Protestant Orthodoxy understood Christianity as a system of doctrines, and thus its emphasis was on "right doctrine".
The epistemological character of faith as assent to propositions, basic to the Thomist account, is less pronounced in the conceptions of Pascal and James in that these accept not a system of doctrines but only the thought of God as existing, which itself has conceptual and implicitly propositional content.
Hus had not developed a system of doctrine, nor had he designated his successor.
From the 1140s the Cathari were an organized church with a hierarchy, a liturgy, and a system of doctrine.
During the period of orthodox dominance, some Lutheran theologians argued that Christianity was not so much a system of doctrine as a guide for practical Christian living.
"I'm sure there are those who think I'm an out-and-out heretic, but it seems to me perhaps Zen poses fewer problems because it doesn't claim to be a system of doctrine or belief," he told the Daily Telegraph, which disclosed the regular meetings.
9 While religion may contribute to spirituality, it refers to an outward expression of beliefs as exhibited by behaviors, practices, and rituals which focus on a core system of doctrines, morals, and norms.
His readers are not presented with an elaborate system of doctrines held to be so fully worked out that they are in no need of further exploration or development; instead, what we often receive from Plato is a few key ideas together with a series of suggestions and problems about how those ideas are to be interrogated and deployed.
He proposed the elimination of all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 and the establishment of a system of comprehensive security, a military doctrine that stressed reasonable sufficiency and recognized the complexity of the modern world.
The church's anthropology and soteriology (doctrine of salvation) allowed a system of indulgences to develop.
The Jewish Kabbala, a system of mysticism, theosophy, and miracle working, explicates the doctrine; and logicians of the 16th and 17th centuries also employed it.
