religious teachings
Faith's guiding principles
Religious teachings are the doctrines, principles, and moral instructions transmitted by a faith tradition.
These include sacred texts, interpretive commentaries, ethical guidelines, and spiritual practices passed down through clergy, scholars, or oral tradition.
The phrase typically implies authoritative guidance rather than personal belief: The religious teachings of Buddhism emphasize the cessation of suffering.
Religious teachings shape everything from dietary restrictions to views on the afterlife.
- parablesDidactic allegorical tales
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- commandmentsAuthoritative rules demanding compliance
- ten commandmentsTen fundamental rules
- divine lawRules from deity
creed · golden rule · dogma · liturgy · virtue · allegories · tenets · original sin · theology · morality · dharma · sutras · cautionary tales · gospel · holy scripture · sacred texts · scriptures · doctrine
- Dasam GranthDasam Granth
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heirs, heiress
religious teachingsscientific knowledge
Facts established through research
secular humanism · freethought · evidence-based reasoning · empiricism · rationalism
religious teachingsatheism
Rejection of deities
materialism · naturalism · physicalism · nihilism · reductionism
religious teachingsheresy
Belief opposing official doctrine
apostasy · blasphemy · secularization · heterodoxy · irreligion