Sentence examples for fixed doctrines from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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

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).

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

A closely related modernist doctrine that the same faddists have "fixed on," the dean continued, is opposition to "the separation of ownership and control".

While the basic tenets of Catholic belief may be fixed, there's always tension among theologians about how those doctrines ought to be understood and applied".

The claim that in an imperfect world one's hopes are better fixed on the afterlife than on hopes of earthly paradises is official church doctrine.

Scalia was known as a strict adherent to the constitution and a leading proponent of the doctrine known as originalism, which essentially holds the meaning of the constitution is fixed.

According to this doctrine, crises tend to occur on critical days, which were supposed to be a fixed time after the contraction of a disease.