Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said Father Huntington, agree that a definite course must be followed to gain physical or mental education; but few realize that the spiritual life should be developed by scientific methods. Dogma has a bad sound to many; but it is simply the church expressing what she means by her worship. No body of persons who have no way of telling their object, can have so strong a form of corporate life as a body whose belief is fully stated...
...However, dogma is not an artificial thing. It is not an attempt to coerce the worship of men. People coming to the faith of the church think it looks mechanical, but it gives the substance out of which all true emotions must arise. Hence the definite teachings of the church should lead men to study faith...
...practical and the theoretical aspects of the system-Story of the "spiritual attainments."- Dialogue between The Blessed One and the Son of Malunkya (religion versus dogma...
...presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine II, 468.- (1) It tends to break down conventional dogma.- (2) It accustoms the student to think for himself.- (c) It increases the student's self-reliance and self-respect: Educational Review, VII, 26, 325; Graduates' Magazine, II, 468; Harvard Monthly, XV, 93; Four American Universities, 17 fg.- (1) It throws him upon his own resources.- (2) He is treated...
Question: "Resolved, That the Roman Catholic dogma of papal infallibility is a menace to the State...