No general — not even a self-conscious modernizer and communicator like Petraeus — can win the confidence of his own soldiers through the quality of his doctrinal ideas.
No general not even a self-conscious modernizer and communicator like Petraeus can win the confidence of his own soldiers through the quality of his doctrinal ideas.
By Erin Overbey August 31, 2011 No general — not even a self-conscious modernizer and communicator like Petraeus — can win the confidence of his own soldiers through the quality of his doctrinal ideas.
But the practitioner should know the later doctrinal ideas so as to be able to recognise what is and what isn't of the Theravadan tradition and avoid complicating their practice.
Rumsfeld believes that one long-held belief among Middle East analysts is overdue for reconsideration: the idea that doctrinal differences prevent Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and religious and secular Muslims, from pursuing common projects in anti-American terrorism.
Part of Obama's anti-doctrinal doctrine is that it insists on the recognition of differences in a way that Bush's fixed ideas did not.
Section 2 describes encroachments by these bodies of law into contract and the doctrinal, economic, and moral ideas that each employs.
The story of New York cinephilia is the story of Vogel's successes and failures, of his accurate and futuristic view of the cinema to come as well as of the doctrinal assumptions that got in the way — ideas that have, amazingly, been belatedly resurgent among today's critics and that, in their way, resist the very current of appreciation that he sought to inculcate.
Such arguments from silence, however, did not suffice to establish a dogma, and on the positive side even the earliest doctrinal and liturgical testimony in support of the idea has appeared relatively late in history.
Both belong to a post-ideological political era, liberally borrowing ideas from the rival side and resisting doctrinal constraints.
To criticize past popes on basic doctrinal matters is to question the doctrine of papal infallibility.
