Sentence examples for doctrine accepted from inspiring English sources

The general doctrine accepted by this court, in the absence of legislation, is, that a carrier, unless there be a special contract, is only bound to carry over its own line, and then deliver to a connecting carrier.

"Utilitarianism would then become an esoteric doctrine, accepted by only a few philosophers who would, if challenged, deny its existence in public".

Christian doctrine accepted the ideas of Aristotle's original work, called Meteorologica, that winds were caused by exhalations from the Earth and that fierce storms were the work of God.

To avoid being disciplined, the pastors were required to admit that they broke church law.. Methodist doctrine accepts gay congregants but calls sex outside of heterosexual marriage "incompatible with Christian teaching".

In form they deal briefly with the doctrines accepted by Roman Catholics and Protestants alike and more fully with points of controversy.

Supporters of the doctrine also argue that evidence indicates that the doctrine was accepted in the very early church.

What we do today is in disregard of the doctrine long accepted and succinctly stated in the 1851 Term in Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 13 How.

Second, even if the doctrine is accepted, the most that may be required is that God's essential (real) properties are either identical with each other or equivalent to each other.

In preparation for the exams, he studied the Five Classics as Confucian students had for centuries, but he also was taught the emphasis of the Four Books of Zhu Xi (1130 1200), which was in line with the Neo-Confucian doctrine first accepted in mainstream Chinese education during the mid-13th century.

For a long time, of course, philosophy was included under religion's umbrella, not in the modern sense that leads to courses like "The Philosophy of Religion," but in the deeper sense in which religious doctrines are accepted as foundational and philosophy proceeds within them.

But at least those decisions are defended by a doctrine that accepts that there can be such a thing as contemporary extensions of older principles, and make no claim to be anything else.