Sentence examples for certain doctrine from inspiring English sources

In doing so, however, they presuppose that the fact that a certain doctrine has explanatory power provides a reason to accept it.

This, however, is not something we can learn by coming to master a certain doctrine, method, or theory.

As Kimura noted (1983, p. 22), "…if a certain doctrine is constantly being spoken of favorably by the majority, endorsed by top authorities in their books and taught in classes, then a belief is gradually built up in one's mind, eventually becoming the guiding principle and the basis of value judgment.

And because St . Paulargued that faith is more important than "works" (what you do good in the world), they think that believing a certain doctrine is the only thing that matters in terms of whether you make it into heaven or not.

One sign that is happening would be for the law to include a right for consumers to sue firms that violate certain doctrines established by the new agency.

The Essenes, who, though they possessed certain doctrines and followed certain practices of their own, were still basically Judaistic, had to assume, like the Old Testament prophets, that their miseries had been willed by God.

Adiaphorism, (from Greek adiaphora, "indifferent"), in Christian theology, the opinion that certain doctrines or practices in morals or religion are matters of indifference because they are neither commanded nor forbidden in the Bible.

The play's most interesting invention is Father O'Hara Bill Raymondd), an amusingly eccentric priest who is Dot's confessor and confidante but whose ambivalence about certain doctrines (he counsels Dot to use birth control) ensures his outsider status.

At first a defender of Islam against Christian missionaries, he then later adopted certain doctrines of the Indian Muslim modernist Sayyid Ahmad Khan namely, that Jesus died a natural death and was not assumed into heaven as the Islamic orthodoxy believed and that jihad "by the sword" had been abrogated and replaced with jihad "of the pen".

Dietrich's De ente et essentia which bears the same title as Thomas Aquinas' opuscule is indeed a work that gives much evidence of having been prepared as a kind of rebuttal to certain doctrines of Aquinas.

Pinborg offered one further bit of evidence for the name Richard Rufus in that there is some reason to think that certain doctrines of Richard Rufus, as criticised by Roger Bacon, are in the Abstractiones.