It is possible to distinguish between, on the one hand, first-order religious expressions, directly reflecting primary religious experience, and, on the other, the interpretations of these in philosophically formulated doctrines whose articulation both contributes to and is reciprocally conditioned by a comprehensive belief-system.
Regular personal Bible reading is frequently recommended; Witnesses are discouraged from formulating doctrines and "private ideas" reached through Bible research independent of Watch Tower Society publications, and are cautioned against reading other religious literature.
In addition to its sentimental significance, the Holy Family with St. Anne also dramatized the recently formulated doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, which held that Mary was, from the first instant of her conception by her mother, free from original sin.
Many modern scholars have shown more sympathy with so-called heretics, suggesting at least that the controversy inspired by their dissent may have played a useful part in allowing the Church to develop and formulate its doctrine.
Unlike Disraeli, Herzl failed to crack the inner circles of power and influence and, aghast at the depth of hostility to Jews as an ethnic group, swung over to formulate his doctrine of ethnic ultranationalism, which Rabkin notes is a form of "collective assimilation".
There is a profoundly asymmetrical relationship between Trump and the Trumpist intellectuals, who must formulate their doctrine without much assistance from its namesake; Trump's political brand is based on his being the kind of guy who would never feel the need to explain himself to a bunch of scholars, no matter how supportive they were.
Technically, however, Shen Dao does not formulate a doctrine of determinism (the identity of naturally possible dao and the actual "Great" dao.
According to Thomas Aquinas, transcendental being extends only to created being, whereas Henry of Ghent and Meister Eckhart formulate a doctrine of the transcendentals in which God is the first known; Duns Scotus, finally, makes transcendental being indifferent to finite and infinite being; it is univocally common to God and creature.
He had each legal problem discussed before formulating any doctrines.
The Council of Nicaea and subsequent councils formulated the doctrines concerning the nature of the Godhead and the person of Christ.
