Her teachings have been helpful in my professional life.
Still, he has noticed that the teachings have a way of cropping up in his life.
Francis said that those teachings have to be presented in a larger context.
Such Calvinistic teachings have no place in the American mind today.
Since then, the "lone wolves" associated with his teachings have become a reality.
Other traditional teachings have been updated to meet contemporary needs, Mr. Syed said.
Seventy students walk out of a Harvard class, claiming "the professor's teachings have driven the inequalities in today's society".
It is distributing millions of booklets in which new recruits explain how Aum teachings have given them supernatural powers.
But Kabbalah Centre teachers say their teachings have little to do with Judaism and need not be restricted to anyone.
Although his teachings have Sufi leanings – like much of Pakistan's Barelwi school of Islam – as an Islamic scholar he is considered part of the Sunni mainstream.
"The teachings have to be seen according to the social ills that he confronted and the political forces that he confronted".
