Sentence examples for doctrinal foundation from inspiring English sources

He is an original and independent mind, and his writings have never seemed to be constructed on a doctrinal foundation.

This was a policy favoured by Macmillan's first chancellor, Peter Thorneycroft, and by his junior ministers, Nigel Birch and Enoch Powell - the latter providing the doctrinal foundation for polices thought obsolete in the 1950s but newly-fashionable 20 years later.

Market fundamentalism is the doctrinal foundation for this reactionary cult.

The full story about the spiritual and doctrinal foundation of the Orthodox Church includes a spirit of openness and receptivity.

Charles Fox Parham would build on this doctrinal foundation when he identified speaking in tongues as the Bible evidence of Spirit baptism.

Just to be clear, this joint claim derives from them both sharing the same doctrinal foundation: ʿAbd al-Wahhab's key text, The Book of Monotheism.

The doctrinal foundations of the Mushaʿshaʿ are found in Muḥammad ibn Falāḥ's Kalām al-mahdī ("The Words of the Mahdi").

Welby's doctrinal foundations as an undergraduate were laid at conservative evangelical house-parties, more like a boot-camp than a holiday.

But there are also those who believe that the attacks are aimed at the pope himself, that he is being blamed for disregarding the management (and machinations) of the church as he instead tries to cement its theological and doctrinal foundations.

Some of Bahá'u'lláh's most important writings include the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, literally the Most Holy Book, which is his book of laws, the Kitáb-i-Íqán, literally the Book of Certitude, which became the foundation of much of Bahá'í belief, the Gems of Divine Mysteries, which includes further doctrinal foundations, and the Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys which are mystical treatises.

The early Nauvoo years were a period of doctrinal innovation.