Sentence examples for received doctrine from inspiring English sources

This, at any rate, was the received doctrine.

What Russia needed was economists, businessmen, lawyers and anyone prepared to question received doctrine.

Through moral fable and direct address to the reader, he undertakes a reinterpretation of human experience based not on received doctrine but rather on perceived reality.

According to received doctrine in scholarship and general intellectual discourse, the prime goal of state policy is national security.

In C. E. Lance & R. J. Vandenberg (Eds.), Statistical and methodological myths and urban legends: Received doctrine, verity, and fable in the organizational and social sciences.

As in the case of the "supreme international crime" in Iraq, the bin Laden assassination is another illustration of the important fact that security is often not a high priority for state action, contrary to received doctrine.

And this pursuit, with its denial of Christian asceticism, enabled people to turn away from a preoccupation with angels and demons and to focus instead on things in this world: to conduct experiments without worrying about infringing on God's jealously guarded secrets, to question authorities and challenge received doctrines, to contemplate without terror the death of the soul.

These maverick views present a serious challenge to the received, absolutist doctrine of identity.