Sentence examples for doctrinal to from inspiring English sources

A third reflects judgment over 3) the source of religious knowledge ranging from doctrinal to experiential [9].

The emphasis on a sudden conversion experience tended to reduce doctrinal preaching to a minimum, break down the old creedal standards, and undermine the concept of a learned pastoral ministry.

For thirty years, international human rights litigation in U.S. courts has developed with little attention to a lurking doctrinal objection to the entire enterprise.

Zhmud (2012a, 109 134) has argued that it begs the question to use a doctrinal criterion to identify Pythagoreans.

The nullification trial reversed the conviction in part because the condemnation proceeding had failed to consider the doctrinal exceptions to that stricture.

Pope Paul ordered the Doctrinal Congregation to summon Father Küng to Rome for a talk about his book.

That language is certainly suggestive of deference, beyond the employment area, to a church's doctrinal claims to special treatment.

Strictly speaking, the term Orthodox does not refer to doctrinal affirmations but to the observance of Torah, the Law.

Francis said his first step would be to consult with the church's doctrinal office "to tell me if there are studies on this".

Some faiths, not all, do raise scriptural or doctrinal objection to homosexual practice because that practice is said to contradict the essence of the "sacrament of matrimony".

These talks range from quite formal doctrinal lectures, to more informal chats about the application of faith to family life.