Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Harvard audiences he has emphasized his super-creedal ideal. He has believed that a new era is at hand, in which traditional religion is breaking through its hard chrysalis of dogma and coming forth a changing, living faith in harmony with a changing, living world. For him, dogmas can not contain it. Creeds may fit it for the moment, but for a moment only. The aspirations of the new man rise higher; knowledge increases; thought advanced through an ever broadening vista: with the result that dogma and creed have ceased to express adequately for the new generation what they...
Transubstantiation, a dogma of the Holy Roman Church, is the belief that the bread at mass does actually become the Body of Jesus Christ. Martin Luther finally came to the conclusion that Rome was in error on this point. He said, in effect: "The bread and wine do not become the Body and Blood of Christ, but they have the effect of being so." Eventually Protestants went further and declared that the bread and wine were simply a sacred token of the Body of Christ...
...this question Carlos Fuller, young graduate of Union Theological Seminary, replied that while he did not deny the well-known dogma, he could not assert his belief...
...edition of Matthew Arnold's work, in twelve volumes, has just been brought out by. The Macmillan Company. The six volumes of essays include the famous "Essays in Criticism," "Culture and Anarchy," etc., there are three volumes of poetry, and the remaining volumes are "Discourses in America," "Literture and Dogma," and "God and the Bible." The volumes can all be bought separately...
...more impressive poet, was his contemporary. From the time that he went on the stage because, as some will have it, of a very pretty young actress, to his death "in harness" on the stage of the Comedie Francaise, his life was a long struggle against the critics and dogma of his time. "The knowledge". Professor Wright said, "that his career gave him of the weaknesses and foibles of his day, is one of the most significant reasons for the affection in which the French people hold...