He says: `` beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy ''.

Traditional Calvinists believe in the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which says that because God chose some unto salvation and actually paid for their particular sins, he keeps them from apostasy and that those who do apostatize were never truly regenerated ( that is, born again ) or saved.

According to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the doctrine of Ahimsa does not say " Kill not " it says, " Love all ".

Hippolytus says the free love doctrine was held by them in its purest form, and speaks in language similar to that of Irenaeus about the variety of magic arts practiced by the Simonians, and also of their having images of Simon and Helen under the forms of Zeus and Athena.

This is sometimes referred to as " bumping " and appears to contradict the text of the Constitution, which says ( in Article II, section 1, Clause 6 ): The Continuity of Government Commission argued that as well as going against the language of the Constitution, bumping violates the doctrine of separation of powers by undermining the independence of the executive from the Congress:

Occasionalism is a philosophical doctrine about causation which says that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events.

In theology, the doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is without parts.

The doctrine aides, then, in interpreting the Scriptures so as to avoid paradox — as when Scripture says, for example, that the creation is " very good ", and also that " none is good but God alone "— since only God is goodness, while nevertheless humanity is created in the likeness of goodness ( and the likeness is necessarily imperfect in humanity, unless that person is also God ).

Despite its name, the Monitor does not claim to be a religious-themed paper, and says it does not promote the doctrine of its patron church.

The Father and the Holy Ghost are one and the same, says this doctrine ; " Father " refers to God in parental relationship, while " Holy Ghost " refers to God in activity.

But 1 Tim 2: 12 says that women are not permitted to teach, that is, teach as authorities ( there, teaching is related to the exercising of authority ), so as to define doctrine.

The main point of the references to Hegel here is to criticize Heiberg and Martensen and not any particular doctrine in Hegel ’ s philosophy .” He says this becomes more clear when Fear and Trembling is compared to The Concept of Irony.

It has been suggested that the reason that John Paul did not simply define it extraordinarily was in order to not weaken the understanding that the ordinary magisterium is also infallible, to remind Catholics that it is not merely the extraordinary definitions that are infallible and irreversible as if doctrine were positivistic — that it holds " only if the pope says so with a particular formula ".

Bernard says that Barth's doctrine bears such similarities to Oneness thought that his critics labeled him a " modalist.

This solution is essentially an application of the doctrine of double effect, which says that you may take action which has bad side effects, but deliberately intending harm ( even for good causes ) is wrong.

" For the Church of England ," he there says, " I am persuaded that the constant doctrine of it is so pure and orthodox, that whosoever believes it, and lives according to it, undoubtedly he shall be saved, and that there is no error in it which may necessitate or warrant any man to disturb the peace or renounce the communion of it.

Later on Clement quotes a similar doctrine, which derives from the same background, and which he attributes explicitly to the Apocalypse of Peter: ' Divine providence extends not only to those who are in the flesh, Peter, for example, says in his Apocalypse, " Aborted infants are entrusted to a guardian angel, so that having obtained a share in the gnosis they may arrive at a better destiny "' ( XLVIII, 1 ).

According to scholar Moojan Momen, " One of the key statements in the Qur ' an around which much of the exegesis " on the issue of what Islamic doctrine says about who is in charge is based on the verse

Not everything the prophet says is considered to be doctrine.

This was, and continues to be, puzzling for " it is not easy to see why precisely a supporter of the doctrine of predestination that, according to what he himself says, is in conformity with the Confession and the Catechism, should ask for their revision.

For example, the College of Arms website ( as of June 2006 ), far from insisting on any doctrine of " One man one coat " suggested by some academic writers, says:

Historically, the main rival of the quantity theory was the real bills doctrine, which says that the issue of money does not raise prices, as long as the new money is issued in exchange for assets of sufficient value.

As Calvinist Charles Hodge says, " The ( Arminian ) and ( Roman Catholic ) doctrine is true, if the other parts of their doctrinal system are true ; and it is false if that system be erroneous.

The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland claims to be Reformed in doctrine, worship and practice, and says that all its actions are based on the Word of God: the Bible.

Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

They held that an ideal spiritual state transcends, or goes beyond, the physical and empirical, and that one achieves that insight via personal intuition rather than religious doctrine.

It holds a doctrine or theology " built on esoteric truths of the ancient past ", which, " concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm.

He combined this with a strong emphasis on the cultivation of in-depth insight into the doctrine of emptiness as propounded by the Indian Madhyamaka masters Nāgārjuna ( 2nd century ) and Candrakīrti ( 7th century ).

He then discusses ten questions bearing on this doctrine, which are of interest as " affording an insight into popular views that then prevailed, and which, despite their singularity, could not be ignored even by such a man as Saadia " ( Guttmann ).

A similarity, common to most Nichiren schools, is the shared doctrine of The Three Great Hidden Dharmas, referred to in some schools as theThree Great Secret Laws, as “... it was in order to put the insight of Ichinen Sanzen into actual practice that Nichiren Shonin taught The Three Great Secret Dharmas: the Gohonzon, the Essential Focus of Reverence, the Odaimoku, the great Title of the Lotos Sutra ; and the Kaidan, the Precept Platform .”

Weatherhead's scorn for theology — he claimed that poets had more insight than theologians — and penchant for " preaching as psychotherapy " made him, in Larsen's view, " a tragic instance in which psychical research replaced ' sound doctrine '".

* a kind of historicism according to which Marxists have a privileged insight into the " march of history "; the doctrine is thought to provide the truth, in advance of real research and experience.

The choice of a nickname for M. Royer-Collard does credit to the journalistic insight of the contributors to the Nain jaune réfugié, for he was emphatically a man who made it his business to preach a doctrine and an orthodoxy.

The extreme of Calvinism is hyper-Calvinism, which insists that signs of election must be sought before evangelization of the unregenerate takes place and that the eternally damned have no obligation to repent and believe, and on the extreme of Arminianism is Pelagianism, which rejects the doctrine of original sin on grounds of moral accountability ; but the overwhelming majority of Protestant, evangelical pastors and theologians hold to one of these two systems or somewhere in between.

Abatement of debts and legacies is a common law doctrine of wills that holds that when the equitable assets of a deceased person are not sufficient to satisfy fully all the creditors, their debts must abate proportionately, and they must accept a dividend.

Jesus explained to Nicodemus that this doctrine was in error — that every person must have two births — the natural birth of the physical body, the other of the water and the spirit.

The doctrine of the rule of law dictates that government must be conducted according to law.

The inferior status to which the deuteros were relegated by authorities like Jerome is seen by some as being due to a rigid conception of canonicity, one demanding that a book, to be entitled to this supreme dignity, must be received by all, must have the sanction of Jewish antiquity, and must moreover be adapted not only to edification, but also to the " confirmation of the doctrine of the Church ".

The doctrine of the infallibility of ecumenical councils states that solemn definitions of ecumenical councils, approved by the Pope, which concern faith or morals, and to which the whole Church must adhere are infallible.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

However, a secular critique of the natural law doctrine was stated by Pierre Charron in his De la sagesse ( 1601 ): " The sign of a natural law must be the universal respect in which it is held, for if there was anything that nature had truly commanded us to do, we would undoubtedly obey it universally: not only would every nation respect it, but every individual.

Under the doctrine of stare decisis, a lower court must honor findings of law made by a higher court that is within the appeals path of cases the court hears.

Originalism — the doctrine that holds that the meaning of a written text must be applied — is in tension with stare decisis, but is not necessarily opposed irrevocably.

... this infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed His Church to be endowed in defining doctrine of faith and morals, extends as far as the deposit of Revelation extends, which must be religiously guarded and faithfully expounded.

Thus, a particular exercise of personal jurisdiction must not only be permitted by Constitutional doctrine, but be statutorily authorized as well.

Res ipsa loquitur is often confused with prima facie (" at first sight "), the common law doctrine that a party must show some minimum amount of evidence before a trial is worthwhile.

A further proclamation of 1538, aiming to stop the spread of Lutheran doctrine, saw Henry VIII note that " sondry contentious and sinyster opiniones, have by wrong teachynge and naughtye bokes increaced and growen within this his realme of England ", and declare that all authors and printers must allow the Privy Council or their agents to read and censor books before publication.

In the nineteenth century, Charles Sanders Peirce defined what he termed " semiotic " ( which he sometimes spelled as " semeiotic ") as the " quasi-necessary, or formal doctrine of signs ", which abstracts " what must be the characters of all signs used by ... an intelligence capable of learning by experience ", and which is philosophical logic pursued in terms of signs and sign processes.

As a practical matter, the limitation of Congress's ability to investigate only for a proper purpose (" in aid of " its legislative powers ) functions as a limit on Congress's ability to investigate the private affairs of individual citizens ; matters that simply demand action by another branch of government, without implicating an issue of public policy necessitating legislation by Congress, must be left to those branches due to the doctrine of separation of powers.

On July 3, 2007, the Court ( through the original three-judge panel ) ruled ( 1 ) that the taxpayer's compensation was received on account of a non-physical injury or sickness ; ( 2 ) that gross income under section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code does include compensatory damages for non-physical injuries, even if the award is not an " accession to wealth ," ( 3 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries is an indirect tax, regardless of whether the recovery is restoration of " human capital ," and therefore the tax does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 9, Clause 4, that capitations or other direct taxes must be laid among the states only in proportion to the population ; ( 4 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, that all duties, imposts and excises be uniform throughout the United States ; ( 5 ) that under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the Internal Revenue Service may not be sued in its own name.

Powell noted that some MPs had described the eleven as " sub-human ", but Powell responded by saying: " In general, I would say that it is a fearful doctrine, which must recoil upon the heads of those who pronounce it, to stand in judgement on a fellow human being and to say, ' Because he was such-and-such, therefore the consequences which would otherwise flow from his death shall not flow '.

Priests are sacraments of faith, prefigured in the person of Melchizedek, and must themselves be dispensers of a life other than earthly life ; they must not seek to please men but rather must follow Christian doctrine and life and strive always for holiness and voluntary poverty.