Sentence examples for doctrinal material from inspiring English sources

The Abhidhamma texts are not systematic philosophical treatises but a detailed scholastic reworking, according to schematic classifications, of doctrinal material appearing in the Suttas.

Washington was, understandably, so focussed on how Bush would "make the case" for war with Iraq that the State of the Union's foreign-policy doctrinal material, which preceded Bush's discussion of Saddam Hussein, got almost no attention.

The Abhidhamma Pitaka, which was apparently accepted only by the Sarvastivadins and the Theravadins and in two quite different forms is basically a schematization of doctrinal material from the sutras.

Ahiṃsā being central to the Jain philosophy, Jain Ācāryas have produced, through ages, quite elaborate and detailed doctrinal materials concerning its various aspects.

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The diverse ritualistic, mythical, doctrinal, legal, institutional and material features of religion may not necessarily cohere with experiential, emotive, spiritual or contemplative considerations about the origin and operation of conscience.

But the idea that comments warmed to by atheist liberals – those great irrelevances to the church – represent some sort of material change in the complex doctrinal politics of his organisation seems doctrinally naive.

After the iconoclastic controversy of the 8th 9th century, which disputed the religious function and meaning of icons, the Eastern Church formulated the doctrinal basis for their veneration: since God had assumed material form in the person of Jesus Christ, he also could be represented in pictures.

Clearly Hobsbawm owed much of this to his lifelong adherence to Marxism, which in his hands was a subtle and flexible tool for organising and interpreting historical material, a whole intellectual world removed from the rigid doctrinal orthodoxies of the Soviet Academy and its mindless satellites in the other countries of the Warsaw pact.

But I still wondered why no one seemed to question spending an entire evening begging for forgiveness and material wealth from a wrathful spirit obsessed with his followers' doctrinal purity.

As a matter of doctrinal significance, Falun Gong is intended to be "formless," having little to no material or formal organization.