The phrase "a certain doctrine" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific belief or principle without naming it directly, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The researchers examined the implications of a certain doctrine that has influenced modern philosophy."
Alternatives: "a particular doctrine" or "a specific doctrine".
In doing so, however, they presuppose that the fact that a certain doctrine has explanatory power provides a reason to accept it.
This, however, is not something we can learn by coming to master a certain doctrine, method, or theory.
As Kimura noted (1983, p. 22), "…if a certain doctrine is constantly being spoken of favorably by the majority, endorsed by top authorities in their books and taught in classes, then a belief is gradually built up in one's mind, eventually becoming the guiding principle and the basis of value judgment.
And because St . Paulargued that faith is more important than "works" (what you do good in the world), they think that believing a certain doctrine is the only thing that matters in terms of whether you make it into heaven or not.
I bristle as much as anyone in emergent Christianity when someone tries to pin me down with a certain Christian doctrine like my position on the trinity or my doctrine of salvation.
Civil libertarians have watched the moves with wariness, saying that the key question is whether schools are trying to impose a certain religious doctrine in a public setting.
One begins with a certain theory, doctrine or collection of beliefs which is taken to be more or less correct, but is taken to be in certain regards vague, imprecise, disunified, overly complex or in some other way confused or puzzling.
Dietrich's De ente et essentia which bears the same title as Thomas Aquinas' opuscule is indeed a work that gives much evidence of having been prepared as a kind of rebuttal to certain doctrines of Aquinas.
At first a defender of Islam against Christian missionaries, he then later adopted certain doctrines of the Indian Muslim modernist Sayyid Ahmad Khan namely, that Jesus died a natural death and was not assumed into heaven as the Islamic orthodoxy believed and that jihad "by the sword" had been abrogated and replaced with jihad "of the pen".
One sign that is happening would be for the law to include a right for consumers to sue firms that violate certain doctrines established by the new agency.
On Boyer's account, people do not accept implausible religious doctrines because they have relaxed their standards of rationality; they relax their standards of rationality because certain doctrines fit their "inference machinery" in such a way as to seem credible.
