To assess the success of discussing religious doctrine in clarifying understanding of doctrinal stance and increasing acceptance of evolution, we compared the change in evolution knowledge (KEE), doctrinal understanding (ULSE) and acceptance of evolution (MATE) between treatment and control sections using an independent one-way ANOVA analysis.
The same man who has charged so many politicians with "inciting enmity and hatred through religious and doctrinal differences" unashamedly denounces Virtue as a "tumour" run by "blood-sucking vampires".
And it has certainly served to highlight Stephen's humanist beliefs and values – beliefs which, though widely shared by millions of people around the world, rarely get the same airtime as religious or doctrinal beliefs.
Otto extends this account to provide a theory of religious language — doctrinal claims are, he thinks, an attempt to convey in rational, conceptually articulate terms the content of a "numinous" experience that is itself conceptually inarticulate.
"There's ample evidence in the case that Perich was fired because of her disability and the assertion of her legal rights -- and not for any religious or doctrinal reasons," he said.
Through these activities they provide religious instruction (doctrinal formation), coaching in spirituality for lay people (spiritual formation), character and moral education (human formation), lessons in sanctifying one's work (professional formation), and know-how in evangelizing one's family and workplace (apostolic formation).
That film "Prenom Carmen" was extremely sexy, and his religious anti-doctrinal film about the Virgin Mary, "Je vous salue Marie".
He meant that we are religious, but not doctrinal.
The doctrinal religious mode, as he dubs the first of these aspects, favours frequent but not particularly exciting rites that allow large bodies of teaching to be stored in a person's semantic memory.
