Sentence examples for doctrinal divisions from inspiring English sources

The Faith and Order movement, which originated in the United States, confronted the doctrinal divisions and sought to overcome them.

Today's crisis, which has seen the supreme leader abandon the pretence of neutrality in favour of the hard-line faction behind Mr Ahmadinejad, has exposed doctrinal divisions as never before.The cheated presidential candidates have appealed directly to the scholars of Qom without challenging velayat-faqih as a doctrine.

The heart of the office, though, was its doctrinal section.

Over time, as Donner shows, doctrinal and dynastic divisions among the Muslims created a need to enforce orthodoxy, rendering Islam more distinct from other faiths and hardening its boundaries.

Within the several traditions, doctrinal disputes have sometimes led to division or else have accompanied divisions caused otherwise.

The following year, Bucer wrote of his disappointment at doctrinal inflexibility: The extent of the theological division among the reformers became evident when the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V asked them to present their views to him in 1530 at the Diet of Augsburg.

Mr. bin Laden has tried to bridge divisions in a movement long plagued by doctrinal, ethnic and geographic differences.

Because since the 1980s, Rome has concentrated on asserting doctrinal clarity and uniformity, partly to restore direction following divisions opened up by the second Vatican council in the early 1960s.

But the second is virtually a statement of fact since church leaders in recent weeks became embroiled in doctrinal contortions over gender and sexuality, prompting mockery, outrage and division.

Even the divisions that began after Muhammad's sudden death were more political than doctrinal in nature, complicated by his not having a male heir.

He owed his success as much to the weakness and division of his opponents as to his own messianic zeal and doctrinal propaganda.