"Baptism for the Dead is one of the most appealing doctrines there is," Stephen Covey told me.
According to Philip Jenkins of Pennsylvania State University, poor citizens of impoverished countries often find the doctrine appealing because of their economic powerlessness and the doctrine's emphasis on miracles.
(It should be noted that this difficulty can't be evaded by appealing to the doctrine of middle knowledge.
Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann have responded to the Euthyphro dilemma by appealing to the doctrine of divine simplicity, a concept associated with Aquinas and Aristotle which suggests that the substance and attributes of God are identical.
Defenders of state neutrality often defend the doctrine by appealing to the ideal of public reason.
There are competing philosophical theories of truth, and public reason is meant to abstain from appealing to particular philosophical doctrines.
When engaged in discourse in this arena, officials are to refrain from appealing to religious or other comprehensive doctrines over which reasonable persons are assumed to disagree, and instead make arguments that appeal to our shared political values.
His lowish caste, as an "Other Backward Class", played well, especially in caste-obsessed UP.Hindutva, a doctrine of Hindu supremacy, also counted, appealing to voters proud of their heritage and often antagonistic to Muslims.
For Hume and Burke this is a customary framework; for religious thinkers such as Cardinal Newman it is fideistic, appealing to the extra-rational authority of religious doctrine.
A beautiful Christian girl makes veiling all the rage, while the village molla halts the stoning of an adulteress by appealing not merely to the sharia but to the doctrines of Jesus, son of Mary.
