Sentence examples for doctrinal significance from inspiring English sources

There is no hint that Stephen assigned doctrinal significance to the death of Jesus.

In an age where most teenagers and many adults have hundreds of "friends" on Facebook, it is difficult to see why the term "friend" should continue to carry such weighty doctrinal significance.

Yet, the doctrinal significance of the condemnation has received very diverse assessments.

The doctrines of the atonement (to which Bosanquet often referred, using the words of Goethe, as 'dying in order to live') and of 'justification by faith' (which emphasised the presence of religious consciousness in 'works') have a practical rather than a doctrinal significance.

As a matter of doctrinal significance, Falun Gong is intended to be "formless," having little to no material or formal organization.

Nevertheless, what were labeled with the rather elastic term "heresies" sometimes had doctrinal import.

Madonna, in Christian art, depiction of the Virgin Mary; the term is usually restricted to those representations that are devotional rather than narrative and that show her in a nonhistorical context and emphasize later doctrinal or sentimental significance.

But it seemed to be a minor doctrinal point, with little historical significance.

To sum up, we can tentatively conclude that the significance of the three versions of each doctrinal essay is primarily chronological: In each triad, the "upper" essay appears to be of earlier date than the "middle" essay, which in turn seems earlier than the "lower" one.

1. Doctrinal disagreement.

Doctrinal Paradox & International Law.