faith healing
faith cure | care provided through prayer and faith in God |
| faith | loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person, keep the faith, they broke faith with their investors |
congregation
congregating | the act of congregating |
good faith
straightness | having honest intentions, he acted in good faith, doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants |
cy pres
rule of cy pres
cy pres doctrine | a rule that when literal compliance is impossible the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as nearly as possible |
doctrine of analogy
analogy | the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater, any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate |
conviction
strong belief
article of faith | an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence |
| faith trust | complete confidence in a person or plan etc, he cherished the faith of a good woman, the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust |
doctrine
philosophy philosophical system
school of thought
ism | a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
religion
faith
religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny, he lost his faith but not his morality |
legal principle
judicial principle
judicial doctrine | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |
cell theory
cell doctrine | (biology) the theory that cells form the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms, proposed in by Matthias Schleiden and by Theodor Schwann |
philosophical doctrine
philosophical theory | a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy |
| theological doctrine | the doctrine of a religious group |
| Baptistic doctrine | any of various doctrines closely related to Anabaptism |
article of faith
credendum | (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided |
| Defender of the Faith | a title that Leo X bestowed on Henry VIII and later withdrew, parliament restored the title and it has been used by English sovereigns ever since |
| Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the western hemisphere from outside powers |
| Truman doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
| full faith and credit | a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt, usually issued by the United States Treasury |
religious doctrine
church doctrine
gospel creed | the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group |
| congregation | an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together, a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph, a great congregation of birds flew over |
congregation
fold
faithful | a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church |
religion
faith
organized religion | an institution to express belief in a divine power, he was raised in the Baptist religion, a member of his own faith contradicted him |
Roman Inquisition
Congregation of the Inquisition | an inquisition set up in Italy in to curb the number of Protestants, it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial |
| on faith | with trust and confidence, we accepted him on faith |