body of doctrine

All the same, a common body of doctrine has now taken shape and won general approval among those who favour the approach.

Christianity, they argued, was not a body of doctrines but an experience.

It is not dogma or even a body of doctrine that we lack.

This body of doctrine does not regard private property and its economic benefits as absolute goods.

But I didn't have a body of doctrine.

Revisionist just war theory is a school of thought, not a body of doctrine.

The Member States also need a common body of doctrine for the use of arms.

"Science," to misquote Wittgenstein, "is not a body of doctrine but an activity."

Anarchism does not offer a fixed body of doctrine from a single particular world view, instead fluxing and flowing as a philosophy.

The word Comintern, on the other hand, suggests merely a tightly-knit organization and a well-defined body of doctrine.

Second, such a hermeneutics was never organized into a body of doctrine like textual hermeneutics.

It forms a body of doctrines.

It is this exploratory characteristic trait of Dummett’s philosophy, rather than any single body of doctrine that made him a philosopher’s philosopher.

Reprimanded by its stern custodian, it explained that it was seeking a body of doctrine.

First Nations traditions have been passed down orally through the generations so there is no body of doctrine or theology to which one may specifically refer.

Freemasonry then, has a system of divinity, a body of doctrine concerning this Great Architect.

The consequence was that a continuous and systematic presentation of any extensive body of doctrine already completed was not to be expected from him.

“Jakobson revealed to me the existence of a body of doctrine that had already been formed within a discipline, linguistics, with which I was unacquainted.

The seniors, under question, discover that they have no body of doctrine, and have never till now dreamt of the need of any.

It is true that the Christians now had a homogenous and extremely virile body of doctrine: the Pauline gospel or kerygma.

It is surely the function of any body of doctrine, whether it pose as religious or scientific, to explain this fact of man's duality.

He was no theologian, neither a traditionalist maintaining the views of the Fathers nor a scholastic systematizing a body of doctrine.

This body of doctrine has been characterized as "laissez-faire constitutionalism", although this has been contested.

And the embarrassed questioner retreats, apologising profusely, wondering why he ever fell into such absurd anxiety about this luminously sensible body of doctrine.

In other words they did not refer to a single coherent church, like that of Rome, with a fixed, codified and definitive body of doctrine and theology.