'doctrinal claim' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a principle or opinion presented as an official belief, typically one which has been formulated by a religion or other organization. For example, "The church's doctrinal claim that there is only one God was at the heart of its beliefs."
Al-Ghazālī took this view to be in tension with the doctrinal claim that theological orthodoxy requires the possibility of miracles, which consist in the divine interruption of the ordinary course of events in nature.
Buridan's presentation of this alternative is complicated somewhat by the doctrinal claim that the 'nothing' signified by 'A man is a donkey' is not any kind of proposition, but 'that a man is a donkey [hominem esse asinum]', which is the dictum or sentential nominalization of that proposition (expressed in Latin by the accusative + infinitive construction).
Bucer was not so concerned about staking a doctrinal claim per se, but rather he took a standpoint in order to discuss and to win over his opponents.
That language is certainly suggestive of deference, beyond the employment area, to a church's doctrinal claims to special treatment.
Over against this there is in most cultures a concurrent rivalry with other religions, with their contrary doctrinal claims, and beyond that, the challenges of secular wisdom and unbelief.
Otto extends this account to provide a theory of religious language — doctrinal claims are, he thinks, an attempt to convey in rational, conceptually articulate terms the content of a "numinous" experience that is itself conceptually inarticulate.
While there may be many Catholics, for instance, who value the ritual of the Mass without actually believing the doctrine of Transubstantiation, the primacy of the Mass within the Church still hinges on the fact that many Catholics do accept it as a metaphysical truth a fact that can be directly attributed to specific, doctrinal claims that are still put forward by the Church.
All Orthodox credal formulas, liturgical texts, and doctrinal statements affirm the claim that the Eastern Orthodox Church has preserved the original apostolic faith, which was also expressed in the common Christian tradition of the first centuries.
Moreover, much of what is characterized as Islamophobia today arises out of taking seriously the impassioned claims of doctrinal allegiance made by Islamic terrorist groups and their supporters.
Although the primary purpose of meditation is the realization of truth, the doctrinal and experiential truths claimed by different practices of meditation are often inconsistent with each other.
Second, then, as the foundations of dogma and doctrinal orthodoxy, revealed truth-claims eliminate the self-critical and communicative aspect of human reason, and they undermine the dialogical preconditions of transcendence and existential self-knowledge.
