Sentence examples for doctrinal formulation from inspiring English sources
It has no formal organizational structure nor doctrinal formulation but is centred in the veneration of small roadside images and in the agricultural rites of rural families.
The normative function of doctrinal formulation is a typically vain effort to fix and conserve an interpretation of the original dogmas of a given tradition.
This calls forth a special sort of doctrinal formulation: apologetics, the vindication of the true faith against its detractors or disbelievers.
The Thirty-nine Articles (1563) is the only doctrinal formulation other than the early creeds recognized in the Church of England and its offshoots, but its authority is not great.
Wāṣil's doctrinal formulations gave the Muʿtazilah faction coherence as a religious sect.
It took some 350 years to get from the apostolic age to the doctrinal formulations of the Nicene Creed.
One would think that the available history on such matters would have some bearing on how significant interesting and new doctrinal formulations might truly be to the church.
A prime example is Thomas Aquinas's participation in the rediscovery of Aristotelian categories (e.g., substance, quantity, quality, and relation), even though he exceeded and transformed them in the service of theological, ethical, and sacramental teachings that in turn shaped doctrinal conceptions and formulations in the Catholic church of the West.
Schmithausen in particular claims that the idealist formulation arose not out of purely theoretical or doctrinal concerns, but rather as a generalization based on the insights derived from meditative practice.
Doctrinal disputes have contributed to the development of additional creedal formulations called ʿaqāʾid (singular, ʿaqīdah), but these do not divide Islam into clearly marked confessional groupings or denominations such as exist in Christianity.
The Reformation in the 16th century led to the formulation of declarations aiming at a definition of all the main points of the doctrinal system.
