Sentence examples for a specific doctrine from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cheney did not spell out a specific doctrine that he and Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican presidential nominee, would follow if they won the election.

Within Eastern Orthodox theology a specific doctrine of the heavenly Wisdom, Sophianism, may be found alongside the doctrine of the mother of God.

Deep ecology ceased to be a specific doctrine, but instead became a "platform", of eight simple points, on which Næss hoped all deep green thinkers could agree.

Each meeting has given Sudhana a specific doctrine, knowledge and wisdom.

We have to prove ourselves worthy in external terms by being acceptable to somebody else and of value within a specific doctrine or belief system.

They represent, as Richter puts it, "a leave-taking from any specific doctrine of salvation".

Voltaire's philosophical legacy ultimately resides as much in how he practiced philosophy, and in the ends toward which he directed his philosophical activity, as in any specific doctrine or original idea.

If the term fascist is thrown around as an epithet, it is partly because fascism, unlike communism, did not develop a highly specific doctrine.

The soul's longing for release from this world and liberation, or obliteration, in the divine, are themes which found powerful expression in their liturgies, and which bond them to at least one important facet of neoplatonism and to each other more truly than any specific doctrines that they may hold concerning the origin of matter or the nature of prophetic inspiration.

The American logician Charles S. Peirce, another pioneering pragmatist, may have been the first to use the word to designate a specific philosophical doctrine.

Rebutting the popular misconception that the critic "writes because he is possessed by a passion to advance enlightenment, to put down error and wrong, to disseminate some specific doctrine" – in short, to make arguments – he proposed a much more basic impulse.