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Now, defined in this way, there's very little scholarship these days that is doctrinalist, whether in Constitutional law (which Einer thinks the last refuge of narrow doctrinalism) or outside of it.
Balkinization 2007
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* You* are the narrow doctrinalist, the intellectually uninteresting person.
Balkinization 2007
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But if online media have helped turn a deconstructionist into a doctrinalist, imagine what they will do to everyone else.
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Because of the current climate in the PCA, if the doctrinalist do not make it an issue it will not be taken seriously by many.
The Institute 2010
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This is consistent with history of many Southern Presbyterianism and many Calvinist doctrinalist, in general, especially the Puritans, as reported in Joseph R. Washington's research at the University of Pennsylvania (which oddly few people in the PCA have ever read).
The Institute 2010
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Where a doctrinalist analysis aims at producing a restatement of a legal rule, institutionalists are more likely to be focused on an elaboration of the development of legal thought in a wider social context.
Legal Theory Blog 2008
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"bishop" of the pietistic, doctrinalist, and culturalist wings (or any other subculture or network of friends) by their selective silence.
The Institute 2010
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