10 sentences with 'doctrine'
Example sentences and phrases with the word doctrine and other words derived from it.
• « From its doctrine were derived principles based on a correct diet, healing through plants, techniques for better breathing and gymnastics that freed the body from blockages. »
• « Although they did not represent a truly unified body of thought, the one common Sophist doctrine was that all human beliefs and customs were only habits of a society, that there were no absolute truths, and that it was therefore vitally important for an educated man to be able to argue both sides of an issue with equal skill and rhetorical ability. »
• « The Sophists had no shared philosophical doctrine other than this idea that truth was relative and that the focus of life should be on individual achievement. »
• « Was Jesus the Messiah? In Jewish doctrine, the messiah was to be a figure who would liberate the Jews from oppression and fulfil the covenant between the Jews and God, delivering the Promised Land for all eternity. »
• « Once the debate over whether non-Jews could become Christians was settled, it was also potentially open to anyone who would listen to the teachings and doctrine of Christianity. »
• « The irony of these struggles over Christian doctrine versus ancient learning was that the issue was decided by the collapse of Rome. »
• « For nearly 1,000 years, the two types of Christianity - later called "Catholic" and "Eastern Orthodox", though both terms speak to the idea of a universal and correct form of Christian doctrine - were sundered by the great political divisions between the Germanic kingdoms in the west and Byzantium itself in the east. »
• « Instead, this period was important in the longer history of institutional Christianity because many popes at least claimed authority over doctrine and organisation - centuries later, popes would look back to the claims of their predecessors as 'proof' that the papacy had always been in charge. »
• « Obviously, having rival popes undermined the papacy's central claim to complete authority over the Church itself and over Christian doctrine in the process (not to mention the occasional insistence by popes that their authority superseded that of kings). »