Everything about Doctrines totally explained
Doctrine (Latin:
doctrina) is a code of beliefs or "a body of
teachings" or "instructions", taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or
belief system. The
Greek analogy is the
etymology of
catechism.
Often doctrine specifically connotes a corpus of religious
dogma as it's
promulgated by a church, but not necessarily: doctrine is also used to refer to a principle of law, in the
common law traditions, established through a history of past decisions, such as the doctrine of
self-defense, or the principle of
fair use, or the more narrowly applicable
first-sale doctrine.
Foreign policy of Doctrine
In matters of
foreign policy, a doctrine, also known as
dogma, is a body of axioms fundamental to the exercise of a nation's foreign policy. Hence, doctrine, in this sense, has come to suggest a broad consistency that holds true across a spectrum of acts and actions. Doctrines of this sort are almost always presented as the personal creations of one particular political leader, whom they're named after. Examples include the
Monroe Doctrine, the
Stimson Doctrine, the
Truman Doctrine, the
Eisenhower Doctrine, the
Nixon Doctrine, the
Brezhnev Doctrine, the
Kirkpatrick doctrine, the
McCain Doctrine.
Religious usage
Examples of religious doctrines include:
One department of the
Roman Curia is called the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Military usage
The term also applies to the concept of an established procedure to a complex operation in
warfare. The typical example is tactical doctrine in which a standard set of maneuvers, kinds of troops and weapons are employed as a default approach to a kind of attack.
Examples of
military doctrines include:
Blitzkrieg of World War II
Hit-and-run tactics
Shock and Awe
Guerre de course
Mahanian of late 19th up to mid-20th Century
Trench Warfare of World War I
Manhunting Doctrine, or Assured Individual Destruction
Almost every military organization has its own doctrine. Sometimes written, sometimes unwritten.
Legal usage
A legal doctrine is a body of inter-related rules (usually of common law and built over a long period of time) associated with a legal concept or principle. For example the doctrine of frustration of purpose now has many tests and rules applicable with regards to each other and can be contained within a 'bubble' of Frustration. In a court session a defendant may refer to the doctrine of justification.
It can be seen that a branch of law contains various doctrine, which in turn contains various rules or tests. The test of Non-occurrence of crucial event is part of the doctrine of Frustration which is part of Contract Law. Doctrines can grow into a branch of law; restitution is now considered a branch of law separate to Contract and Tort.
Indoctrination
The term indoctrination came to have awkward connotations during the 20th century, but it's necessary to retain it, in order to distinguish it from education. In education one is asked to stand as much as possible outside the body of accumulated knowledge and analyze it. In indoctrination on the other hand, one stands within the body of knowledge and absorbs its teachings. Compare theology and comparative religion for examples, of which many could be drawn.
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