Sentence examples for common doctrine from inspiring English sources

Welby is proposing that, in the face of intractable differences, the communion reshapes itself as a loose confederation of churches rather than adherents to a common doctrine.

"Rooseveltism, Hitlerism, Stalinism are all only local variants of the common doctrine that man has no natural rights but only such as are created for him by the state," wrote libertarian scholar Albert Jay Nock in 1937.

A compromise to the break-up of the communion has been mooted, which could see the common doctrine of Anglicanism replaced by a looser confederation of national churches linked to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Others confess through their mass rapes, choreographed murders and rational self-justifications a primary fealty to nihilism: that characteristically modern-day and insidiously common doctrine that makes it impossible for modern-day Raskolnikovs to deny themselves anything, and possible to justify anything.

It was a response to a statement from New Mexico's then attorney general, Gary King, that the public can wade and fish in streams running through private property, as long as they remain in the stream, which is in line with common doctrine in many states.

Use fictionalism is arguably by far the more common doctrine.

This denial of common doctrines cannot be sustained the evidence is against it.

The first 14 articles stated the usually accepted common doctrines of the German and Swiss South German Reformations, which had not been discussed at the colloquy.

It is hard to argue with his ultimate observation about Europe today: "When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture" (Europe's) "meets a culture that is anchored, confident, and strengthened by common doctrines" (Islam's), "it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter".

Moreover, Europe is no match for Islamic self-confidence: "When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter".Mr Caldwell's unremitting pessimism about Europe raises all sorts of questions, both large and small.

Their power is enhanced by the common law doctrine that links them in a chain of influence and causation the doctrine of precedent.