As he pointed out, no extant alchemical work dating from the Han period is based on the doctrinal principles of the Cantong qi, or uses its cosmological model and its language (Chen Guofu, 1983:352-54).

Father Burns said he believed at the time that his dismissal stemmed from his outspoken beliefs that priests should be free to disagree with the Vatican's doctrinal principles.

Sola scriptura was a foundational doctrinal principle of the Protestant Reformation held by the Reformers and is a formal principle of Protestantism today (see Five solas).

However, the Vatican was able to reassert its disciplinary authority by appointing a new assistant archbishop as a reminder of the need to abide by the Vatican's doctrinal principles.

In the introduction to this main work, Gall makes the following statement in regard to his doctrinal principles, which comprise the intellectual basis of phrenology:

UCG follows and believes in most of the basic doctrinal principles shared by other Christian churches.

English departments have set off after theory, and use culture as an instrument to illustrate doctrinal principles, whether Marxist or "French Freud."

Reformed in that it has been shaped by the doctrinal principles of the 16th century Protestant Reformation, in particular in the Thirty-Nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer.

The dialectical principle of reason has, therefore, been changed into a doctrinal principle.

Clarity of scripture is an important doctrinal and Biblical interpretive principle for many evangelical Christians.