Sentence examples for doctrinal content from inspiring English sources
"I accept without equivocation," the oath went, "the doctrinal content of the faith as passed down in unbroken sequence from the apostles through the orthodox fathers, always with the same meaning and the very same interpretation of that meaning.
His three series of Hymns of Faith and Hope (1857 66) were sung throughout the English-speaking world, although now they are considered lacking in scriptural imagery and doctrinal content.
Their doctrinal content forms a complete theology, covering the Trinity and angelic world, the incarnation and redemption, and the last things, and provides a symbolic and mystical explanation of all that is.
The particular character of each religious emotion-type would be impossible apart from this doctrinal content.
While true, this statement is uninformative, since the label conveys no clear doctrinal content.
irrelevant to the philosophical (argumentative and doctrinal) content of the dialogues" (p. xxiv).
The doctrinal contents of the tradition were initially passed on orally and memorized by the students.
Cabezon (1992) usefully summarizes Vasubandhu's arguments here in three general categories: Arguments based on the structure of the canon; arguments based on doctrinal contents; and arguments based upon "intercanonical criteria for authenticity".
Accordingly, he also modifies its "content", namely the disposition and doctrinal purport of the individual treatises of the work.
As Pike notes, it is possible in principle that whole traditions of mystical experience are more concerned to communicate the doctrinal implications of such experience rather than its phenomenological content (1992, p. 174), and that they adopt a vocabulary for talking about the experiences that will suit this purpose.
Climate change presents an opportunity for diverse religious traditions to set aside doctrinal differences to work together on an issue with indisputable moral content and global importance, potentially establishing the foundation for future inter-religious efforts on intractable problems.
