How to Use doctrinal in a Sentence

doctrinal

adjective

• And the Bible alone was the sole source of doctrinal truth (sola scriptura).
  — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2019
• And so in addition to a doctrinal division, a visual schism between the north and the south, the Protestant and the Catholic, opened.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 May 2018
• Pearson is soon in the throes of a crisis of faith, which is only resolved by his doctrinal change of heart.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
• The church’s doctrinal office is led by Cardinal Luis Ladaria, who was handpicked by the pope and is seen as in lock step with him.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 June 2021
• For its part, the Ilse house demonstrates that the Bauhaus could inspire mash-ups as well as doctrinal purity.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• For many, the core doctrinal beliefs weren’t enough to ignore the jarring differences.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 May 2021
• In a big breach of doctrinal correctness, El Greco borrowed from all four Gospels.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
• The history of Islam, its doctrinal texts (the Koran, the Sira and the Hadith), and the pronouncements of its preachers and interpreters (imams) confirm this.
  — Cincinnati.com, 17 May 2017
• The priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church is restricted to men only, based on doctrinal teaching that all of Jesus’ apostles were male.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• But, as the Pope, Francis has full authority over the doctrinal office and plenty of ways to exercise it.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2021
• The more conciliatory rhetoric has stopped short of doctrinal changes.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• And when considering the speed and scope of doctrinal change, Justice Ginsburg’s thoughts on Roe v. Wade may be relevant.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
• The decree, issued by the Vatican’s doctrinal body, leaned on language that gay Catholics have long found alienating.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
• At one Colorado colony, a dozen children died from malnutrition in 1906, and other start-ups since then have been plagued with doctrinal disputes.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Was their decision a worthy trade-off—or should judges be doctrinal absolutists in the tradition of Ginsburg and Scalia?
  — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2020
• Francis’s merely airing these questions — as well as the place of homosexuals in the church — represents to him a look into the abyss of doctrinal chaos.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Apr. 2018
• He had been baptized a Christian, even if doctrinal affinity put him in the heretical Arian camp.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
• Before he was elected pope in 2005, Benedict was a German cardinal who served as the Church's guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy.
  — Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• This isn’t the doctrinal Wright, warning us of the disasters that capitalism creates.
  — Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 7 May 2021
• Nor does Francis, despite his compassion for African migrants to the rich world, find the African church easy to navigate, given the doctrinal conservatism of its leaders.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2019
• Even so, the engineering ingenuity of the Ukrainians lies in stark contrast to the slow, plodding, doctrinal nature of the Russian advance.
  — Eric Schmitt, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
• In these situations, ordinary folk, not the priestly class, were the guardians of doctrinal correctness.
  — The Economist, 17 Dec. 2019
• Cardinal O’Malley wrote to the prosecutor’s superior, the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, to protest the speech.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• In late August, the party’s leading doctrinal journal published a speech that Xi made in 2020 that hinted at internal debate.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
• This could be a doctrinal hook for union-busting antitrust lawyers who may argue that striking independent contractors are seeking to raise the price of goods and services, not their wages.
  — Sandeep Vaheesan, The New Republic, 2 May 2022
• The previous standard, offered by the Second Circuit in 1994, required accused students to jump through doctrinal hoops to raise a plausible claim.
  — Kc Johnson, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• Thomas’s argument against substantive due process is more than doctrinal.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
• That rite will be a simple one, the Vatican has said, in keeping with the wishes of Benedict, who for decades as a German cardinal had served as the Church’s guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy before he was elected pope in 2005.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• To congregations that had grown tired of doctrinal and moral pronouncements, the new style—which recast the sermon as a story with which the listener could readily identify—came as a breath of fresh air.
  — The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Justice O’Connor’s aversion to doctrinal rigidities and instinct for the middle ground had roots in her experience in elective office.
  — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024