Burke gave only qualified support to movements for parliamentary reform; though he accepted the possibility of widening political participation, he rejected any doctrine of mere rule of numbers.
It's as if his subjectivity gains a higher, impersonal, transcendent authority — a self-separating, self-sustaining voice over and above that of his own mere person — not from the doctrine of the Catholic Church but from its aesthetic.
If one diminishes the doctrine of the resurrection to mere symbolism, it waters down the spiritual significance and power of the belief, he said.
Both of these films are but mere glimpses of the far-reaching effects of the doctrine of intolerance.
First, many of us are concerned about the traditional doctrine of hell for reasons of justice and holiness, not mere sentimentality.
They accepted Jesus as God's revelation but still a mere man, divine by office rather than by nature; Socinians thus rejected the doctrine of the Trinity.
In his first campaign for Congress, he admitted that he was not a member of any church and that "in early life" he had argued for the "Doctrine of Necessity" — that is, a belief in man as a mere pawn of universal law, without free will.
The doctrine of balance, so appealing to the reasonable person, is a shallow matter of mere arithmetic.
The doctrine of maya was totally rejected.
Eschatology, the doctrine of the last things.
