This doctrine was useful in the Islamic world outside the Middle East where the Muslims encountered environments and challenges they had been unfamiliar with in Arabia.
It is unfortunate that many later commentators have been misled into taking Cajetan's account of analogy as a typical one, and, even more unfortunately, as a useful summary of the doctrines of Aquinas.
Believers who want to advocate a particular position can cherry-pick whatever scriptural passage or snippet of doctrine they find useful for making their point.
The book was placed on the reading list by Captain John F. Schmitt, author of FMFM-1 (Fleet Marine Fighting Manual, on maneuver doctrine) for "provid[ing] useful allegories to explain why militaries do what they do in a particularly effective shorthand way".
That is a doctrine with us".
Looking at these different doctrines, it might be useful to point out that many of the most heretical ideas of Mormonism actually originated with other Christian denominations before they became part of Mormonism.
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But that old-fashioned value system, Cowley argued, shifted to a consumption ethic of spending and leisure, and the bohemian doctrine, it turned out, "proved quite useful" to the new mainstream ethic.
In a recent paper Tillemans (2011) draws a useful distinction between two versions of the apoha doctrine: the top-down approach and the bottom-up approach.
