Sentence examples for doctrinal character from inspiring English sources

More broadly, Bosanquet's emphasis on the moral, and not doctrinal, character of religious belief is, as noted earlier, reflected in recent work in the study of religion.

Evangelical churches and organizations have experienced remarkable growth — owing, in large part, evangelicals say, to the doctrinal latitude and character of moderation established by Graham and the New Evangelicals.

The Christian emotions are given their distinctive character by their doctrinal content: The three cited prayers expressive of the distinctively Christian emotions all trade on propositional beliefs of the kind that the Christian community routinely teaches its members.

The doctrinal differences help explain how LET has maintained a distinctive character in the miasma of Pakistani militancy.

Through these activities they provide religious instruction (doctrinal formation), coaching in spirituality for lay people (spiritual formation), character and moral education (human formation), lessons in sanctifying one's work (professional formation), and know-how in evangelizing one's family and workplace (apostolic formation).

To criticize past popes on basic doctrinal matters is to question the doctrine of papal infallibility.

Section 1 briefly outlines the doctrinal structure of orthodox contract law, with an emphasis on contract's character as chosen obligation.

To summarize, both the doctrinal knowledge that an individual receives about God, and the individual's character, upbringing and so forth, create a personal, internal God-image that the individual perceives as a real person, and with whom the individual interacts.

Like Lutheranism, Anglicanism has striven to retain the Roman Catholic tradition of liturgy and piety; after the middle of the 19th century the Oxford movement argued the essential Catholic character of Anglicanism in the restoration of ancient liturgical usage and doctrinal belief.

The particular character of each religious emotion-type would be impossible apart from this doctrinal content.

Benedict was a doctrinal strongman under John Paul II, a reactionary in all matters of doctrine.