Sentence examples for doctrines and practices from inspiring English sources

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.

He accepted the supreme authority of the Scripture, although he applied it rigorously to all doctrines and practices.

Two years ago he published "Papal Sin," a fierce criticism of the Vatican over the centuries, and of many of its doctrines and practices.

This primer, which sorts through the doctrines and practices of the Mormon faith, "is eminently fair, well researched and exhaustive," Timothy Egan wrote here last year.

Following the lengthy Second Vatican Council, called by Pope John XXIII in 1959, the Church had made a determined effort to modernize some of its doctrines and practices.

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

As its senior elder he dominated the formulation of its doctrines, worship, and practices.

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.