Sentence examples for ancient doctrines from inspiring English sources

We cannot change ancient doctrines to adapt to the currents of the day.

It was because in 1965, during the Second Vatican Council, the church officially abandoned its ancient doctrines about the collective guilt of the Jewish people and the eternal divine curse upon Jewish blood.

On the formal side, the religious commitment appears in the frequent Qur'anic quotations in support of ancient doctrines, sometimes through interpretations that are not in line with the theological ones.

The encyclopedia can thus be considered a compendium of foreign sciences, deserving attention even by those who are only interested to ascertain the extent of what the Arabs knew of ancient doctrines at that time.

Two statements -- issued decades apart -- by church councils struggling to respond to the conflict between ancient doctrines and new understandings: each case greeted by some as "too little, too late" and by others as "the end of the world as we know it".

-- Anonymous, New Jersey I refer you to the ancient doctrine -- how does that go again?

For mainstream Jews, some ancient doctrine has been reinterpreted by rabbinical commentary or civil law; for Christians, premises of ancient scripture have been amended.

In the course of making these distinctions, Kripke revived the ancient doctrine of essentialism, according to which objects possess certain properties necessarily without them the objects would not exist at all.

The movies have sometimes done better by satire than the theatre, and it is in the movies that an ancient doctrine having to do with principles of decorum in the use of satire and ridicule has been exploded.

Then there follows a number of divine names, and this enumeration ends: "And the Egyptians, which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their proper ceremonies accustomed to worship me, do call me by my true name, Queen Isis".

Panpsychism seems to be such an ancient doctrine that its origins long precede any records of systematic philosophy.