Sentence examples for doctrinal core from inspiring English sources

Predestination was its doctrinal core.

But for all of Catholicism's problems, the Christian denominations that did not have a Ratzinger — those churches that persisted in the spirit of the 1970s and didn't reassert a doctrinal core — have generally fared worse.

But Francis shares Benedict's core doctrinal positions and is not considered likely to push changes in positions like the church's ban on the ordination of women as priests or its strict opposition to abortion and gay marriage.

At first glance, the core doctrinal books of the Mozi may appear to be continuous, unified essays.

This article focuses on aspects of Mohist thought as presented in the core doctrinal books (the ten triads, books 8-37) and the dialogues (books 46-49).

Given these considerations, we cannot safely attribute to Mo Di himself all of the views expressed in the core doctrinal books, nor, a fortiori, those advanced in the rest of the anthology.

From the Prophet's lifetime to the Abbasids, Fatimids, Timurids, Ottomans, et al, the pattern repeated itself and with it always came a tighter code of warrior discipline, which merged easily with doctrinal Islam's core Puritanism and social discipline.

This, however, means that an educator can justifiably attempt to convince students that all religions are equally valid expressions of faith only if she or he can justifiably attempt to convince conservative proponents of some of these religions that some of their core doctrinal beliefs need to be modified or rejected.

The shift from fundamentalist separatism to "co-belligerency" required Falwell and other conservative evangelicals to shift their rhetoric away from the core doctrinal beliefs about which they preached on Sundays, toward a language of "traditional values" and "moral beliefs" that could be shared by conservative evangelicals, Catholics, Mormons and Jews.

This suggestion would help to explain the characteristic style of the core Mohist doctrinal essays, most of which are written in a simple, highly repetitive manner well suited to memorization and oral delivery, yet distinctive in the early Chinese literature for its ponderousness and inelegance.

Because his principal dispute was with papal authority, rather than with doctrinal matters, he remained a believer in core Catholic theological teachings, despite his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church.