Sentence examples for key doctrines from inspiring English sources

But it departs substantially on key doctrines, a fact that has often made it a target of hostility.

"A novice to religion who had never read the Bible before would be able to read through this graphic novel trilogy and have an understanding of some of the key narratives as well as key doctrines in the different books," he says, "especially the Epistles.

The doctrines concerning the mortality of the individual soul, the eternity of the world, and the existence of a single Mind for the whole human race to the exclusion of individual minds were key doctrines for Averroës; they had some basis but not much in the thought of Aristotle.

Reports of Epicurus' "Key Doctrines" (see the entry on Epicurus) include instead a contractarian view of justice for mutual protection from harm (reminiscent of Glaucon's initial proposal about justice in Republic Book II, which itself seems to echo the nomos-phusis debate among the sophists).

The action itself, and the way its sections both connect and reflect each other, indicate that the movie's key doctrine is the repetition of history.

"Race science" was all the rage in Europe in those days, and for students of Central Africa the key doctrine was the so-called Hamitic hypothesis, propounded by John Hanning Speke, the Nile explorer.

The principle – that a community has the right to give or withhold its consent to proposed projects that may affect lands that they customarily own, occupy or use – is now a key doctrine in international law and central to the RSPO's principles and criteria.

At 8 30 pm Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office in a speech that laid out a key doctrine of his administration's future foreign policy: "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them".

Lefèvre's place on the map of late medieval and Renaissance philosophy is difficult to pinpoint in a single key doctrine or even a single work.

The importance of rigorous application of theory to solving social problems has been proffered by Birckmayer and Weiss in their Theory-Based Evaluation approach [ 39], and is a key doctrine for health promotion and health education development and evaluation [ 40].

Kuhn's contribution to the philosophy of science marked not only a break with several key positivist doctrines, but also inaugurated a new style of philosophy of science that brought it closer to the history of science.