But while members of the Christian right set aside doctrinal differences to rally around a shared cultural agenda, the left fell victim to internal identity politics and theological disputes.
Thanks to such generous concessions of political power by the Congress, Muslim leaders, including Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876 1949), agreed to set aside doctrinal differences and work with the Congress toward the attainment of national freedom from British rule.
Francis has seemed to ask, Can't we talk about something else? Can't we get back to the central mission of the Gospel, and set aside doctrinal differences?
Climate change presents an opportunity for diverse religious traditions to set aside doctrinal differences to work together on an issue with indisputable moral content and global importance, potentially establishing the foundation for future inter-religious efforts on intractable problems.
The movement's ideologues have meanwhile worked to nurture an outlook of flexibility toward people of differing political, ethnic, and sectarian backgrounds whose expertise or resources may be of value, enabling the leadership of the organization to set aside doctrinal purity for expediency's sake when necessary.
This set up a doctrinal clash between Kenney, an attack aviator, and Walker, the bomber advocate.
The ferment of those years also produced Cranmer's Forty-two Articles (1553), a set of doctrinal formulas defining the dogmatic position of the Church of England on current religious controversies.
We gather together not because we agree on a set of doctrinal statements, but because we are a group of graduate students attempting to seek and know God during our time at Stanford.
This means my Christianity is defined by values, spiritual practices, and faith rather than belief in a specific set of doctrinal agreements.
Not faith in a particular set of doctrinal or creedal statements, but faith in the original sense of the word--as relational trust.
