Sentence examples for on doctrinal from inspiring English sources

Unlike the established Church of England, where an all-embracing tolerance of many religious styles was seen as a virtue, the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland puts great emphasis on doctrinal purity and obedience of one's conscience.

At least on doctrinal matters, he will have no harsh words to recant.

Although these Reformers differed on doctrinal matters, they shared a number of views.

Although Cajetan at first dealt kindly with him, they could not agree on doctrinal matters.

While he gives no ground on doctrinal issues, he also makes it clear that weakness is human.

Islam lays great stress on doctrinal stability that is focussed in the Qurʾān, the Sunnah (custom or tradition), and the consensus (ijmāʿ) of its jurists (ʿulamāʾ).

To criticize past popes on basic doctrinal matters is to question the doctrine of papal infallibility.

There is also overwhelming evidence for continual discussions in the school on the right interpretation of Plato or on certain doctrinal points (such as the transcendence of the One, or the question whether the soul wholly descended from the intelligible world).

Again, he normally proceeded chapter by chapter through Aristotle's text, keeping "literal" comments on philological questions and obscure phrases separate from notae on literary, doctrinal, or methodological issues raised in the work.

The debate with Brahmanical schools on specific doctrinal questions naturally moved to long and involved discussions on issues of scriptural authority, such as the Mīmāṃsaka school's justification of the Vedas as being eternal, uncreated by humans (apauruṣeya) and hence authoritative because free from any human influence.

He is an original and independent mind, and his writings have never seemed to be constructed on a doctrinal foundation.