doctrine
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
doctrine /ˈdɒktrɪn/
▶noun a set of beliefs or principles held and taught by a Church, political party, or other group.
– derivatives
doctrinal adjective,
doctrinally adverb.
doctrinal adjective,
doctrinally adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. doctrina ‘teaching, learning’, from doctor ‘teacher’, from docere ‘teach’.
'doctrine' also found in these Oxford entries:
Anabaptism
- anathema
- angelology
- Anglo-Catholicism
- apologetic
- apologetics
- Arminian
- assumption
- Broad Church
- cabbalistic
- Calvinism
- camp
- catholic
- concomitance
- confession
- consequentialism
- consubstantiation
- contextualism
- descriptivism
- determinism
- dissent
- divine right of kings
- Docetism
- doctrinaire
- Erastianism
- essentialism
- evangelical
- ex cathedra
- fideism
- finalism
- Gallican
- God
- heresy
- hylomorphism
- hylozoism
- Immaculate Conception
- indeterminism
- indoctrinate
- -ine
- infallibility
- lapse
- Lutheran Church
- materialism
- mechanism
- modalism
- monism
- monotheism
- Monothelite
- mutualism
