Sentence examples for basic teachings of the from inspiring English sources

An evangelical Web site that plays down the element of persecution of Catholics in favor of the song as a device to instruct youngsters in "basic teachings of the Faith," concedes that there is no definite evidence for that interpretation, but that there is also no definite evidence against it, either.

The basic teachings of the consciousness-oriented Yogācāra school of thought became known in China primarily through the work of Paramārtha; working out of Chien-k'ang in southern China, he is credited with the translation of more than 60 Buddhist texts, most prominently the Mahāyānasaṃgraha, the Viṃśatikā, and the Madhyāntavibhāga-śāstra.

But now Mr. Boehner is coming in for a dose of the same kind of harsh criticism previously leveled at some Democrats — including President Obama — who have been honored by Catholic universities: the accusation that his policies violate basic teachings of the Catholic Church.

Postmodernism in the arts repudiated many of the basic teachings of modernism: the myth of individual genius, for example, and the concept of originality.

Some of the basic teachings of Judaism affirmed by the Sabbath are God's acts of creation, God's role in history, and God's covenant with Israel.

In considering the physiological effects of reiki, one of the basic teachings of healing with reiki is that we are more than our physical bodies.

And at a larger level, the basic teachings of our faiths, from our many traditions, offer useful correctives to the practices that brought us to this sad place.

In a nutshell, the group painted most traditional religious institutions as having strayed far from the basic teachings of their spiritual founders.

He rejected the basic teachings of orthodox Christianity and established a new theory of life, which he called Universism, a term borrowed from a textbook by Jan Jakob Maria de Groot on Chinese philosophy.

The pope's work will not bring Catholics "back to the church" but hopefully it will inspire Christians and non-Christians alike to consider the basic teachings of Jesus around compassion and justice and start acting accordingly.

Borromeo, whose preaching reached a fever pitch during and after the years of the great plague, believed that the Catholic world had fallen into an abyss of sin from which it could redeem itself only by returning to the most basic teachings of Jesus Christ.