Sentence examples for doctrine and practice from inspiring English sources

Early Christian attempts to forge a "unity of doctrine and practice" often dissolved into theological controversies, many of which persist.

One of the many "best kept secrets" of the Catholic church is its development of doctrine and practice.

He believes that Buddhist doctrine and practice anticipate and affirm the "modular" view of the mind favored by much contemporary cognitive science.

The caste system, which has organized Indian society for millennia, is thoroughly legitimated by and intertwined with Hindu religious doctrine and practice.

Anglicans, called Episcopalians in the United States, are working mightily to forge a worldwide church that is led by clergy and laity, united by doctrine and practice, but that in the future will allow for some local variation.

The attempted solution to the threatened split has been the development of an Anglican covenant, of agreed doctrine and practice, designed to head off any individual church's innovation that might be disapproved of by others.

Anglicanism was born in rebellion against unfounded and unfair doctrine and practices.

Rather, the habits of this world -- in this case, democracy and Darwinianism -- had so thoroughly worked their ways into his soul that it actually seemed perfectly reasonable to him to suggest, if only for the briefest of moments, that I should look forward to the extinction of people who disagree with us on matters of doctrine and practice including, it seems, my own mother.

In the churches of the British tradition, the annual Conference is the supreme authority for doctrine, order, and practice.

Constitutional law, the body of rules, doctrines, and practices that govern the operation of political communities.

Still, the church's doctrines and practices, past and present, don't fully account for evangelical uneasiness.