Let the historians and the Ph.D. students work out their doctrines. I'm not interested in theories per se.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.