Doctrine
Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina) is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. The Greek analogue is the etymology of catechism.
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Some articles on doctrine:
... Concerning the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he has said that if corrections took place by peers, if there were a functioning process of ...
... The doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary expresses the Virgin Mary's "real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to Jesus the Son of God made Man" ... According to the doctrine, Mary was ever-virgin (Ancient Greek ἀειπαρθένος aeiparthenos) for the whole of her life, making Jesus her only biological son, whose conception and birth are held to be ... By the fourth century, the doctrine had been widely supported by the Church Fathers, and by the seventh century it had been affirmed in a number of ecumenical councils ...
... title arose at the intersection of three common law doctrines articulated by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council the Act of State doctrine, Doctrine of Continuity, and the ... The Act of State doctrine held that the Crown could confiscate or extinguish real or personal property rights in the process of conquering, without scrutiny from any British court, but could not ... The Doctrine of Continuity presumed that the Crown did not intend to extinguish private property upon acquiring sovereignty, and thus that pre-existing interests were enforceable ...
... Some writers see the doctrine of FNC as having developed from an earlier doctrine of forum non competens ("non-competent forum") ... The doctrine of FNC originated in the United States in Willendson v Forsoket 29 Fed Cas 1283 (DC Pa 1801) (No 17,682) where a federal district court in ...
... According to some scholars, the Buddha nature discussed in some Mahāyāna sūtras does not represent a substantial self (ātman) rather, it is a positive language and expression of emptiness (śūnyatā) and represents the potentiality to realize Buddhahood through Buddhist practices ... It is the "true self" in representing the innate aspect of the individual that makes actualizing the ultimate personality possible ...
Famous quotes containing the word doctrine:
“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place ‘mong Republicans and Christians.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)
“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let’s all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
—Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)