Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Uldine's vocation of bringing light and leisure to the worker has been crowned with success, four sessions of Sunday school represent the sum of her incursion into the subtleties of dogma. And like her Brooklyn prototype her educational progress has been but mediocre. But then, as Carlyle once remarked in a burst of etymological exaltation, the word "vates" once meant both "prophet" and "poet", and the ways of each are equally inscrutable to the average...
...forms of religion. He lives in an age, as well as in a period of his own life, of revaluation of primary moral and intellectual conceptions; his comfortable faiths and prejudices when tested with experience and the white light of intellectual criticism reveal the bare skeleton of dogma, and as such become abhorrent. That he goes too far in rejecting the background of faith is the charge made categorically against him by the self-righteous and captious critic, who does not realize that it is only by passing through such a necessary and purgative period of testing and examination that...
...experience of the greatest actors has shown that really sincere emotion has failed to produce a convincing portrayal on the stage. After this evidence it appears logically necessary, in spite of the disappointment to those who believe in progress through the ages to revert to Diderot's paradoxical dogma that art is not nature but nature intensified and sublimated through the medium of the imagination. If our actors can not feel and portray their emotions at the same moment, by all means do away with their feelings: if a man cannot be natural and artistic at the same time...
...over to Rome. Wrote he, reporting the congress for the New York Herald Tribune: " 'What are the fundamental difficulties in the way of reunion with Rome?' I asked [a fellow divine]. The answer was: 'There are but two-the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope.' The Catholics of the Episcopal Church are willing to render obedience to the Pope as the chief of bishops; they balk at infallibility and cherish the hope that in some unforeseen fashion the bars may be lowered that they may enter...
...sermon was by the Bishop of Winchester. His text, Matthew 4:17, declared the "imminence of the Kingdom of God." His theme etched a contrast between old church councils which debated dogma and this conference which concerned itself with the practical good which Christianity should attempt to achieve in the world today; his crescendo, "the sovereignty of Jesus in everything pertaining to human affairs." The Patriarch of Alexandria uttered the benediction...