"If there is one particular doctrine contained in it, it is that of sheer individualism.
Bishop Griswold sent a letter to his fellow primates saying he was "profoundly disturbed" by what he called "the caricature" of the Episcopal Church as disregarding Scripture and doctrine, contained in a statement by participants in the consecration ceremony.
Its doctrine contains palpable falsehoods which have to be concealed from the non-paying public: it is not in fact true that we are the spiritual survivors of an ancient alien race.
I shall not, therefore, list the close resemblances between these and the other documents; I shall simply count them in with the others when I come to describe, in a moment, the history and doctrine contained in this whole body of writing.
By 1253, 20 years after his quest had begun, Nichiren had reached his final conclusion: the true Buddhism was to be found in the Lotus Sūtra, and all other Buddhist doctrines were only temporary and provisional steps used by the historical Buddha as a pedagogical method to lead men to the full and final doctrine contained in the Lotus Sūtra.
At the local level, argues Dean May, a historian at the University of Utah, Mormons are far more "communal" in their attitudes than is normal in individualistic America.Cannon to the right of himMore controversially, early Mormon doctrine contained such startling departures from Christian orthodoxy that some conservative churches even now question whether Mormons are Christians at all.
"Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind" (TTP, chap. 13, G III.167/S 153).
Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist texts and doctrine contain no teachings in opposition to immunization.
If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed.
Their interpretation must move away from the explicit doctrines contained in "exoteric" works such as the Shifāʾ and recover "the unmixed and uncorrupted truth" set forth in the "Oriental Philosophy"—the existence of which, as noted above, is spurious.
