Sentence examples for doctrinal emphasis from inspiring English sources

Doctrinal emphasis is placed on the anticipated Second Coming of Christ and on the Last Judgment, after which the wicked will be destroyed and the chosen will be resurrected to live in a restored paradise on Earth.

Few challenged the Sunni assumption of superiority, while the Shias, with their doctrinal emphasis on martyrdom and victimhood, thrived on their own marginalisation.In this section Will the bloodstained Shias resist the urge to hit back?

Powell's cohort of officers had served in Vietnam and had known the war's entrapments firsthand; their doctrinal emphasis on short, popular, winnable wars was designed to prevent the recurrence of such a catastrophe.

In the 16th century, Protestant reformers adapted this practice by providing official printed catechisms for use with children, each more or less marked with the doctrinal emphasis brought by the particular reformer.

The doctrinal emphasis on the individual will (in choosing Jesus, in pursuing the moral life), their persecution at the hands of Europe's states and state churches, and the American history of frontier living and rebellion against "big government" in London make for a trinity of anti-government self-reliance.

A denomination, with its own distinctive doctrinal emphases, modes of worship and forms of organization, does not claim to be the only legitimate expression of Christianity, although it may claim to be the best.

Even Scalia felt the effect, though he argued that it was a matter of emphasis, not doctrinal change: "He's the Vicar of Christ.

Unlike the established Church of England, where an all-embracing tolerance of many religious styles was seen as a virtue, the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland puts great emphasis on doctrinal purity and obedience of one's conscience.

He recognizes that the Catholic church has placed excessive emphasis on doctrinal, bioethical and moral issues (paragraph 36), and makes note of the excessive reactions the Catholic church has had to "the decadent world" (paragraph 38), indicating instead the behavioral model set by Jesus when addressing the issue of adultery.

"There is a general lack of knowledge, implementation and emphasis of basic legal, regulatory, doctrinal and command requirements" in the military police at Abu Ghraib, his report said.

Its doctrinal teaching was a reaction against the Lutheran emphasis on the role of faith and God's grace and against Protestant teaching on the number and nature of the sacraments.