Sentence examples for understanding of the doctrine from inspiring English sources

The council's decision also reflected an anti-Protestant bias and for the next several centuries drew the lines for opposition between Roman Catholics and Protestants in their understanding of the doctrine.

This article would be incomplete without a consideration of some of the objections against panpsychism, but it will also serve to sharpen our understanding of the doctrine to consider possible replies available to the panpsychist.

Perhaps the most detailed attempt to support a two-tier understanding of the doctrine of not-self comes from Kamaleswar Bhattacharya (1973, 64 and passim), who forcibly argued that the denial of self in Buddhism most often targets common views such as those that associate the self with the psycho-physical aggregates, and not the metaphysical notion of self.

The more educated respondents had better understanding of the doctrine and practice of informed consent policy.

The understanding of this doctrine and its implications in more depth depends, probably more than any other doctrine, on how one construes other central elements of Spinoza's theory of attributes (e.g. the number of attributes).

As a result, the approaches to creation and conservation that treat them as metaphysical in nature have an initial advantage, at least, over approaches that begin by insisting that theological understandings of the doctrines involve empirical predictions that can be confirmed or disconfirmed by our best science.

She starts by reading aloud from "The Divine Plan" by Geoffrey A. Barborka, written, as the book's frontispiece explains, "expressly for the purpose of those who wish to read and gain a deeper understanding of 'The Secret Doctrine,' " a book by Madame Blavatsky published in 1888.

According to Anthony's understanding of Catholic doctrine, the church would consider a menage a trois a violation of the vows of matrimony.

One of the most famous of Ashoka's many pillars (on which he had engraved his edicts and his understanding of religious doctrine) stands at the southeast corner of the temple.

Alcuin introduced the methods of English learning into the Frankish schools, systematized the curriculum, raised the standards of scholarship, and encouraged the study of liberal arts for the better understanding of spiritual doctrine.

"This conclusion is consistent with the classic understanding of the separation of powers doctrine -- that the legislative power is the power to enact statues, the executive power is the power to execute or enforce statutes, and the judicial power is the power to interpret statutes and to determine their constitutionality," Chief Justice George wrote.