Sentence examples for doctrinal formation from inspiring English sources

Through these activities they provide religious instruction (doctrinal formation), coaching in spirituality for lay people (spiritual formation), character and moral education (human formation), lessons in sanctifying one's work (professional formation), and know-how in evangelizing one's family and workplace (apostolic formation).

By 1990, Tkach authorized the formation of a "Doctrinal Manual Group", consisting of thirteen ministers and Ambassador College faculty members with the mission of assuring doctrinal consistency, refinement, and advice to the Pastor General.

Throughout the subsequent two centuries or so, doctrinal disputes arose between these two parties, resulting in the formation of various schools of thought (vāda; ācariyavāda) and teacher lineages (ācariyakula) (Vin 51 54; Mhv V 12 13. See Cousins 1991, 27 28; Frauwallner 1956, 5ff & 130ff; Lamotte 1988, 271ff).

The group emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell with the formation of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, with significant organizational and doctrinal changes under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford.

It was a perfectly doctrinal speech.

Predestination was its doctrinal core.

Syncretism is common, and doctrinal rigidity rare.

Breton, however, demanded firm doctrinal allegiance.

Dogma is not doctrinal opinion, not the pronouncement of any given teacher, but doctrinal statute (decretum).

Each theory of development has had its own distinctive prescription for doctrinal stability and doctrinal change.

Its withholding of an encore felt doctrinal.