Sentence examples for doctrinal precepts from inspiring English sources
Imagine, if you can, a novel that imbues pot roast, green beans and scalloped potatoes with Gnostic import — not just evoking the aroma of Sundays past, with their "old orderliness, aloof from all disruption," as in Marilynne Robinson's last novel, "Home," but embodying specific doctrinal precepts and divine mysteries.
Given that religion is not to be identified with ceremonies or "divine" precepts but with a veneration for the sublimity of nature, neither ceremonial performance (ingesting peyote as part of a ritual) nor doctrinal commands (refraining from work on the Sabbath) is essential to the true religious life.
But violating constitutional precepts?
Predestination was its doctrinal core.
Syncretism is common, and doctrinal rigidity rare.
Stalin deviated from these precepts.
It was a perfectly doctrinal speech.
It required unlearning Army precepts, under fire.
Breton, however, demanded firm doctrinal allegiance.
Its withholding of an encore felt doctrinal.
