In the Christian period, images were largely used, not for aesthetic pleasure or admiration, but for ritual and doctrinal purposes.
Along with these doctrinal purposes, Augustine's obsessive engagement with the story of Adam and Eve spoke to something in his life.
Second, we will establish that to the extent Teague did change the law relevant to the retroactivity of new rules of criminal procedure, it departed from the doctrinal purposes underlying retroactivity and made the law hopelessly complex and unworkable.
Furthermore, an ideologically defined global alliance of democracies would face serious difficulties in determining whom to exclude and in striking a reasonable balance between its doctrinal and strategic purposes.
A doctrinal prologue presents the purpose of marriage for men as the assertion of virility rather than the consecration of devotion.
Doctrinal Paradox & International Law.
Doctrinal disputes leave most people cold.
Doctrinal disagreement, heresy charges, minister expelled.
Doctrinal simplification presents one obvious objective.
The capabilities, function, and doctrinal employment of aerospace forces.
In a blatant "Shut up and sit down, sisters" moment, the Vatican's doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, noted, "Occasional public statements by the L.C.W.R. that disagree with or challenge positions taken by the bishops, who are the church's authentic teachers of faith and morals, are not compatible with its purpose".
