The phrase "a set of doctrines" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a collection of beliefs or principles that are held and taught by a particular group or organization.
Example: "The organization is guided by a set of doctrines that emphasize social justice and equality."
Alternatives: "a collection of beliefs" or "a series of principles."
Though a missionary endeavour, Moma could not preach too narrow a set of doctrines.
The essence of Christianity had become a set of doctrines and laws articulated and controlled by a hierarchy that saw those doctrines as a divine deposit of truth.
The Collin & Colin Report, as it's now dubbed, is based on a set of doctrines that also come to the surface in the United States (as demonstrated by the multiple references in the report).
Conservatives had imposed a set of doctrines upon the denomination in 1910, declaring that the Christian faith required belief in the inerrant inspiration of the Bible, Christ's Virgin Birth, and his Atonement, Resurrection, and miracle-working power.
We call religious people "believers", as though acceptance of a set of doctrines was their principal activity, and before undertaking the religious life many feel obliged to satisfy themselves about the metaphysical claims of the church, which cannot be proven rationally since they lie beyond the reach of empirical sense data.
The Pali language is used by what is now usually called the Theravada ("Way [or Teaching(s)] of the Elders"), but it should be noted that this and related terms, in Pali, refer principally to a monastic lineage or, more rarely, to a set of doctrines differing from those held by other lineages or, loosely, "schools".
In contrast, the churches reveal a lack of faith by insisting on an infallible Bible and a set of unchangeable doctrines tailored to an obsolete worldview.
In the last decade, however, the five-person conservative majority on the Rehnquist court has created a set of federalism doctrines forbidding Congress from regulating what the court calls "noneconomic" activities.
The concept itself is not philosophical at all; it is a religious affirmation that a true Christian must allow Christ's spirit (or "philosophy") to permeate every facet of his life, that Christianity must become a way of life, not just a set of formal doctrines and external ceremonies.
From Hook's perspective, however, these "great commonplaces" did not constitute a set of metaphysical doctrines about the nature of reality which could be demonstrated philosophically or verified scientifically (Hook, The Quest for Being, 1961, Part 3, "The Quest for 'Being'").
Instead it has become a source book for folk tales, or a portrait of "dysfunctional families," or a politicized set of doctrines wrestled over by fundamentalists and secularists alike.
