Sentence examples for doctrinal thought from inspiring English sources

While artworks exist as compliments to doctrinal thought, they are also integral components to ritual and belief, and can even underpin and inspire new forms of religious thought.

Especially important is the analysis of consciousness or citta, on which much of Abhidharma doctrinal thought is built.

Liability rules have been varyingly understood in doctrinal thought, for example as protection mechanisms stemming from the law of torts that involve a collective decision as to the value of the entitlement (Calabresi and Melamed [1972]), or as purely bilateral bargaining based ad hoc rules that allow the concerned party to "take now and pay later" (Merges [1996]).

Dogma is not doctrinal opinion, not the pronouncement of any given teacher, but doctrinal statute (decretum).

In Russia, the doctrinal writers whose thought was most influential and often most profound were also those whose prose was most brilliant.

It shaped the boundaries of a nebulous and much-contested late nineteenth-century doctrinal category in legal thought: the realm of "quasi-contract". It exemplified the distinctiveness the exceptionalism of Anglo-American contractual theory, as often contrasted with Roman law and other European understandings.

How do supposedly deep doctrinal chasms recede from view?

The decision may have been a political masterstroke, many thought, but it was a doctrinal dud.

Like many –isms, naturalism is perhaps better thought of as an orientation with doctrinal implications than as a doctrine per se.

Although much of the Abhidharma mindset and something of its method draw on the Āgamas/Nikāyas, i.e., the collections of sūtras (Pali, suttas), the main body of its literature contains interpretations of the Buddha's discourses specific to each school of thought and philosophical elaborations of selectively emphasized doctrinal issues.

Indeed, the thought of the Hasidic "rabbis" is best expressed in doctrinal works, most of which took the form of sermons on the weekly sections of the Pentateuch and other liturgical lessons.