Sentence examples for various doctrines from inspiring English sources

Erasmus was indisputably aware of the venality of many Catholic prelates, including popes, and was even enraged by various doctrines and biblical interpretations trumpeted from Catholic pulpits.

By reference to this testability criterion of empirical significance, Carnap and other logical empiricists rejected various doctrines of speculative metaphysics and of theology, not as being false but as making no significant assertions at all.

In the sphere of abstract thought, eclecticism is open to the objection that insofar as each system is supposed to be a whole of which its various doctrines are integral parts, the arbitrary juxtaposition of doctrines from different systems risks a fundamental incoherence.

'Positivist' is a term that was usually applied by opponents of various doctrines.

This identification between Dainichi and hosshin held many implications for Kûkai, which became worked out in his various doctrines.

2), this article considers various doctrines in greater detail by way of discussing standard criticisms with the appropriate distinctions in mind (in sect. 3).

Past American presidents have proclaimed various guiding "doctrines": the Truman doctrine committed America to opposing the spread of communism; the Carter doctrine promised that America would defend its interests in the oil states; the Reagan doctrine was the Truman doctrine, with a new willingness to back anti-communist guerrillas added on.

This doctrine represents an eclectic combination of various earlier doctrines, including the Platonic theory of Forms or ideai, Dionysius' discussion of the divine names, and Augustine's revival of the Stoic notion of eternal reasons (rationes aeternae).

The similarities between these and various trinitarian doctrines even led some medieval Jews to make the anachronistic claim that the trinitarian doctrine was based on a misunderstanding of the kabbalistic traditions (Lasker 2007, 75).

Among the various specific doctrines Hume was especially concerned to refute was that of (libertarian) free will — a doctrine that most prominent Christian moralists (e.g., Clarke, Butler, and many of Hume's early critics, including William Warburton, Thomas Reid and James Beattie) maintained was essential to both religion and morality.

Civil suits must, moreover, overcome various legal doctrines limiting the liability of police officers and their employers.