Sentence examples for doctrinal importance from inspiring English sources

They alone, and not the general consensus of the community (ijmāʿ) essential to Sunnite Islām, determined matters of doctrinal importance and interpreted revelation.

Nevertheless, what were labeled with the rather elastic term "heresies" sometimes had doctrinal import.

The Eastern Empire was marked by closer relations between the political state and Christian Church, with doctrinal matters assuming an importance in eastern politics that they did not have in Western Europe.

In 1895 he became a PPS leader, and took the position that doctrinal issues were of minor importance and that socialist ideology should be merged with nationalist ideology, since that combination offered the greatest chance of restoring Polish independence.

Some claim it's a predominantly liberal movement, and in so much as one defines "liberal" as downplaying the importance of institutional and doctrinal authority, I suppose that's accurate.

As recently as last September, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, was defending the investigation and downplaying the importance of the LCWR and its members.

"I am not one for doctrinal purity, and I don't believe it is essential for evangelism about the church's role in our society or its importance.

He went on to add: "I am not one for doctrinal purity, and I don't believe it is essential for evangelism about the Church's role in our society or its importance".

Predestination was its doctrinal core.

It was a perfectly doctrinal speech.

Syncretism is common, and doctrinal rigidity rare.