English > theological doctrine: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The doctrine of a religious group. |
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| Narrower | Arianism | heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son |
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| Athanasianism | The theological doctrine taught by Athanasius that Christ the Son is of the same substance as God the Father |
| Boehmenism, Behmenism | The mystical theological doctrine of Jakob Boehme that influenced the Quakers |
| Christology | A religious doctrine or theory based on Jesus or Jesus' teachings |
| Docetism | The heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real |
| Episcopalianism | The theological doctrine of church government by bishops |
| Erastianism, Byzantinism, Caesaropapism | The doctrine that the state / state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters |
| Gnosticism | A religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element |
| Hinayanism | The religious doctrine of Hinayana Buddhism |
| Jansenism | The Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples |
| Mahayanism | The religious doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism |
| Marcionism | The Christian heresy / heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human |
| Monophysitism | A Christian heresy / heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature |
| Monothelitism | The theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine) |
| Neoplatonism | A system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism |
| Nestorianism | The theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God) |
| Pelagianism | The theological doctrine put forward by Pelagius which denied original sin and affirmed the ability of humans to be righteous |
| Quakerism | The theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual and a formal creed and an ordained ministry |
| Rosicrucianism | The theological doctrine that venerates the rose and the cross as symbols of Christ's Resurrection and redemption |
| Thomism | The comprehensive theological doctrine created by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century and still taught by the Dominicans |
| Virgin Birth, Nativity | The theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father |
| Zurvanism | A heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe and that both Ahura Mazda and Ahriman were Zurvan's offspring |
| antinomianism | The theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) |
| consubstantiation | The doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine |
| millenarianism, millenarism, millenniumism, chiliasm | belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations |
| predestination, foreordination, preordination, predetermination | (theology) being determined in advance |
| rationalism | The theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth |
| reincarnation | The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions |
| spiritualism | (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God |
| synergism | The theological doctrine that salvation results from the interaction of human will and divine grace |
| theanthropism | (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine |
| total depravity | The Calvinist doctrine that everyone is born in a state of corruption as a result of original sin |
| transubstantiation | The Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist |
| universalism | The theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved |
| Broader | doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism | A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
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| Spanish | doctrina teológica |
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| Catalan | doctrina teològica |
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