Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature of the Hindus has no such word as "Religion". The word Dharma, mistranslated as religion does not stand for dogma or creed; it stands for righteousness or duty "to be applied in practice." Our sentiments toward God, our relations with our fellow beings, our individual conduct, all these are comprehended in the word Dharma Hinduism, i. e., Hindu-Dharma is thus a system of philosophies which are mainly founded on the basic teachings inculcated in the Vedas. In the words of a competent authority, "Happily, India, though it has at least 20 languages, has but one sacred and learned...
...wearing of phylacteries, and rhythmic beating upon the breast constitute "godliness"? Perhaps "godliness" is synonymous with regular attendance upon a house of worship. Or "godliness" may be consequent upon acceptance of a creed, say the Athanasian or its antithesis, the Nicene; perhaps even upon subscription to some system of dogma devised a thousand or five hundred years ago by the light of burning fagots...
...outward and visible signs and deliberate subscription to creed or dogma are the ear-marks of "godliness", then all that inward reflection which hopes to place us in harmony with the god of things as they are, all that secret communion with our better selves, and all that conscious adherence to the spirit of great teachers, such as the Nazarene, must be considered devices of the "godless". Just when does a man, and collectively, a university become "godless...
...dogma half the Cardinals oppose...
...also St. Bonaventura. However, John Duns Scotus, a celebrated Franciscan who died in 1308, argued in favor of the Immaculate Conception, in 1387 the University of Paris adopted it, in 1483 Pope Sixtus IV condemned those who denied it, and in 1854 Pope Pius IX promulgated it as dogma...