On those doctrinal grounds, Lashkar-e-Taiba has much in common with the goals of Al Qaeda, terrorism experts say.
Although some of them refuse on doctrinal grounds to get involved in running the country, others do so with a will.
There is a parallel here with the case of Jehovahs Witnesses who used to be able to refuse, on doctrinal grounds, blood transfusions for their children whose lives depended on the procedure.
Instead, according to these groups, the Christian essence was discernible in acts of piety, closeness to the fatherly heart of God as shown in the life of Jesus, and intimate communion with God on emotional or affective not cognitive, rational, or substantial (i.e., doctrinal)—grounds.
Yet he and many fellow-travellers adhere to a school of thought, influenced by Saudi Wahhabism among other currents, which holds the rival sect to be an elemental threat to Islam as a whole.Before their overthrow, Mr bin Laden's protectors in Afghanistan, the Taliban, mounted merciless pogroms against that country's Shia minority, the Hazara, on purely doctrinal grounds.
The question facing the American bishops, who oppose same-sex marriage on doctrinal grounds, is how it will choose to address this momentum".
The letter did not stake out new doctrinal ground.
It lacks a male workforce adequate to run parishes and educate Catholic children, but if it can not arrest the erosion of doctrine brought about by what the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith sees as a facet of the "radical feminism" among women religious, the Vatican stands to lose a lot of doctrinal ground.
This produces on the one hand sectarian and regional eclecticism and on the other hand a vigorous attempt to establish doctrinal common ground.
Even in its heyday many philosophers who on either doctrinal or sociological grounds can be grouped with the logical empiricists did not see themselves that way.
While he gives no ground on doctrinal issues, he also makes it clear that weakness is human.
