In the year 1407 he began publicly to oppose and preach against the errors in doctrine and the corruption then reigning in the church.
There is, for instance, the doctrineof purification by means of putrefaction, this process being likened to that of the resurrection of man.
Two of these theories have already been noted, but the doctrine of effluvia admittedly applied only to a certain class of amulets, and, I think, need not be seriously considered.
In the first place, something must be said concerning what is called the Doctrine of Emanations, a theory of prime importance in Neo-Platonic and Kabalistic ontology.
The phoenix was frequently used to illustrate thedoctrine of the immortality of the soul (e.
And in its final form the doctrineof principles is incapable of a sexual interpretation.
English institutions are largely based on the doctrine of individual liberty, and those statutes which establish or safeguard individual rights are not unjustly regarded as the "bulwarks of the Constitution.
There is something horrible and terrifying in the doctrine so often preached, reiterated of course by speaker after speaker at the "Neglect of Science" meeting, that science is to be preferred because of its utility.
The popular doctrine of the early Victorian era, that the welfare of the community could best be secured by allowing every man to seek his own interests in the way chosen by himself, has been greatly modified or wholly abandoned.
They did not force extreme Shia doctrine upon the Egyptians.
Froude never accepted the doctrine that history should be treated as a science; rather he claimed that the historian should concern himself with the dramatic aspect of the period about which he writes.
There was a general conviction among them that Protestants would all flinch at the last; that they had no "doctrine that would abide the fire.
The doctrine of a future life, improved by every additional circumstance which could give weight and efficacy to that important theory.
Footnote 112: This was an absurd and cruel doctrine of the English lawyers of the time, who had begun to disbelieve in witchcraft, and were yet willing to justify the execution of witches.
Amongst those who will be objecting against the doctrine I lay down, may peradventure appear a sort of men who have remembered so and so; and value themselves upon their experience.
And from this point of view one may discern the significance of that doctrine of humility which belongs equally to Socratic thinking and Christian believing.
Without having ever finally committed himself to a definite scheme of tariff reform, he preached everywhere the doctrine of consideration.
But such a doctrine would of course be inconsistent with the maintenance of arbitrary power by the government; and hence governments will not allow the plea, although they will not confess their true reasons for disallowing it.
This doctrine of Mansfield is the doctrine of all who deny the right of juries to judge of the law, although all may not choose to express it in so blunt and unambiguous terms.
The constitutions of New Hampshire and Tennessee also declare that "The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
But the doctrineevidently admits of no other interpretation or defence.
But there is still another doctrine that extensively, and perhaps most generally, prevails in practice, although judges are not agreed in regard to its soundness.
But thedoctrine of Mansfield is, that the body of the people, from whom jurors are taken, are responsible to a law, which it is agreed they cannot understand.
Such a doctrine is only another form of thedoctrine that might makes right.
The National Grange is the legislative body of the order, and has full authority in all matters of doctrine and practice.
How injurious is the doctrine of the legitimate descent of wisdom!
We can readily anticipate the surprise the public must have felt at the nonsensical and unjust doctrine here broached by the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The clergy now stood forward in their pulpits, and preached, not the word of God, but that doctrine which led the nearest way to promotion, while many other needy and avaricious men wrote in favour of an arbitrary government.
This doctrine brought a ray of light, a promise, to the country people who had suffered so much since the later Han period of the second century A.
Thus the revolutionary Buddhist doctrine of retribution became a reactionary doctrine that was of great service to the gentry.
Lao Tz[)u] seems to have thought that this doctrine could be applied to the life of the state.
Hung had heard of Christianity from missionaries (1837), and he mixed up Christian ideas with those of ancient China and proclaimed to his followers a doctrine that promised the Kingdom of God on earth.
Among these they found widespread acceptance, not of their profound philosophic ideas, but of their doctrine of the after life.
In Japan, however, Wang's doctrine gained many followers, because it admirably served the dictatorial state system which had developed in that country.
Dreadful is the picture, which in books we sometimes find, of children discussing the doctrines of Christianity, and even teaching their seniors the boundaries and distinctions between doctrine and doctrine.
And this may especially be expected if the doctrineof "care not whether slavery be voted down or voted up" shall gain upon the public mind sufficiently to give promise that such a decision can be maintained when made.
Much have I pondered upon the relation of these other selves to me, and of the relation of the total experience to the modern doctrine of evolution.
They emerged howling new doctrine, gathering crowds about them, forming new sects that split on doctrine and formed more sects.
A new preacher and a new doctrinecome to Jerusalem.
He went to New London, Canada West, where he has charge of a Scotch congregation of religious votaries to that ancient doctrine of salvation.
Any other doctrine than this, is downright delusion, unworthy of a free people, and only intended for slaves.
Others ridiculed this doctrine of State employment: It was all very fine, but where was the money to come from?
It never occurred to what he called his mind, that this doctrine is an insult to the Founder of Christianity.
This school of education or training in knowledge(399) was their primary thought: the committing of their doctrine to writing was both subsequent and secondary.
Plato, and his doctrine that no one is willingly wicked.
They were utterly powerless to transfer their doctrine into any number of human hearts living in accordance therein.
But the same conception as to the manner of communicating a doctrine lay in his mind as in that of Pythagoras.
And if anyone chose to come to me, I communicated to him thedoctrine of truth.
Thus in the settlement of the Canon authority as well as tradition intervened; an authority which felt itself in secure possession of the same Holy Spirit who had inspired the Apostles, and of the same doctrine which they had taught.
As to the generation(363) of the doctrine of Ideas, Aristotle states it as the common product of the doctrine of Heracleitus that everything which meets the senses is subject to change and flux, and of the Socratic view of the conception.
Forgiveness of sins, doctrine of, guarded by triple succession of teaching, of men, and of sacraments, 162.
The transubstantiation doctrine seemed to him full of evil, from its tendency to lead men to overvalue what was sensuous and transitory.
He rejected with indignation the miraculous stories told to confirm the doctrine of transubstantiation.
He further attempted to build up a symbolism of numbers with the view of elaborating the doctrine of the Trinity, and explaining the meaning of unity, plurality and likeness.
There never was, I fancy, a country in which the doctrine of 'might is right' formed more completely the whole and sole law and custom of the land than it does in Bhutan.
He did not conceal this conviction from his scholars and friends, and through them the report spread widely that he denied the common doctrine respecting the eucharist.
It shows a clear discernment of the dangers of the ascetic life, and a deep insight into the significance of the Augustinian doctrine of grace.
Reason and Scripture seemed to him the only grounds on which a true doctrine of the Lord's supper could be rested.
Probably referring to an article on Scrope's "Geology of Central France," in which he shows that he fully accepted the Huttonian doctrine of interpreting the geology of past ages by reference to the causes still at work.
A government of the people, for the people, and by the people had come into existence which challenged the doctrine that the sovereign ruled by right divine.
After a hundred years the early enthusiasm of the Puritan church had subsided, and though its doctrine had changed but slightly, a marked change in emphasis had taken place.
When Tom Paine issued his pamphlet Common Sense, "the first open and unqualified argument in championship of the doctrine of American Independence," he found a receptive audience.
In 1734 at Northampton, Edwards preached a series of sermons in which he defended the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
This wilful teasty lord stuck not to say That Wickliffe was a knave, a schismatic, His doctrine devilish and heretical, And what soe'er he was maintained the same, Was traitor both to God and to his country.
Lord Powesse detracted from the power of Rome, Affirming Wickliffe's doctrine to be true, And Rome's erroneous.
It was equally contrary to a third doctrine which was brought before the convention.
This was a mild statement of the extreme Southern doctrine that slaves were property, so recognized by the Constitution, and that a slaveholder had the right to take his slaves anywhere but into a State where slavery was forbidden.
He was too good a politician to yield, even if there had been no other reason to stand firm, but continued to defend the only doctrine on which there was the slightest chance of beating the Republicans in the approaching election.
That was the barest form of the doctrine which its opponents in derision named "squatter sovereignty.
That was a direct challenge to Douglas and his whole plan with slavery, and throughout the debate, at every meeting, the doctrineof the divided house was attacked and defended.
The doctrine of Cass seemed to accord best with that democratic theory of the government which Douglas had always professed.
Cass, though his authorship of the doctrine is disputed, was at first held responsible for it, and he advocated it with great ability.
It seemed to me as if the evangelist's face had relaxed a little, and that beneath this casing of doctrine a heart might be beating.
And is it possible to be a Christian so long as the origin of man is Christianized, which is to say, befouled, by the doctrine of the immaculata conceptio?
These are the two physiological realities upon and out of which the doctrine of salvation has sprung.
And at once there sprang from the Gospels the most contemptible of all unfulfillable promises, the shameless doctrine of personal immortality.
Such a doctrine cannot contradict: it doesn't know that other doctrines exist, or can exist, and is wholly incapable of imagining anything opposed to it.
The President will resent the nosing, call German attention to our Monroe Doctrine as the line fence between the hemispheres, and then mount guard over the sacred rails of that venerated barrier with a gun.
He held to the doctrine that no one, not a fool, would talk beyond what was necessary to carry his projects to success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doctrine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
