Sentences with 'doctrinal'
Example sentences and phrases with the word doctrinal and other words derived from it.
• « Secondly, there was a doctrinal link with the apostle Peter, who was supposed to have been given the symbolic keys of heaven directly from Christ, which in turn were passed on to his successor in Rome (the archbishop of Rome) before he was crucified. »
• « Ali was assassinated by a rebel (unrelated to the struggle for power over the caliphate) in 661, which consolidated the Umayyad claim to power, but not the doctrinal dispute between Shia and Sunni. »
• « Whereas Lutheranism and Calvinism had arisen as protests against the perceived moral and doctrinal failings of the Catholic Church, the English Reformation came about because of the selfish desires of a king. »
• « The hard-line doctrine was distressing to Emperor Charles V, who sincerely hoped that the Church would yield on some of the doctrinal issues and thus win back the Protestants in his lands; he even tried to prevent Pope Paul IV from taking office because he was so intransigent. »