Sentence examples for formulation of doctrine from inspiring English sources

His writings sought an orthodox formulation of doctrine on the nature of Christ.

Believing that divine truth and human salvation are at stake, Christians take the formulation of doctrine with the utmost seriousness.

Zanchius gave Reformed orthodoxy its classic formulation of the doctrine of the perseverance of the elect.

By excluding several extreme positions from the circle of orthodoxy, the formulation of the doctrine of the Trinity in the 4th century determined the course of subsequent discussion about the person of Christ.

A leader of the Virginia patriots on the eve of the American Revolution (1775 83), Mason served on the Committee of Safety and in 1776 drafted the state constitution, his declaration of rights being the first authoritative formulation of the doctrine of inalienable rights.

One formulation of the doctrine is given in the Bhagavadgita when Krishna tells Prince Arjuna: Whenever there is a decline of righteousness [dharma] and rise of unrighteousness then I send forth Myself.

The first modern formulation of the doctrine was that of the French writer Montesquieu in De l'esprit des lois (1748), although the English philosopher John Locke had earlier argued that legislative power should be divided between king and Parliament.

But the threefold office enabled Protestant theology to take into account the complexity of the biblical and patristic pictures of Christ as no oversimplified theory was able to do, and it is probably the chief contribution of the reformers to the theological formulation of the doctrine of the person and work of Christ.

Perhaps, though, this formulation of the doctrine is misleading, and there is a better formulation available.

The Summa de bono of Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) is considered to be the first systematic formulation of a doctrine of the transcendentals.

The so-called Athanasian Creed (also known by the Latin words it begins with, as the Quicumque vult) is a widely adopted and beloved formulation of the doctrine.