The self-righteous fury unleashed against Leo Strauss is partly because of the sense that he sinned against one of the most sacred doctrines of democratic culture: egalitarianism.

They know that like any sacred doctrine, the First Amendment is subject to the conflicting interpretations of its true believers.

This was the crucial break with sacred doctrine.

Eventually, Adams' friendship with Smith brought him into the Mormon prophet's inner circle, those whom he initiated into Nauvoo's most sacred doctrines practices.

Thomas viewed theology, or the sacred doctrine, as a science, the raw material data of which consists of written scripture and the tradition of the Catholic Church.

He that has not learned the sacred doctrines, how can he govern himself?

"My third proof follows from sacred doctrine."

Bacon insisted that all truth, even the most sacred doctrines of religion, must be subjected to the stringent critical methods of empirical science.

The first edition (1536) begins, "Nearly the whole of sacred doctrine consists in these two parts: knowledge of God and of ourselves."

Some have become part of the Hypateion's sacred doctrine.