Sentence examples for doctrinal power from inspiring English sources

It created a Church of England, vesting the church's temporal and doctrinal power in the monarch.

The transparency of Mr. Bruni's effort is quite evident: to attack and remove all claims of religious doctrinal power and moral judgment and convert the church into a purely social service agency that demurs from commenting on ethical issues.

Many saw it as yet another sign that the true power of Benedict's papacy lies in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the doctrinal office, which he oversaw for two decades before becoming pope.

Doctrinal issues have been in the forefront during the papacy of Benedict XVI, who was in charge of the Vatican's doctrinal office before he became pope.

The brochure, though never completed and often dismissed as Lenin's most "Utopian" work, nevertheless served as Lenin's doctrinal springboard to power.

Panda diplomacy, which existed long before the doctrinal invention of "soft power," has been famously instrumental in breaking the diplomatic ice between China and other nations, perhaps most notably with Beijing's agreement to send two pandas to the National Zoo in Washington in 1972.

But it is also that mazars propagate a form of spiritual practice that navigates away from the "new traditionalism" of the Quran and the hadiths and instead concentrates on mysticism, emotion and spirituality of divine power: anathema to doctrinal purists.

Although he has no power to rule on doctrinal issues, the secretary of state sits in when the pope is ill.

Doctrinal lines hardened; the fight over nuclear power became a fight between doves and hawks as much as between greens and scorners of tree-hugging.

Such consequences need not dog legislative attempts to develop the law in a way which deviates from the doctrinal past, because legislative institutions have the power to sweep away the past in introducing new legislation, and to do so in such a way as to radically reform a whole area of law at one stroke.

He used the power of his position to institute doctrinal and liturgical standards for priests and bishops and to establish guidelines for the compilers of a new English translation of the Bible; the King James Version, as it was subsequently known, was published in 1611, after Bancroft's death.