The overall distribution of the elements, which were themselves eternal and unchangeable, was controlled by "love and strife", whose operations are curiously reminiscent of some doctrines of modern thermodynamics, in a grand cyclically dynamic universe.[5] The purest form of emergentism was propounded by the famed atomist Democritus (c.
While struggling to establish a practice, he wrote a series of articles for the newspapers in which he controverted some of the doctrines in Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791).
But then, he started teaching some doctrines that struck other Christians in Rome as being a little bit off.
Lollard, in late medieval England, a follower, after about 1382, of John Wycliffe, a University of Oxford philosopher and theologian whose unorthodox religious and social doctrines in some ways anticipated those of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.
Rebutting the popular misconception that the critic "writes because he is possessed by a passion to advance enlightenment, to put down error and wrong, to disseminate some specific doctrine" – in short, to make arguments – he proposed a much more basic impulse.
Some of the anti-naturalist doctrines in ethics developed theses that were analogous to the religious doctrine of "original sin".
Abu l-Barakat Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi, working in Baghdad around 1150, in his Book about the Point of View (Kitab al-mu'tabar) — mostly based upon Avicenna's philosophy and possibly written before the author's conversion to Islam – followed in some cases al-Razi's doctrines, in particular his idea of two different ideas of time, "eternal time" and "created one" (see Pines 1979, 151 153).
See his "Medieval Doctrines in Renaissance Garb?: Some Jewish and Arabic Sources of Leone Ebreo's Doctrines," in Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century, ed.
The grandfather of dualist doctrines in Europe is Manichaeanism, which flourished in the early Christian era.
In his poetry al-ʿĀmilī expounded complex mystical doctrines in simple and unadorned verse.
