As with Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, both Marinus' and Damascius' works are biographies written by students praising extensively the achievements of their teachers both in doctrine and in philosophical life.
And they belong to a church, which promulgates that idea--in proclamation, in ritual, in doctrine.
In France, too, both the doctrine and the courts have refused to take Cujus est solum literally.
In both subtypes, doctrines and teachings are associated with the careers of distinct personalities who play important roles in their origin and formation.
Before Grosseteste, Aristotle's text was considered very difficult, both in doctrine and in language, and it seems to have caused some concern because of its apparent disagreement with the dominant Augustinian theory of knowledge.
He works out his attack on both doctrines in the course of a reply to Henry of Ghent in Ordinatio 1, d. 3, pars 1, q. 4. (For the text and translation, see Wolter [1987], 96 132).
While many of the churches varied both in practices and in doctrine, at the conservative end, women were not allowed to wear pants or cut their hair or go to college.
But the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (both grounded in the doctrine of popular sovereignty), along with the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857, opened all the territories to slavery.
Moreover, because the ideas and arguments involved in this doctrine are both obscure and unconvincing, we find, in practice, that the doctrine has little or no influence in directing human conduct.
In 1549, however, Bullinger and Calvin succeeded in overcoming the differences in doctrine and produced the Consensus Tigurinus (Zurich Consensus).
