For every 1-point increase in understanding of doctrine (on an 18-point scale), the MATE increased 1.84 points (on a 120-point scale).
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.
To assess the success of discussing religious doctrine in clarifying understanding of doctrinal stance and increasing acceptance of evolution, we compared the change in evolution knowledge (KEE), doctrinal understanding (ULSE) and acceptance of evolution (MATE) between treatment and control sections using an independent one-way ANOVA analysis.
A true understanding of its doctrines did not come until the time of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi).
He built a number of stupas (commemorative burial mounds) and monasteries and erected pillars on which he ordered inscribed his understanding of religious doctrines.
Between the 4th and 6th centuries, Chinese Buddhists adapted fables from Buddhist India as a way to further the understanding of religious doctrines.
We administered surveys measuring conceptual understanding, religiosity, understanding of religious doctrines, and student acceptance of evolutionary theory among LDS students.
Before publishing his major edition of Seneca's philosophical writings in the year before his death, he wrote two theoretical treatises on Stoicism, which provided the philosophical foundation for a new interpretation of Seneca and a new understanding of Stoic doctrines.
But this understanding of Xenophanes' doctrines seems inconsistent with his assertion that "god shakes all things" (B25) that "all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end" (B27), and that "all things which come into being and grow, are earth and water" (B29).
For these reasons, "we the people" who elect lawmakers to Congress should have at least a basic understanding of legal doctrines -- of stare decisis (precedent), of the "common law," of constitutional law, of the basic elements of criminal law (actus reus, mens rea, etc).
