Sentence examples for fixed doctrine from inspiring English sources

It was the first time the court had ever restricted gun regulation, but the 5-to-4 vote also suggests that the decision is not fixed doctrine.

But for Appleby's subjects freedom was an open concept, not a fixed doctrine.

As with the other Gnostic gospels, its mere existence showed that there was no such thing as fixed doctrine, or that there wasn't at the beginning.

In American Christianity, many churches engage in such corporate inclusive worship, even though they may have their fixed doctrines and requirements for membership.

In it, he proclaims that the church must be open and humble to people's real needs, and not too rigidly fixed on doctrine.

The main difference between them came out when Periyar stood for the total eradication of Hinduism to which Gandhi objected saying that Hinduism is not fixed in doctrines but can be changed.

Anarchism does not offer a fixed body of doctrine from a single particular world view, instead fluxing and flowing as a philosophy.

The present article concentrates on the historical forces that transformed the primitive Christian movement into a church that was recognizably "catholic"—that is, possessing identifiable norms of doctrine and life, fixed structures of authority, and a universality (the original meaning of the term catholic) by which the church's membership could extend, at least in principle, to all of humanity.

He noted its fading luminosity, speculated about its origin, and used the lack of observed parallax to argue that it was in the sphere of fixed stars, further undermining the doctrine of the immutability of the heavens (the idea accepted since Aristotle that the celestial spheres were perfect and unchanging).

The "find, fix, finish" doctrine that has fueled America's post-9/11 borderless war is being refined and institutionalized.

By the time he returned in October 1836, he had doubts about the doctrine that species were fixed and unchanging.