Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Allan Armstrong Hunter, California student at Union Theological ,Seminary, has found a voice. A contributor to magazines, he makes (in The Forum) this point: the young priest or preacher is not interested in debates about theological dogma (virgin birth, etc.); the young priest is interested in questions which he scarcely dares face, and those are the questions of " social justice." Are the rich too rich; the poor too poor? Since the church does so little to educate young men and women to marry intelligently, has it a right to forbid divorce? Birth control? Perhaps H. G. Wells is right...
...Pope will never quit Rome," said the Temps, " if for no other reason than that Catholic dogma precludes it. The church is Catholic, Apostolic and Roman...
...rapidly decaying College. He was installed as a reformer. And he set about to reform. He had a definite theory of education which he proceeded to put into action. That theory was the theory of education as a stimulus to inquiry and speculation rather than a mere communication of dogma. As it was once expressed by Professor W. H. Hamilton (professor of economics under Dr. Meiklejohn), who has just left Amherst: "Education by ritual gives slavery to those who cry for freedom. The man who has been habituated to doing what another says cannot choose worthwhile things for himself...
...important, habits of thinking no less mechanical than turning a screw every ten seconds. Clerks, at first fresh and alert, who allow their jobs to become mere routine with no spark of inquiry enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such men may do no personal evil, but their influence in preventing progress, their reaction against change, due to inertia alone, is tremendous...
...were selected by a committee of the National Student Forum, under whose auspices they are touring America, as men representative of their nation as a whole and not of any political faction or dogma...