NOUN
- the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group
How To Use religious doctrine In A Sentence
- For example, when the astronomer Copernicus proposed a heliocentric view of the world, it was rejected because it did not conform to established religious doctrine.
- Taiping Scriptures takes the theory on Yin and Yang as the philosophic base of Taoism, and expounds the theology and religious doctrine with it, implying lots of brilliant thoughts on woman rights.
- As the elite, Akhund is not only the inheritor and disseminator of Islam, but also the elucidator and defender of Sharia and Islam religious doctrine.
- Most religious doctrine advances intellectually challenging accounts of history. Times, Sunday Times
- The Justice Department, an arm of the federal government, is now enforcing religious doctrine.
- Taiping Scriptures takes the theory on Yin and Yang as the philosophic base of Taoism, and expounds the theology and religious doctrine with it, implying lots of brilliant thoughts on woman rights.
- It implies that rational inquiry and religious doctrine cannot consist with one another.
- Here, they drew on Hegel's account of religious doctrines and institutions as symbolic objectifications of that spirit.
- Jefferson opposed the government's "intermeddling" in religious doctrine, discipline, and practices. K. Hollyn Hollman: Does the National Day of Prayer Violate Church-State Separation?
- We adopt a double standard: we subject religious doctrines to rigorous scrutiny that we would not dream of imposing on the deliverances of science and common sense.