Sentence examples for doctrinal politics from inspiring English sources

But the films that scored at the box office avoided doctrinal politics.

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.

After the cold war he published The End of History and The Last Man, which argued that doctrinal conflict over which sort of politics worked best was finished: liberal democracy had won.

It's almost as if what's happened to American Christianity from a doctrinal perspective is transpiring simultaneously in politics.

It's a political question, not a doctrinal one".

Gardiner is so intent on sharing his formidable research that one gets swamped by the minutiae of local politics, of Bach's disputes with authority, of doctrinal nuance.

Politics in the United States never quite conformed to the doctrinal patterns exhibited in continental Europe or even Britain, mainly because there was never a monarchy, an aristocracy, or an established church for conservatives to defend or for liberals to attack.

But while members of the Christian right set aside doctrinal differences to rally around a shared cultural agenda, the left fell victim to internal identity politics and theological disputes.

Doctrinal debate was complicated by the rivalry among bishops and theologians as well as by the intrusion of imperial politics that had begun at Nicaea.

In modern Britain and the United States, it was assumed that the intellectual, and then institutional, separation of Christianity and modern politics had been mutually beneficial — that the modern state had benefited by being absolved from pronouncing on doctrinal matters, and that Christianity had benefited by being freed from state interference.

Many Catholics do not follow the Church on doctrinal matters involving such issues as abortion and marriage and divorce; does the Pope expect them to follow him on politics?