As for moral culpability, Hart argues that we should explain excuse doctrines not as aiming to exempt the morally faultless from criminal liability, but as aiming to protect individual freedom by subjecting to liability only those who had a fair opportunity to avoid it (1968: 17 24).
Kennedy was spared having to explain Catholic doctrines that never mattered much to him.
On the other hand, If one thinks that it can be abandoned completely, as can the Rig Veda, then one still needs to explain what doctrines and teaching are central and where such items can be found (i.e. in what text).
Wieseltier was provoked by Sullivan's use, as his quote of the day, of a line from a letter W. H. Auden wrote to Ursula Niebuhr in June , 1944 Trying to explain the doctrine of the Trinity to readers of The New Republic is not easy.
For example, by the end of thirteenth century, most philosophers use it to explain the doctrine of creation, saying that creatures are related to God by a real relation, whereas God is related to them by a mere relation of reason (cf. Henninger 1989).
Another 1832 revelation "on Priesthood" was the first to explain priesthood doctrine.
"Sŭngwŏn ka" by the monk Hyegŭn, transcribed in hyangch'al, explains Buddhist doctrine and confirms the emergence of the kasa form at the end of Koryŏ period.
But the self-sufficient Mourides don't care; they raise money for their favourite causes and build their own mosques with no need of Saudi cash.At his home in Touba, a pious but cosmopolitan place where local businesses boast of branches in every corner of the earth, one of Bamba's grandsons, Cheikh Ka, explains the doctrine of self-reliance.
In his treatise On Power, al-Ghazālī (1056 1111) explains the doctrine of acquisition as a middle position between that of the determinists, who deny that created things have power, and that of the Muʿtazilites, who hold that humanity produces its own actions.
As David Harvey has explained, these doctrine function much like occult systems or religious faiths, given that they don't hold-up to much logical or empirical testing.
