Sentence examples for rigid doctrine from inspiring English sources

Progress is a flexible concept, not a rigid doctrine.

It may be helpful to the church that his shift of position makes it harder to portray the discussion as one between rigid doctrine and compassionate atheism.

Pope Francis has attacked conservative church leaders for buryig their heads in the sand and hiding behind rigid doctrine after a contentious meeting between bishops.

Often speaking here more as a pastor than as the vicar of Christ, he emphasizes moral sincerity over dogma, an understanding of the complexities of the world and individual experience over rigid doctrine.

PAGE A13 Carter Quits Baptist Group Former President Jimmy Carter is severing ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, saying that parts of its "increasingly rigid" doctrine violate the premises of his faith.

(In 2001 Lord Irvine told fellow peers he saw no need for the law lords to quit Parliament, because "in this country we have never applied a rigid doctrine of the separation of powers because we are pragmatists, not purists").

A1 Breaking With Church Body Former President Jimmy Carter reached "a painful decision" to sever ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, saying parts of its "increasingly rigid" doctrines violated the "basic premises of my Christian faith".

Jimmy Carter, a third-generation Southern Baptist and the first United States president to call himself a born-again Christian, has reached what he calls "a painful decision" to sever ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, saying that parts of its "increasingly rigid" doctrines violate the "basic premises of my Christian faith".

A confirmed atheist, as alienated by rabbinical Judaism as she was by the rigid doctrines of Catholicism, the adult Jacoby faced a difficult bind: she was unwilling to embrace Judaism fully -- that is, to convert or engage in ritual observance -- but she was equally unwilling to surrender all connection to her Jewishness.

A religion with organized – and rigid — doctrines is always static.

They made such demands on the basis of tradition, rigid doctrines, and the authority of those who thought of themselves as firmly aligned with their father, Abraham.