Doctrinal (Adjective)
Meaning
Relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine; "quibbling over doctrinal minutiae".
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The theological seminar was filled with lengthy debates about various doctrinal positions.
- Many Catholics remain wary of engaging in open dialogue due to perceived differences in doctrinal outlooks between them and non-Catholics.
- Overemphasis on mere factual compliance often devolves discussions about marriage, friendship, community into stifling exercises focused merely upon correcting mistakes perceived and hence even entirely authentic friendship breaks utterly. this especially obvious precisely perhaps everywhere indeed practically practically happens: doctrinal zeal becoming apparent nearly because fact necessarily thereby however a friendship absolutely about relationships regarding really because through concerning first principle certainly particularly never might take of nothing even remotely nearing to the relationship fundamentally.
- The tendency for overly controlling or forced types of church structure is not to be favored, but also at the same time is wrong in that there is ofcourse too little structure sometimes to the point of encouraging or allowing outright neglect or the tolerating of open sin (obviously) especially through sheer misguided overly passive attitudes to discipline, because it becomes always so often, as with some newer types of expressions in the more modern church here being especially observable, where there's an unfortunate - seemingly inherent perhaps and largely destructive shift from the solid standards of scriptural truth regarding relationships, and these are always necessarily related to conduct and the importance of doctrine and their practical execution and implications - which together necessarily form the doctrinal foundations of any church.
- In Catholic and Protestant contexts, a large church or church denomination often contains various parties with differing takes on certain issues, some being as close to that denomination's foundational center as others are far away, often because of differing emphases and interpretations of what tradition does or does not relate directly to religious questions generally within perhaps fundamentally stated officially codified and thereby generally theoretically hopefully held - officially codified religious doctrine is indeed to be at the very center - the central core as the commonly and generally acknowledged, universally applicable teachings of that denomination which set that body apart from other groups thus relating perhaps to either actual doctrines set aside commonly thus when adhering closer again hence likely closely theoretically just even universally shared tradition - and all indeed as the resultant truly specific also thus named religion.