Sentence examples for moral doctrine from inspiring English sources

In his "Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus", sent with the letter to Rush, Jefferson states that Jesus corrected the Jews' deism, purified and perfected their moral doctrine, pushed morality beyond actions, and taught of a life after death.

In one form or another, this moral doctrine has been the justification for every welfare program.

Reconstructed as a compendium of moral doctrine, the Bible doesn't come off well.

All Christians are called to be perfect, and in that sense all Christian moral doctrine is unrealistic.

But over time she proved her loyalty on questions of moral doctrine, like its ban on married and female priests.

It may stress received religious or moral doctrine, thus generating the Catholic children's literature of Spain or the moral tale of Georgian and early Victorian England.

Hence, most traditional "natural law" moral doctrines--including the belief in a universal, objective morality grounded in human nature--do not contradict legal positivism.

But just as fundamentalist theology posits the absolute authority of the Bible, fundamentalist moral doctrines posit the absolute authority of pastors, teachers, fathers, "civil authority," and so on.

His surprising comments came in a lengthy interview in which he criticized the church for putting dogma before love, and for prioritizing moral doctrines over serving the poor and marginalized.

As Emma Green noted in The Atlantic, for many, progressivism isn't just a set of political beliefs; it's a set of liturgies, rituals and moral doctrines for the secular unchurched.

Olds's celebration of sensuality, her work's unembarrassed candour, is exactly what Robin Robertson, her editor at Cape, admires: "... its direct, robust physicality, its corresponding rejection of rigid religious moral doctrines - the very qualities that enrage her critics".