Human rights lawyers say he has been heavy-handed in forcing Indonesians to adhere to the national dogma called Pancasila, which calls for a belief in one god, national unity, consensus democracy, humanitarianism and social justice.
Suspected of harbouring heretical views (i.e., Sabellianism, which emphasized God's unity at the expense of the distinct persons), Jerome insisted that the answer to ecclesiastical and theological problems resided in oneness with the Roman bishop.
Henriquez brought calm, God and unity to the most difficult moments, said Bustos.
The family continued to perform around the world until 1955, and the Baroness lectured and wrote extensively on the family's hardships, faith in God and unity.
He did some boasting and reminiscing; he also preached about God, urged unity and compared hip-hop to a girl seduced by the gangsta way of life.
Arianism is often considered to be a form of Unitarian theology in that it stresses God's unity at the expense of the notion of the Trinity, the doctrine that three distinct persons are united in one Godhead.
In what are regarded as the more personalistic religions of the West, doctrines and dogmas tend to function as aids to theological reflection (e.g., the concept of God's unity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam).
Suharto shrewdly retained Sukarno's pancasila ideology, first put forward as Indonesian state philosophy in 1945 - the five vague principles were a belief in God, national unity, humanitarianism, social justice and democracy.
On the question of the relationship of faith to works, the Muʿtazilah who called themselves "champions of God's unity and justice"—taught, like the Khārijites, that works were an essential part of faith but that a person guilty of a grave sin, unless he repented, was neither a Muslim nor yet a non-Muslim but occupied a "middle ground".
