doctrinally
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Earlier this year, the Vatican sent in investigators to look into his governance of the diocese, amid reports he was making doctrinally unorthodox claims.
From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2023
Still, Francis’s church is doctrinally opposed to euthanasia, and he has personally condemned it, so the pope did allude, in one of his public addresses, to “patients who, in place of affection, are administered death.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022
There are many reasons not to engage directly with these tentative thoughts, chief among them that they appear to be doctrinally unsound.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2022
St. John Paul II's conservative Vatican had launched a crackdown on liberation theology, and the cause languished in the Vatican's doctrine office while theologians studied his writings to ensure they were doctrinally sound.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2018
Her connection with the Protestants was political, not theological, for doctrinally she was farther from Geneva than from Rome.
From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)
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