Examples of doctrine in the following topics:
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- The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War.
- More generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations threatened by Soviet communism.
- The Truman Doctrine underpinned American Cold War policy in Europe and around the world.
- Patterson, "The Truman Doctrine was a highly publicized commitment of a sort the administration had not previously undertaken.
- The Truman Doctrine became a metaphor for emergency aid to keep a nation from communist influence.
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- He also held to the Catholic doctrine of free will, which some Reformers rejected in favor of the doctrine of predestination.
- His revolt against certain forms of Christian monasticism and scholasticism was not based on doubts about the truth of doctrine, nor from hostility to the organization of the Church itself, nor from rejection of celibacy or monastical lifestyles.
- He always intended to remain faithful to Catholic doctrine, and therefore was convinced he could criticize frankly virtually everyone and everything.
- In Praise of Folly starts off with Folly praising herself, after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church—to which Erasmus was ever faithful—and the folly of pedants.
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- Calvinism is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and is characterized by the doctrine of predestination in the salvation of souls.
- Each of these theologians also understood salvation to be by grace alone, and affirmed a doctrine of particular election (the teaching that some people are chosen by God for salvation).
- The doctrine of justification by faith alone was a direct inheritance from Luther.
- The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous knowledge of theology, and covered a broad range of theological topics, from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by faith alone and Christian liberty.
- The doctrine holds that this purposeful influence of God's Holy Spirit cannot be resisted.
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- Socrates also questioned the Sophistic doctrine that arete (virtue) can be taught.
- Much of what is known about Plato's doctrines is derived from what Aristotle reports about them, and many of Plato's political doctrines are derived from Aristotle's works, The Republic, the Laws, and the Statesman.
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- Luther began by criticizing the selling of indulgences, insisting that the pope had no authority over purgatory and that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the gospel.
- The Protestant position, however, would come to incorporate doctrinal changes such as sola scriptura (by the scripture alone) and sola fide (by faith alone).
- New thinking favored the notion that no religious doctrine can be supported by philosophical arguments, eroding the old alliance between reason and faith of the medieval period laid out by Thomas Aquinas.
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- In it, Hobbes set out his doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate governments and creating an objective science of morality.
- There is no doctrine of separation of powers in Hobbes's discussion.
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- Professor Wrightson examines the various stages of the reformation in England, beginning with the legislative, as opposed to doctrinal, reformation begun by Henry VIII in a quest to settle the Tudor succession.
- The role played by various personalities at Henry's court, and the manner in which the King's own preferences shaped the doctrines of the Church of England, are considered.
- Doctrinal change, in line with continental Protestant developments, accelerated under Edward VI, but was reversed by Mary I.
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- In the mid-18th century, Europe witnessed an explosion of philosophic and scientific activity that challenged traditional doctrines and dogmas.
- The philosophic movement was led by Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who argued for a society based upon reason rather than faith and Catholic doctrine, for a new civil order based on natural law, and for science based on experiments and observation.
- While the Enlightenment cannot be pigeonholed into a specific doctrine or set of dogmas, science came to play a leading role in Enlightenment discourse and thought.
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- Furthermore, the papacy had since 727 been in conflict with Irene's predecessors in Constantinople over a number of issues, chiefly the continued Byzantine adherence to the doctrine of iconoclasm, the destruction of Christian images.
- And "because the Byzantines had proved so unsatisfactory from every point of view—political, military and doctrinal—he would select a westerner: the one man who by his wisdom and statesmanship and the vastness of his dominions stood out head and shoulders above his contemporaries."