely on the Bible, whether through sermons, books, tracts or radio programmes.
Dupanloup), and other persons who reproached him with carrying doctrinal intransigentism too far and with defending religion with too great violence, though all he asked for the Church was mere liberty. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
The expectation is that key personnel already are aware of the relevant doctrinal and planning concepts.
The popularity of the scripture in east Asia is no doubt due to its doctrinal simplicity; it makes only the two primary points listed above, and eschews discussions of abstruse philosophical matters.
JUDAISM so largely supplied the circumstantial and doctrinal germs out of which dogmatic Christianity grew, that we cannot thoroughly understand the Christian belief in a final day of judgment, unless we first notice the historic and literary derivation of that belief from Judaism, and then trace its development in the new conditions through which it passed. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
We all hold, in full doctrinal orthodoxy, that the Lord's sufferings, both of soul and body, were no "docetic" semblance but a deep and infinitely pathetic reality. Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews
His doctrinal position is further and usefully clarified in fifteen sermons, which presumably belong to his years as abbot and bishop.
Don't worry about all the doctrinal injunctions in the catechism, they'd tell us.
It can be safely said that within Protestantism doctrinal differences are virtually irrelevant for the members of the major denominations. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
In terms of spiritual doctrine and institutional practice, the theistic Church, which still refuses to ordain women and attributes blame for the fall of humankind to the actions of Eve, was sharply distinct from the doctrinally omnivorous Farmies, who invested midwives with hierophantic authority and attributed to neither sex responsibility for the decline of humankind into ignorance of Spirit. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
When theologizing, the biblical scholar must respond to the demands of critical methodology, the doctrinal teachings of the Christian church, and the inherent Jewish identity of the text.
He was distinctly nervous of orthodoxies and almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems.
A pluralist is someone who holds that no specific doctrinal perspective is superior to the others.
Benedict XVI explains that the revocation of the excommunication is personal, concerns the four bishops, and does not imply the canonical recognition of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X which can take place only after a doctrinal realignment of the Fraternity, including the acceptance of Vatican II and the Magisterium of the post-conciliar Popes. Advance Report on the Papal Letter about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications
What it does entail, however, is the methodological point that doctrinal deviation from tradition should not originate from some unanalyzed conviction about what ‘modem people’ can or can no longer believe in.
We "creedless" UUs would instinctively say no, that strict doctrinal rules are inappropriate, but our standards are not the same as the Anglican Communion's. Philocrites: Anglicans turn UK Unitarians out of cathedral.
The recondite topic of usury allowed Noonan to consider the problem of doctrinal development at greater length.
He argues that "doctrinal indefiniteness can be a reasonable expression of epistemic modesty, and that even doctrinal entanglement can be justified when it is the only way of preserving, in the sociocultural environment available, a reflectively stable orientation. Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate?
Her views on doctrinal matters seem to have been idiosyncratic to say the least. The Times Literary Supplement
Since propinquity is a common source of tensions, most particular attention was paid to avoiding intercommunion with other Lutherans who professed a seductive approximation of doctrinal agreement.
He was certainly no British doctrinal conservative, looking to God, natural law, loyalty and duty.
However, his own bias in favour of doctrinal studies hindered acceptance of his theories, and he died at too young an age to have had much impact.
The ecclesial, communional, hierarchical and doctrinal dimension is absolutely indispensable for any authentic mission, and this alone guarantees its spiritual effectiveness", he said. The Pope on the Correct Reading of the Council and Avoiding Discontinuity
No man is called by God to preach the gospel who does not know the gospel, both doctrinally and experimentally.
This is not simply a doctrinal dispute over what name God is to be called, it is a dispute of who God actually is.
He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.
Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news: How "unitarianism" is a doctrinal leftover that Unitarian Universalists cling to somewhat irrationally. Philocrites: Philocrites is signing off.
This doctrinal move conveniently advanced Europe's acquisition of sovereignty over African territory.
Various ecumenical councils were convened where the bishops from different regions met and discussed liturgical and doctrinal matters.
Thus the discourse of American studies had been inflected from the beginning by the doctrinal ‘doubleness’ of the adversary culture.
This is a very important doctrinal change which concerns divorce and remarriage.
But governments these days face anomie, impatience, generalised discontent, which are less amenable than they once were to the recompense of doctrinal zeal, for the simple reason that it does not exist.
The Church will have to regain its doctrinal health once again before anything else.
The style is discursive, not doctrinal; persuasive, not proclamatory.
The Muslim ummah (transnational community of believers) from the Maghreb to Malacca is marked by ethnic, economic, doctrinal, cultural, and political differences.
I say nothing about the ungracefulness of the translation but I much fear it will by many be taken as an indication of doctrinal bias.
Structurally, our doctrinal foundation and strategy are aligned and congruent.
I would like to now look at some of what we have termed the doctrinal recommendations proposed by the Panel. Reforming the United Nations and Building Cooperation Towards Peace and Security
And like many others, it was sparked not by doctrinal zeal, but sulky teenage rebellion. Times, Sunday Times
The teaching is not straightforward, and the doctrinal differences are often profound. Times, Sunday Times
The scholars' doctrinal underpinnings can be bracketed and later assessed when critical methods of examining biblical texts are shared across denominational and inter-religious lines.
As a general rule, the teaching of preaching will probably be of greater importance in seminaries where the mission emphasis is evangelical or doctrinal in nature.
Don't worry about all the doctrinal injunctions in the catechism, they'd tell us.
It seems to me that all "mundane" economists to use Peter Klein's felicitous term interested in how the real economy works ask and try to answer the very same questions, but depending on their doctrinal orientation, their answers are different. On Beating Dead Horses - The Austrian Economists
Doctrinal issues were never ventilated, and the dispute was confined to questions of legal rights and political jurisdiction.
And like many others, it was sparked not by doctrinal zeal, but sulky teenage rebellion. Times, Sunday Times
The most material things contained in the gospels, that is, the doctrinal parts, were his own words still from time to time, upon all occasions. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
Early on in American Unitarian history (probably with Theodore Parker) the idea emerged that the church oppressed its own members (or, more accurately, its ministers) when it expected some degree of doctrinal conformity within the church, even though no political coercion was involved. Philocrites: September 2003 Archives
We hope we can be agreeable and not ever become disagreeable in talking about doctrinal matters.
You have to admit that The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is not a title calculated to attract a mass readership; and it is still rather difficult to explain just why a book with such a title is a classic of doctrinal reflection, not just a dissertation on how to run churches. The Richard Hooker Lecture: Richard Hooker (c1554-1600): The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Revisited The Temple Church, London
He enjoyed these very much, and eventually he began to appreciate the more doctrinal portions of the Bible as well.
Second, doctrinal instruction need not oppose expository preaching, for it can rest on solid interpretation and can supplement such preaching.
The devil, as an unclean spirit, is working both in doctrinal errors (Rev.xvi. 13), and in practical debauchery (2 Pet.ii. 10); and in both these, ministers have a charge against him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
The 8th Circuit's decision on the Federal Partial Birth Abortion statute, on which the Supreme Court has accepted certiorari, is a far better vehicle for undermining the doctrinal foundations of Roe and Casey through a series of doctrinal distinctions. Balkinization
These range from the abstrusely technical to his Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, which may be the most widely used introduction to Mahayana Buddhist thought in the English-speaking world.
From how he is described, one can guess that if Roberts were a professor today, he would likely be a doctrinally-oriented scholar and probably hornbook writer.
We either have the formal teaching of doctrinal error, or else we have the fracture of the Church into the heretical "conciliar" Church with its Magisterium the one to which the Pope and his bishops and almost all Catholic faithful belong, and the "real" Church, a small remnant institutionally separate from the Catholic Church's Magisterium, with its own Magisterium. Modern world: a desert of God
The bureaucrats or the doctrinal mavericks, the politicians or the pure in heart? Times, Sunday Times
Doctrinal differences were vigorously debated among religious leaders.
In any case, in its bilious doctrinal carping, the editorial was quite exemplary, a sinister, jargon-ridden spasm of Stalinesque nastiness.
There is a difference between teachings that a Catholic must believe, called doctrinal, and those issues which are up for debate, called prudential. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
A doctrinal synthesis may be a negative guide, eliminating erroneous interpretation, but only in a very extenuated sense would it be a positive aid to interpretation.
By the mid-fourteenth century, the theologians of Paris were generally regarded as the arbiters of doctrinal authority, and they were consulted as such by popes and bishops alike.
The errors needed correcting, and besides, this was no time for doctrinal disputes!
The doctrinal orthodoxy of the day was McCarthyism in its final, decaying phase.
The best strategists have at their fingertips a wide assortment of doctrinal tools.
His seeming indifference to attempts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, his support for a constitutional amendment to deny birthright citizenship to children of illegal aliens, and his opposition to the Nafta and Cafta free trade agreements in the name of doctrinal purity are at odds with most libertarians. Why Ron Paul Matters
The conclusion is unwarranted, and involves overplaying the disagreements and their importance while ignoring the basic unity of canonical and doctrinal decisions.
Keller promotes a robust Reformed Christianity that has a vision that encompasses not only doctrinal statements, but also our piety, evangelistic outreach, and missions of mercy.
It was a clear case of contract law and of the doctrinal concerns and legal rights of the church's university.
American doctrinal thought exhibited a certain retrograde character during the years before the Civil War.
I therefore took occasion to observe that the world in general began to be blamably indifferent as to doctrinal matters, and followed human speculations too much. The Vicar of Wakefield
An ‘inclusive’ English translation of the catechism of the Catholic Church was delayed for months while the Vatican corrected the doctrinal problems raised by the new version.
They considered a private relationship with God more important than doctrinal precision or correct forms of worship.
These theologians were, on the one hand, opposed to all unnecessary logomachies _i. e._, controversies involving no doctrinal differences, and, at the same time, were most careful not to fall into any extreme position themselves. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
We place these doctrinal discussions under the protection of Our Lady of All Trust, with the assurance that she will obtain for us the grace of faithfully delivering that which we received, "tradidi quod et accepi" I Cor. Archive 2009-03-01
New doctrinal and linguistic orthodoxies were put in place to institutionalize the gains made by revisionists in the name of pluralism and inclusivity.
After exploring our doctrinal position and what kinds of building uses we sought. Christianity Today
Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news: In which I suggest that anti-Trinitarianism "unitarianism" is a kind of doctrinal leftover in Unitarian Universalism that we cling to somewhat irrationally; with 36 comments. Philocrites: January 2008 Archives
There are virtually no theological or doctrinal books in the various indigenous languages.
Fourth, the idea of patristic authority (auctoritas patrum or auctoritas sanctorum) juxtaposed the notion of authorization (the inspiration of the Fathers by Holy Scripture), the notion of persuasion apart from or prior to rational demonstration, the notion of personal expertise in the juristic formulation of a canonical faith, and the anthropological reverence for the elders (auctoritas maiorum as the respect due the fathers of a Christian doctrinal tradition). AUTHORITY
Doctrinal differences were vigorously debated among religious leaders.
The first group can include doctrinal provisions that are common to states in a particular region.
in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used
Moreover, reality refused to conform to the doctrinal expectation that the withdrawal of the state would pave the way for the market and private sector to dynamize agriculture. Walden Bello: Destroying African Agriculture
This remark might indicate that Bacon finds the same doctrinal problem with the “esse habitudinis” that he finds with the “esse habituale” (i.e., it introduces a foil for some kind of fictive being), but we cannot be certain of this, since he never returned to this topic in the Compendium. Richard the Sophister
This is pure prudentialism – what makes the cases come out different is not the force of doctrinal logic but a set of political calculations about how Congress and the public will accept the decision. Balkinization
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.
Words, phrases, sentences, and doctrinal teachings were subjected to close analysis and correct definitions and interpretations were recorded.
It was hence possible to con - ceive a comprehensive doctrinal learning such that, by its means, man reasons and discusses in the three arts called discursive (sermocinales), but at the same time endeavors to learn about things through the other four arts called real (reales). WORK
One has certitude derived from a conviction that she is doctrinally correct.
This is a real doctrinal issue that's being fought right now in the Pentagon.

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