Sentence examples for doctrinal adherence from inspiring English sources

But having a working government has become less important to conservatives than rigid doctrinal adherence.

When it comes to absolute doctrinal adherence, she said, "I don't know that there would be a church in this country that I would be involved in.

His actions speak of mercy, inclusion, and welcome, moving the Church away from its imbalanced focus on doctrinal adherence towards pastoral concern.

The approach stands in sharp contrast to his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who spent 25 years as the church's chief doctrinal enforcer before becoming pope, known for an unbending adherence to doctrinal purity.

It also called for strict adherence to an orthodox Anglican theology based on the traditional doctrinal statement of Anglicanism, the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion of 1571, stipulating that they be "taken in their literal and grammatical sense".

Clearly Hobsbawm owed much of this to his lifelong adherence to Marxism, which in his hands was a subtle and flexible tool for organising and interpreting historical material, a whole intellectual world removed from the rigid doctrinal orthodoxies of the Soviet Academy and its mindless satellites in the other countries of the Warsaw pact.

Syncretism is common, and doctrinal rigidity rare.

It was a perfectly doctrinal speech.

Breton, however, demanded firm doctrinal allegiance.

Its withholding of an encore felt doctrinal.

But doctrinal changes are helping too.