Nor was the preparation of doctrinal manuals left in the hands of inexperienced junior officers.
Doctrinal formulations in the early 1540s continued to reflect the king's views.
He is expert in doctrinal issues and does good deeds, but he does not appear to copy manuscripts.
As he applied the traditional theory of ignorance to his discourse on doctrinal correction, the concentration of corrective power on the ecclesiastical hierarchy effectively collapsed.
The views of the doctrinal conservatives might then be thought as likely to reflect his own beliefs as those of the radicals.
Theologians and philosophers asserted the possessive nature of selfhood in reaction to their doctrinal adversaries, and vice versa.
Vainly hoping to demonstrate by upright living their fitness for mainstream society, they clung tenaciously to bourgeois respectability and doctrinal orthodoxy.
Consequently, there was interaction between the two religions, not on doctrinal or philosophical grounds but at a popular level.
