Sentence examples for changes in doctrine from inspiring English sources
If implemented speedily, they could help lay the groundwork for the changes in doctrine that the international forces in Afghanistan badly need.
In return for recognizing the pope as head of the Christian church and accepting a few minor changes in doctrine, Romanian clerics were promised a political and economic status equal to that of Roman Catholic priests.
The fact that his "Joy of the Gospel" contains few doctrinal changes does not mean, according to Tornielli, they may not be coming: "Given the things he has said about decentralization, it would be against that spirit of collegiality for him to announce major changes in doctrine all by himself.
Later in antiquity, when different phases in the history of the Academy corresponding to changes in doctrine and philosophical approach were distinguished, some people spoke of a fourth Academy of Philo and a fifth of Antiochus (Sextus Empiricus [S.E.], Outlines, i.e., Pyrrhoneae hypotyposes [PH] 1.220).
Significant changes in doctrine and administration were regularly introduced during Rutherford's twenty-five yeass as president, including the 1920 announcement that the Jewish patriarchs (such as Abraham and Isaac) would be resurrected in 1925, marking the beginning of Christ's thousand-year Kingdom.
To be clear, the pope's remarks do not signal a change in doctrine.
It is clear that any open change in doctrine would provoke a ferocious row and possibly a formal schism.
He famously said, of gay Catholics, "Who am I to judge?" but did not endorse any change in doctrine.
The apparent gamble of Francis's papacy is to bring about a change in the Church's attitude and behavior without (in all likelihood) a substantial change in doctrine.
"I hope the church will have a change in doctrine, that the membership will have a change of heart," said Diane Stewart, 58, a Mormon who teaches Sunday school in Salt Lake City.
But Mr. Hawkins said there had been "no shift or change in doctrine" on the church's stance on gay relationships or the role of openly gay Mormons in their congregations.
