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/rɪlˈɪdʒəs dˈɑktrən/ Listen

Religious doctrine

noun

The written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group. Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, gospel.

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... been at first a religious ceremony. These Mysteries and Moralities were religious plays of the rudest kind: the Mysteries being a representation, partly by dumb show and partly by words, of some well-known incident related in the Bible; and the Moralities, a kind of discussion and enforcement of religious doctrine or moral truth by allegorical personages. They were performed at first almost entirely in the churches, upon scaffolds erected ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various

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... after all, if Church and State were to stand in some connection, the former must have some benefit from the alliance. Did such partnership imply exclusion from its privilege for all who could not accept the special brand of religious doctrine? Locke, at least, denied the assumption, and argued that since Churches are voluntary societies, they cannot and ought not to have reciprocal relation with the State. But Locke's theory was meat too strong for the digestion of his ...

— Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham • Harold J. Laski

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Words linked to "Religious doctrine" : creed, ecumenicalism, original sin, gospel, Immaculate Conception, doctrine, ecumenism, ecumenicism, Nicene Creed, tenet, philosophical system, church doctrine, ahimsa, philosophy, school of thought, Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, confession, incarnation, ism, real presence, dogma