Sentence examples for doctrinal position from inspiring English sources

By this I do not mean that everybody should join a church or submit to an orthodox doctrinal position - quite the contrary.

I don't see anything salutary in making it harder for people to protect themselves from HIV in the interests of doctrinal position".

John Greening, national representative of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, described it as fundamentalist in the historic Protestant sense -- "a solid, evangelical, doctrinal position".

Neither the identity nor the period of the Ikhwān aṣ-Ṣafāʾ has been definitively established, but the various authors of the Rasāʾil do seem to reflect the doctrinal position of the Ismāʿīlīyah, a radical Shīʿī Muslim sect influenced by Manichaeism and Neoplatonism, which preached an esoteric interpretation of the Qurʾān open only to initiates (see Ismāʿīlīte).

Pentecostals and charismatics look to the Bible to support their doctrinal position.

"We have probably the least popular doctrinal position of anybody around," Steve Drain, a top Westboro official, tells VICE News.

It has done so with great theological finesse, insisting, for example, on the difference between essential Church doctrine and doctrinal positions that are merely well-established traditions.

Doctrinal positions may be modelled around any or all of the themes of the cosmogonic myth.

It accepts the Apostles' and Nicene creeds and its prayer book as statements of its doctrinal positions.

The issues raised by these early schisms and the positions adopted by them enabled the Sunni orthodoxy to define its own doctrinal positions in turn.

In 1992 the Vatican issued a new universal Catechism of the Catholic Church that summarized the church's doctrinal positions and teachings since the second Vatican Council (1962 65).