Sentence examples for single doctrine from inspiring English sources

For instance, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement encompasses all Protestant denominations in a single doctrine.

This is because Brendel does not represent, or obey, a single doctrine, or method, or tendency or idea.

A state committed to blind obedience to a single doctrine will -- necessarily -- suppress free thought and freedom of association, thus destroying civil society.

Yet the president plainly believes that there are so many variables in the present fast-moving circumstances that it is not possible to adopt a single doctrine that fits each case.

Protestants agreed that the Word of God was authoritative in matters of faith and that the Bible had unique status, but they did not agree on all interpretations of the Scripture, nor did they unite in a single doctrine of scriptural authority.

Similarly, the "fact of coercion," understood as the fact that any political order created around a single doctrine would require oppressive use of state power, concerns not the realizability or possibility of a particular ideal, but its feasibility as "a stable and unified order," under the conditions of pluralism (Rawls 1999, 225).

Lefèvre's place on the map of late medieval and Renaissance philosophy is difficult to pinpoint in a single key doctrine or even a single work.

There is no single clear doctrine behind this belief.

It was not until the 4th century that the distinctness of the three and their unity were brought together in a single orthodox doctrine of one essence and three persons.

He has expressed admiration for the foreign policy of the first President Bush and his national-security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, and, on one level, Obama fits their mold of classic realism: wary of moral posturing, he analyzes the world country by country, calibrating American interests accordingly, without trying to impose a single abstract doctrine everywhere.

The institutions of a decent society may be organized around a single comprehensive doctrine, such as a dominant religion.