All 8 Uses of
doctrine
in
The Screwtape Letters
- He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" of "false", but as "academic" or "practical", "outworn" or "contemporary", "conventional" or "ruthless".†
Chpt 1
- The Enemy will also try to render real in the patient's mind a doctrine which they all profess but find it difficult to bring home to their feelings--the doctrine that they did not create themselves, that their talents were given them, and that they might as well be proud of the colour of their hair.†
Chpt 14
- The Enemy will also try to render real in the patient's mind a doctrine which they all profess but find it difficult to bring home to their feelings--the doctrine that they did not create themselves, that their talents were given them, and that they might as well be proud of the colour of their hair.†
Chpt 14
- I don't mean on really doctrinal issues; about those, the more lukewarm he is the better.†
Chpt 16
- And it isn't the doctrines on which we chiefly depend for producing malice.†
Chpt 16
- The real fun is working up hatred between ... [them] when neither party could possibly state the difference between, say, Hooker's doctrine and Thomas Aquinas', in any form which would hold water for five minutes.
Chpt 16 *doctrine = beliefs
- You will find that a good many Christian-political writers think that Christianity began going wrong, and departing from the doctrine of its Founder, at a very early stage.†
Chpt 23
- The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had--and sin, not against some new fancy-dress law produced as a novelty by a "great man", but against the old, platitudinous, universal moral law which they had been taught by their nurses and mothers.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group