Several times during its history, the society has been faced with doctrinal controversy.

Notes that "the Buddha discouraged doctrinal controversies as prejudicial to inward peace and ethical striving.

While doctrinal controversy led to the withdrawal of ministers, the fellowship experienced growth in subsequent years.

His letters are mostly concerned with commercial issues and rarely say much of the doctrinal religious controversies in England.

This doctrinal controversy, revolving around two words distinguished by a single iota (ι), gave rise to the popular expression, "It makes not one iota of difference."

In that year he engaged also in numerous ritual and doctrinal controversies.

Instead, they held that genuine unity between Christians and real theological peace was only possible with an honest agreement about every subject of doctrinal controversy.

In January of 2013, Inside Higher Ed characterized the university as being in the midst of an "ongoing, tangled doctrinal controversy."

Twice in the course of the great discussion, he allowed himself to enter the field of doctrinal controversy, a field foreign to both his nature and his previous practice.

Around this period several doctrinal controversies emerged, such as the question of whether God had predestined some for salvation and some for damnation.