Sentence examples for unity of beliefs from inspiring English sources

With the creation of the creed, a precedent was established for subsequent local and regional councils of Bishops (Synods) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy the intent being to define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christendom.

It was a symptom of a striking feature of that period: the relative homogeneity of the people who ran America's foreign policy, headed its foundations and cultural institutions, and published its leading newspapers, and the relative unity of their beliefs.

Leaders of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, mostly rich merchants with strong ties to England, were sympathetic to evangelicalism; but many poorer country Friends left the meeting, no longer feeling a unity with the beliefs of the Philadelphia ministers and elders or with the way they exercised their authority.

All these thinkers have a common thread--a nameless devotion to the Supreme, message of unity and belief in the equality among humankind.

Yet it has also brought billions of people together forging a sense of shared belief and unity of purpose across wide racial and geographical divides.

It is not surprising that the found landscape plays a central role in Chinese art, which, heavily influenced by Taoist beliefs, proclaims the unity of all nature.

Parallelism, the interpretation of scripture by means of scripture, is a corollary of the belief in the unity of scripture.

His Catholicism, says Fergusson, was "down-to-earth, unjudgmental and encompassing a profound belief in the unity of creation".