Finally, there is the "syncretist," who is "driven to reconcile opposing doctrines" in the manner of Jürgen Habermas.
Two-level utilitarianism is virtually a synthesis of the opposing doctrines of act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism.
His objection to ideology appears to be both visceral and intellectual, and in advocating what might be called a return from a faith-based foreign policy to a reality-based approach, his greatest challenge in running against Bush without an opposing doctrine is to make the case for being nonideological without seeming unprincipled.
Adams also opposed the doctrine of nullification which would allow states to ignore federal laws they deemed unconstitutional being advocated by the man who had been his Vice-President, John C. Calhoun.
Ibn Ḥanbal's unflinching spirit was beginning to have its effect upon the Caliph; but the latter's advisers warned that if he desisted from punishing him, he would be accused of having opposed the doctrine of his predecessor al-Maʾmūn, and the victory of Ibn Ḥanbal would have dire consequences on the reign of the caliphs.
On Catholicism If there are those who charge us with being opposed to the doctrines and theology of the Catholic church, we plead guilty.
("As a Christian, I am completely opposed to the doctrines of Mormonism... ..) The old guard of the religious right is terrified that if Rudy Giuliani gets the nomination people will conclude that the evangelical leaders aren't all that powerful after all or — horror of horrors — that the evangelical rank and file are not obsessed with abortion and homosexuality to the exclusion of everything else.
This led him to reconsider his position on religion previously an agnostic, his interest in Christianity was renewed, and having read the Bible, the works of the theologian William Paley as well as more skeptical works such as Hume's On Miracles, he came to acknowledge the "moral truth" of the gospels, while remaining opposed to the doctrines of orthodox Christianity.
"To say you're anti-Islam, as long as you're not anti-Muslim, someone can oppose the doctrine of Islam and that's fine".
