Sentence examples for doctrinal tool from inspiring English sources

Luther had quietly commandeered the folksongs of his day, transforming them into congregational hymns, turning what was a basic and easily approachable musical form into an enduring doctrinal tool, never more so than in his Easter hymn, "Christ lag in Todesbanden", which Bach clothed in music of unforgettable dramatic force in his cantata of that title.

Many Americans have always admired the style of belief that is spiritual but not doctrinal, pluralistic and not exclusive, which offers tools for serving the greater good but is not marred by intolerant theological judgments.

A little better is the tool kit of familiar types: the political churchman joining in civic debates, the doctrinal churchman teaching from the pulpit, the administrator making church agencies run smoothly or the comforter offering solace and performing good deeds.

Clearly Hobsbawm owed much of this to his lifelong adherence to Marxism, which in his hands was a subtle and flexible tool for organising and interpreting historical material, a whole intellectual world removed from the rigid doctrinal orthodoxies of the Soviet Academy and its mindless satellites in the other countries of the Warsaw pact.

Predestination was its doctrinal core.

It was a perfectly doctrinal speech.

Syncretism is common, and doctrinal rigidity rare.

Breton, however, demanded firm doctrinal allegiance.

Its withholding of an encore felt doctrinal.

But doctrinal changes are helping too.

"We have sustained a doctrinal defeat.