Sentences with phrase «body of doctrine»

This is an inadequate body of doctrine for the long haul of history, but it has served a whole generation remarkably well.

Usually it refers explicitly to, and identifies itself with, a recognized body of doctrine or a system of ideas.

While it has traditionally taken the form of a religion, and has appeared eternally committed to a large body of doctrine, Christianity has been most accurately described as «the faith».

Now, they'd intoned such torrents of truths felt and reasoned That silent night study drowned in sounds of the season, Like Adeste Fideles put to jingle bell rocking, Or a whole body of doctrine stuffed in a small stocking.

The main body of doctrine, particularly of moral doctrine, has been proposed infallibly by the Ordinary Magisterium but never defined.

Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

The authoritarian narrowing of the tradition to, in essence, a body of doctrines to be believed and orders from above to be obeyed, was a decisive factor in desensitizing ordinary Catholics, clerical as well as lay, to the beauty and independent value of their inherited observances — matters over which no authority has or ought to have absolute control.

It's wrong to imagine this body of doctrine to be a complete system like Thomism, but it did provide a stable, coherent basis for thinking about the social question.

(2) In general, the particular implications of the broad principle for particular cases are determined by resorting to the body of doctrine that has developed which gives effect to aspects of that principle in particular types of situations and relationships.

The law relating to patent and latent defects would belong to «the body of doctrine that has developed which gives effect to aspects of that principle in particular types of situations and relationships»: para 93.