In the Christian period, images were largely used, not for aesthetic pleasure or admiration, but for ritual and doctrinal purposes.
Along with these doctrinal purposes, Augustine's obsessive engagement with the story of Adam and Eve spoke to something in his life.
Second, we will establish that to the extent Teague did change the law relevant to the retroactivity of new rules of criminal procedure, it departed from the doctrinal purposes underlying retroactivity and made the law hopelessly complex and unworkable.
Furthermore, an ideologically defined global alliance of democracies would face serious difficulties in determining whom to exclude and in striking a reasonable balance between its doctrinal and strategic purposes.
A doctrinal prologue presents the purpose of marriage for men as the assertion of virility rather than the consecration of devotion.
The capabilities, function, and doctrinal employment of aerospace forces.
In a blatant "Shut up and sit down, sisters" moment, the Vatican's doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, noted, "Occasional public statements by the L.C.W.R. that disagree with or challenge positions taken by the bishops, who are the church's authentic teachers of faith and morals, are not compatible with its purpose".
Although the primary purpose of meditation is the realization of truth, the doctrinal and experiential truths claimed by different practices of meditation are often inconsistent with each other.
Most of these documents were compiled with the purpose of expressing the church's doctrine; a few of them originally served other purposes (e.g., Luther's catechisms) but were soon given the rank of doctrinal standards.
Maneuver warfare, often controversial and requiring operational and tactical innovation, poses perhaps the most important doctrinal questions currently facing the conventional military forces of the U.S. Its purpose is to defeat the enemy by disrupting the opponent's ability to react, rather than by physical destruction of forces.
Finally, appreciating the understandable fear of the hedonic costs of mental illness helps explain the difficulty courts have had with the apparently easy doctrinal question of whether interacting with others is a major life activity for purposes of the definition of disability under the ADA, and thus helps supply an answer to that question.
