Sentence examples similar to exclusive doctrine from inspiring English sources

They point out that the questions raised by heresy are often legitimate, though heretics too quickly assume a one-sided and exclusive view of the doctrine they wish to impose on the entire church.

Each Kamcun also has a prayer hall for exclusive study of Buddhist doctrine and also has annexed tea house.

No less than China, which calls the South China Sea its "blue national soil", has taken up the cudgels for Selden's doctrine of exclusive waters.

They include a preamble to the bill that states, "Each religious organization, association, or society has exclusive control over its own religious doctrine, policy, teachings and beliefs regarding who may marry within their faith".

It was not that the Bacchic cult spread heretical beliefs about the gods Roman civic religion was never based on theological doctrine with pretensions to exclusive truth; rather, the growing secret cult led by male priests threatened the traditionally dominant position of senators in state religion.

In fact the importance of karmic outcomes and Buddhist doctrine are not mutually exclusive and form part of the same moral order; Dharma - the Buddha's teachings - is manifest in the law of karma which governs the way moral deeds affect individuals.

The doctrine is not arcane nor exclusive to Mexico.

In the middle of a tour for the paperback edition of The Shock Doctrine last week, Klein gave an exclusive interview to Portfolio.com.

This doctrine basically asserts that the British had exclusive colonial rights to "discovered" territories in the Americas, and thereby the right to claim Native lands to the exclusion of other European powers.

In relationships between the great world religions, dogmas and doctrines have usually been regarded as mutually exclusive.

Calvin preached the doctrine of predestination, which is by its nature exclusive: "All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death".