Sentence examples for doctrinal work from inspiring English sources

Scholarship, having laboriously reconstructed substantial portions of Nicetas's theological tracts, has furnished sufficient evidence to identify his principal doctrinal work, the Competentibus ad baptismum instructionis libelli sex ("Six Books of Instructions for Baptismal Candidates").

Even though some Christians hold governing positions which give them official responsibilities for doctrine and others work in theology as a professional vocation, all the faithful engage, with varying degrees of competence, in theological and doctrinal work.

For one thing, the sermon series is essentially a doctrinal work.

As heads of the church, the Solomonic monarchs actively participated in the development of religious culture and discipline by building and beautifying churches, repressing "pagan" practices, and promoting the composition of theological and doctrinal works.

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.

In England, Richard Baxter (1615 91) and John Bunyan (1628 88) were among the most eloquent of the 17th-century Puritans who composed doctrinal works of literary merit; along with the epic poet John Milton (1608 74), whose prose works hardly count for less than his poetry, they exercised a powerful influence on the English language through their doctrinal prose.

The SubGenius Foundation has published several official teachings, as well as non-doctrinal works by Stang.

Thanks to such generous concessions of political power by the Congress, Muslim leaders, including Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876 1949), agreed to set aside doctrinal differences and work with the Congress toward the attainment of national freedom from British rule.

3. See the section on doctrinal positions and works for a discussion of this work and references to English translations.

In spite of his ministerial responsibilities Bunyan found time to publish a large number of doctrinal and controversial works in the last 10 years of his life.

These are the Twenty Verses (Viṃśatikākārikā & Viṃśatikāvṛtti), the Thirty Verses (Triṃśikākārikā), and the Three Natures Exposition (Trisvabhāvanirdeśa). See the section on doctrinal positions and works for references to English translations.