Communities are now discarding the commonly accepted doctrine of what constitutes an acceptable toilet – a cement slab-covered pit latrine with brick walls – and instead are endorsing more flexible definitions of latrines.
I was due to speak at Feminism in London this month, but have now agreed not to, apparently because my views veer too far from accepted doctrine.
By the time the Gospels were circulated, it was both common parlance and accepted doctrine.
Only, accept doctrine clearly based on Biblical teaching not ones opinions or imaginings.
He acknowledged his debt to Hippocrates and followed the Hippocratic method, accepting the doctrine of the humours.
For the large aspiring middle group of developing nations -- countries like Tunisia, Nigeria and Vietnam -- the advantage of accepting the doctrine and rules of a level playing field is access to world markets.
For example, he is not, as one would expect, Averroistic in accepting the doctrine of a single soul and indeed doubts whether it is truly Averroës's teaching.
He joins the Temple of Robotology, accepting the doctrine of eternal damnation in Robot Hell should he sin.
Instead of accepting the doctrine that a global war against terrorists justifies almost any expansion of information-gathering, he said the entire U.S. intelligence enterprise should be subject to more public scrutiny and more stringent cost-benefit tests.
"This revolutionary view," the Prestons write, "was at direct variance with accepted religious doctrine".
