Some believe that Hippolytus ' account is of a later, more developed form of Simonianism, and that the original doctrines of the group were simpler, close to the account given by Justin Martyr and Irenaeus ( this account however is also included in Hippolytus ' work ).

The Reformation began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church, by priests who opposed what they perceived as false doctrines and ecclesiastic malpractice — especially the teaching and the sale of indulgences or the abuses thereof, and simony, the selling and buying of clerical offices — that the reformers saw as evidence of the systemic corruption of the Church's Roman hierarchy, which included the Pope.

18th and 19th century military tactics included the introduction of tactical doctrines employing a bayonet fixed on the individual infantryman's musket, used in concert with massed troop formations.

Another major source of information we have of Paul of Samosata comes from Eusebius of Caesarea, who described some of the doctrines and practices Paul displayed openly, which included:

The Jewish authorities in Poland excommunicated Frank and his followers due to his heretical doctrines that included deification of himself as a part of a trinity and other controversial concepts such as " purification through transgression ".

More generally, this philosophical syncretism was set out at the expense of some of the doctrines included within it, and it is possible that Steuco ’ s critical faculties were not up to the task he had set himself.

The well-known Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, composed sometime around the 4th century CE, is sometimes included in this group, although it is somewhat syncretic in nature, combining pure Yogācāra doctrines with those of the tathāgatagarbha system and was unknown or ignored by the progenitors of the Yogācāra system.

The hearings included exhaustive questioning into the continuation of plural marriage within the state of Utah and the LDS Church, and questions on church teachings, doctrines and history.

The original curriculum was a two-week summer program that included activities such as " hiking, camping, training in handling of firearms, archery, tennis, white water rafting and other healthy outdoor activities " as well as instruction on " the goals and doctrines of Creativity and how they could best serve their own race in various capacities of leadership.

He and several followers prayed about the issue, and Joseph recorded a series of revelations, which included a description of several real spiritual gifts, a statement that only Joseph Smith, as the Prophet, could receive new doctrines and commandments for the Church, and a warning that not all supernatural experiences come from God.

Besides opposing at all points the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism, Episcopius protested against the tendency of Calvinists to lay so much stress on abstract dogma, and argued that Christianity was practical rather than theoretical — not so much a system of intellectual belief as a moral power and that an orthodox faith did not necessarily imply the knowledge of and assent to a system of doctrine which included the whole range of Christian truth, but only the knowledge and acceptance of so much of Christianity as was necessary to effect a real change on the heart and life.

" Vehicles for this propaganda about the " doctrines of Lenin and Trotzky " included newspapers, magazines, and " so-called ' negro betterment ' organizations.

His doctrines are said to have included:

This integration of doctrine began for Torrance with the Nicene homoousion ( the fact that the eternal Son was and is one in being with the Father and Spirit in eternity and with us by virtue of the incarnation ), and included the doctrines of the Trinity, Creation, Incarnation, Atonement, Eschatology, Pneumatology, the Church and the Sacraments as well as a theology of ordained Ministry.

According to Cicero, Nigidius tried with some success to revive the doctrines of Pythagoreanism, which would have included mathematics, astronomy and astrology, and arcana of the magical tradition.

Reference to Oriental monks must here be limited to those who have left a mark upon ecclesiastical literature: Leontius of Byzantium ( d. 543 ), author of a treatise against the Nestorians and Eutychians ; St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, one of the most vigorous adversaries of the Monothelite heresy ( P. G., LXXXVII, 3147-4014 ); St. Maximus the Confessor, Abbot of Chrysopolis ( d. 662 ), the most brilliant representative of Byzantine monasticism in the seventh century ; in his writings and letters St. Maximus steadily combated the partisans of the erroneous doctrines of Monothelitism ( ibid., XC and XCI ); St. John Damascene, who may perhaps be included among the Basilians ; St Theodore the Studite ( d. 829 ), the defender of the veneration of sacred images ; his works include theological, ascetic, hagiographical, liturgical, and historical writings ( P. G., XCIX ).

The secession was led by Gijsbert Haan and other orthodox ministers of the " northern " or DeCocksian Groninger tradition of the Afscheiding Issues included the perceived liberalization of the church in areas such as the use of hymns instead of only Psalms, offering communion to non-Reformed people, neglecting doctrines such as predestination.

Earning a number of degrees, one included a study of Methodist doctrines, entitling him to become a certified minister.

Through the Internet, a movement began to develop in opposition to the doctrines of neoliberalism which were widely manifested in the 1990s when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) proposed liberalisation of cross-border investment and trade restrictions through its Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ).

In the following year he went to Germany to be present as papal nuncio at the coronation of Emperor Charles V, and was also present at the Diet of Worms, where he headed the opposition to Martin Luther, advocating the most extreme measures to repress the doctrines of the reformer.

The materialist view is perhaps best understood in its opposition to the doctrines of immaterial substance applied to the mind historically, famously by René Descartes.

His reign saw an extended period of internal peace, although the finances stagnated following failed mercantilist doctrines pursued by the Hat administration ended only in the 1765 – 66 parliament, where the Cap opposition overtook the government and enacted reforms towards greater economic liberalism as well as a Freedom of Press Act almost unique at the time for its curtailing of all censorship, retaining punitive measures only for libeling the monarch or the Lutheran state church.

His principal works were De Regno et Regali Potestate ( 1600 ), a strenuous defence of the rights of kings, in which he refutes the doctrines of those he coins monarchomachs: George Buchanan, “ Junius Brutus ” ( Hubert Languet or Philippe de Mornay ) and Jean Boucher ; and De Potestate Papae ( 1609 ), in opposition to the usurpation of temporal powers by the pope, which called forth the celebrated reply of Cardinal Bellarmine ; also commentaries on some of the titles of the Pandects.

French doctrines mainly relies in opposition to German Geopolitik and rejects the idea of a fixed geography, hence French geography is focused on the evolution of polymorphic territories being the result of mankind actions.

Throughout the history of Jehovah's Witnesses, their beliefs, doctrines and practices have engendered controversy and opposition from the local governments, communities, or mainstream Christian groups.

pp. 23, 50, 62 ; German trans., pp. 30, 65, 78 )— Ibn Daud feels himself provoked to constant opposition by the doctrines of Gabirol, who represents the Neoplatonic philosophy.

The main doctrines of the Eleatics were evolved in opposition to the theories of the early physicalist philosophers, who explained all existence in terms of primary matter, and to the theory of Heraclitus, which declared that all existence may be summed up as perpetual change.

He laid stress on the evangelical view of these doctrines in opposition to the opinion of contemporary writers of very different schools, such as Vicesimus Knox and Joseph Milner.

1117 – c. 1131 ) was a French heresiarch who taught doctrines that were in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church's beliefs.

In the 1940s, the long held opposition by some established Christian denominations to non-Christian religions or / and supposedly heretical, or counterfeit, pseudo-Christian sects crystallized into a more organized " Christian countercult movement " in the United States ( using a doctrinal definition comparing the essential doctrines of established, Bible-based Christianity with the other groups deemed heretical ).

On going over the matter it became evident that the great obstacle would arise from Fox's being too much entangled with Grey, Lambton, and that set of men who had lately separated themselves from the party, in order to form a party of their own, and who publicly professed doctrines and opinions in direct opposition to what he and I considered to be for the good and welfare of the public.

The more conservative temper of the Anglican and Lutheran communions, however, suffered the retention of such processions as did not conflict with the reformed doctrines, though even in these Churches they met with opposition and tended after a while to fall into disuse.

Throughout Jehovah's Witnesses ' history, their beliefs, doctrines and practices have engendered controversy and opposition from local governments, communities, and religious groups.

He was a teacher of Cicero, and the first of a new breed of eclectics among the Platonists ; he endeavoured to bring the doctrines of the Stoics and the Peripatetics into Platonism, and stated, in opposition to Philo, that the mind could distinguish true from false.

He professed to be reviving the doctrines of the Old Academy, or of Plato's school, when he maintained, in opposition to Philo and Carneades, that the intellect had in itself a test by which it could distinguish truth from falsehood ; or in the language of the Academics, discern between the images arising from actual objects and those conceptions that had no corresponding reality.

In their early days they encountered opposition from local authorities and politicians, who argued that Socialist Sunday Schools were subverting the minds of young people with political and anti-religious doctrines and teachings.

It was becoming apparent that the reason that the Socialist Sunday Schools were encountering so much opposition was because they were ' being seen as subversive and as poisoning the minds of the young people of the country with their political and anti-religious doctrines and teachings ' and there were those who tried to discredit the Schools by accusations of blasphemy and revolutionary teachings.

In late March 302, Diocletian responded: the Manicheans " have set up new and hitherto unheard of sects in opposition to the older creeds so that they might cast out the doctrines vouchsafed to us in the past by divine favour, for the benefit of their own depraved doctrine ".

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

The status of full communion means, ideally, that there is mutual agreement on essential doctrines and that full participation in the sacramental life of each church is available to all communicant Anglicans.

# To condemn the principles and doctrines of Protestantism and to clarify the doctrines of the Catholic Church on all disputed points.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

According to this world view, over time " priests " had succeeded in encrusting the original simple, rational religion with all kinds of superstitions and " mysteries " irrational theological doctrines.

Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .< ref > Arneson Richard, " Egalitarianism ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( 2002.

In all his criticism of clerical follies and abuses, he had always protested that he was not attacking the Church itself or its doctrines, and had no enmity toward churchmen.

Practically all of Jerome's productions in the field of dogma have a more or less vehemently polemical character, and are directed against assailants of the orthodox doctrines.

The church enforces general doctrinal uniformity, and congregations on all continents teach the same doctrines, and international Mormons tend to absorb a good deal of Mormon culture, possibly because of the church's top-down hierarchy and a missionary presence.

" It was decided in the affirmative previous to his return ; but he approved with astonishing eloquence, and thereafter was ever in the front rank in maintaining intercommunion between all churches holding the main doctrines of the Reformation.

" Smith further claimed that in answer to his prayer: " I was answered Jesus that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong ; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight ; that those professors were all corrupt ; that: " they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.

These people believe all individuals can communicate directly with God and therefore do not need guidance or doctrines from a church.

The two outstanding doctrines of the Lotus Sutra, which were the focus of Nichiren ’ s teachings and practice are: the attainment of Buddhahood by all people in their lifetime, and the eternal life of the Buddha revealed in the Ceremony in the Air of the Lotus Sutra.

Furthermore, the Acts of the Thirteenth Session of the Council state, " And with these we define that there shall be expelled from the holy Church of God and anathematized Honorius who was some time Pope of Old Rome, because of what we found written by him to Sergius, that in all respects he followed his view and confirmed his impious doctrines.

I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be ; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others ; ascribing to himself every human excellence ; & believing he never claimed any other.

Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, desires that all should be well-learned in the good doctrines of other religions.

According to a 1996 statement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, although heredity influences behavior in individuals, it does not affect the ability of a population to function in any social setting, all peoples " possess equal biological ability to assimilate any human culture " and " racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations.