Little wonder that there was a clash, in temperament as much as doctrine, between the two.
Though he takes great pleasure in mocking the old sectarian disputes, he holds fast to much P.A.W. doctrine, including the importance of baptism in Jesus' name.
Strossen's view follows from a strongly libertarian reading of the First Amendment and is pretty much official doctrine in the United States.
Like most Anglo-Catholics, he will have been tempted on occasion to become either a Roman Catholic or Orthodox, with their much stronger doctrine of the church.
It runs counter to much Marian doctrine and many of the beliefs of the Roman Catholic church, not least the power of Mary to intercede on our behalf.
St Paul, the architect of so much Christian doctrine, had quite a few things to say on the subject in his first letter to the church at Corinth.
Much Buddhist doctrine is based on the fact of suffering; its reality, cause, and means of suppression formed the subject of the Buddha's first sermon (see Four Noble Truths).
The civilized Frenchmen bring fine food and good manners as much as doctrine, and the saintly Latour goes about his duties gently but with a determination of spirit that is forcibly embodied by his more pragmatic friend, the Father Valliant.
Instead of championing religion as the blanket solution to our failing moral standing, we should instead be intent on fostering a new code that encourages positive morality and altruistic behavior without the cultural, historical, tribal, sexist and racial baggage and bias that define so much religious doctrine.
Although Henry retained much Catholic doctrine, especially transubstantiation, and ecclesiastical organization, he did introduce important changes, including the suppression of the monasteries, the introduction of the Bible in the vernacular in the parish churches, and permission to the clergy to marry, though this last reform was later revoked.
