In "Saint Charles, Eragny," dating from 1891, the subtle brushwork is quite different from the systematic juxtaposition of square color blots favored by Signac in the name of the Pointillist doctrine.
When Pound abandoned Imagism, around 1914, he did so noisily, and in the name of another doctrine, which he (along with Wyndham Lewis) named Vorticism.
Against those who obsess that the Pope is failing to uphold doctrine, Francis recalls that, in the Gospel, such critics "represent the principal opposition to Jesus; they challenge him in the name of doctrine".
They are backed by leftwing intellectuals who see, in Lorca, a symbol for the butchery, cultural and human, carried out in the name of Franco's doctrine of "national Catholicism".
The Monroe Doctrine rightly bears the name of the president who in 1823 assumed the responsibility for its promulgation, but its formulation was the work of John Quincy Adams more than of any other single man.
Well, on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1980s and 1990s, deregulation became the name of the game; Alan Greenspan was almost deified; and the Greenspan doctrine – that financial engineering spread and virtually eliminated risk – was widely accepted.
Instead of reading scriptures, building temples, making offerings, reciting the name of the Buddha, and praying for rebirth in paradise, one should simply seek to discover one's own nature, in which all buddhas and Buddhist doctrines are immanent.
Burmese rulers, known as "kings of righteousness", justified wars in the name of what they called true Buddhist doctrine.
If people bring up the "Christian Crusades," (1095 1291), during which countless people were slaughtered and advanced civilizations destroyed, respond by showing them how these actions (while occasionally done in the name of Christianity) are actually contrary to Christian doctrine.
Indeed, believers seem willing to bend basic doctrines in the name of interfaith amity.
