Sentence examples for universal doctrines from inspiring English sources

Ali, empowered by his embrace of black nationalism and the more universal doctrines of Nation of Islam, refused to answer to anything but the name he chose.

Initially organised as the ASDT (Associacão Social Democrata Timorense), the group endorsed "the universal doctrines of socialism", as well as "the right to independence".

Theosophists seek to understand the mysteries of the universe, finding the common roots of all religions to uncover a secret universal doctrine.

Radical monks, led by a notorious chauvinist, Wirathu, from a monastery in the northern city of Mandalay, have abandoned any claims to Buddhism as a universal doctrine of compassion and non-violence.

David C. Lindberg (DMP, Introduction) has noted that Bacon takes Grosseteste's physics of light, a development of Al-Kindi's universal radiation of force, out of its metaphysical background and develops a universal doctrine of physical causation.

Christensen's parables and theories are not necessarily any more persuasive to his students than, say, arguing for Kant's categorical imperative or the Golden Rule -- both of which are universal meta-ethical doctrines.

Saint Gennadius I of Constantinople, (died 471, Constantinople; feast day August 25), Byzantine theologian, biblical exegete, and patriarch, a champion of Christian Orthodoxy who strove for an ecumenical (Greek: "universal") statement of doctrine on the person and work of Christ to reconcile the opposing Alexandrian (Egyptian) and Antiochene (Syrian) theological traditions.

This is process philosophy's doctrine of universal creativity.

Will it be possible to combine strategic withdrawal from key countries and reduced military expenditures with doctrines of universal humanitarian intervention?

For centuries before Vasubandhu, Buddhist philosophers of the Sarvāstivādin tradition had believed in, and argued for, the doctrine of universal momentariness.[24] This view was a Buddhist scholastic interpretation and expression of the Buddha's doctrine that all things in the world of ordinary beings were subject to causes and conditions, and therefore impermanent.

Now when the Fifth General Council of the Christian church condemned the doctrine of universal reconciliation in 553 CE, it did not, strictly speaking, commit the institutional church of that day to a doctrine of everlasting conscious torment in hell.