Sentence examples for doctrinal definition from inspiring English sources
One reason her mature religious views elude specification is that she took no interest in creedal or doctrinal definition.
He may not realize that the term only came into use in the 11th century, and then only in the Western church, or that every week hundreds of millions of Orthodox Christians and Protestants are nurtured by the bread and wine of communion without reference to that doctrinal definition.
They are pressing state legislatures to pass laws to allow them to discriminate against people who don't follow their doctrinal definitions of morality.
His doctrinal intransigence, however, occasioned the definitive schism between the Eastern and Western churches in 1054.
Mr. McGerr evades such problems by collapsing regional, doctrinal, class, gender, racial and political distinctions into a broad definition of progressives and progressivism.
The definition of the church's teaching authority must show that these modifications do not exceed the limits of legitimate doctrinal development.
Predestination was its doctrinal core.
It was a perfectly doctrinal speech.
Syncretism is common, and doctrinal rigidity rare.
Breton, however, demanded firm doctrinal allegiance.
Its withholding of an encore felt doctrinal.
