Sentence examples for teaching doctrine from inspiring English sources

Applewhite and Nettles ceased having public meetings in April 1975, and spent little time teaching doctrine to their converts.

What the LDS Church seems to be doing in trying to reach newcomers in many ways reverses traditional conversion methods, where the emphasis is on teaching doctrine first.

Beware: "Biblical prophecy is not for personal interpretation (not for just you)." for it's purpose, ie: "all scripture is good for reproof, teaching, doctrine".

When finding scripture, realize that the entire Bible may be used by Christians (for study, teaching, doctrine and correction of misunderstandings) while only the Tanakh (in the Old Testament) is used as scripture by the Jewish.

His wife, Jane, is the daughter of a missionary bishop in India and she teaches doctrine and modern church history at Trinity College in Bristol.

Such religions therefore teach doctrines of a resurrection of the dead body and its reunion with the soul, preparatory to ultimate salvation or damnation.

Its traditional founder, Basava, taught doctrines and practices of surprising unorthodoxy: he opposed all forms of image worship and accepted only the lingam of Shiva as a sacred symbol.

Irenaeus, the orthodox Bishop of Lyons and one of the leading crusaders against the Gnostics, declared that, while certain heretics "boast that they possess more gospels than there really are," no Church leader may, "however highly gifted he may be in matters of eloquence, teach doctrines different from these".

Second, the attempt of creationists and intelligent designers to erode the constitutional seption between church and state by making public schools teach doctrines meant to buttress religious belief does Christianity no good.

The importance of theology, understood as teaching or "doctrine", has been defended on the basis that an understanding of doctrine is necessary to respond intelligently to questions from others, to promote spiritual health, and to draw the believer closer to God.

The money will thus pay for eligible students' instruction not only in secular subjects but in religion as well, in schools that can fairly be characterized as founded to teach religious doctrine and to imbue teaching in all subjects with a religious dimension.