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).
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.
Later, in the spin zones of cable TV, commentators repeatedly made the point that there are probably very few voters — some specifically mentioned "hockey moms" — who could explain the Bush doctrine.
"Can you explain the Bush Doctrine again, Rummy Sensei?" "We start with self-defense, which is legitimate, and journey up to anticipatory self-defense, which has to do with history and real estate.
What this episode shows is that Sarah Palin - she who could not explain the Bush Doctrine, name a Supreme Court case outside of Roe v. Wade or even list what newspapers she reads - remains shockingly unprepared for any significant policy role.
(How else can one explain the audacious Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed an end to European colonization of the entire Western Hemisphere?) Over time, as the nation's strength began to match its aspirations, Americans expanded their divine mandate to include the acquisition of territory by force.
He also asserted the existence of a medico-ecclesiastic alliance to explain the receipt of the doctrine in Protestant England under Henry VIII.
"For those a tad rusty on their US history," Davidson explained, "the Monroe Doctrine (introduced December 2,1823) said that further efforts by European governments to interfere with states in the Americas – the western hemisphere – would be viewed by the US as acts of aggression, and the US would intervene".
Such diversity of religious and moral opinion cannot not be explained by the doctrine of innate ideas but can be explained, Locke held, on his own account of the origins of ideas.
