Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beacon in a Fog. While most other Protestant publications were displaying their intellectual poverty either by clinging stubbornly to dogma or retreating headlong before the advance of secularism, the Christian Century remained stimulating and profound; it eventually became a beacon of level-headedness in a fog of misty thinking...
Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton passionately accepted the orthodoxy that Kierkegaard scorned. A devout member of the Church of England from his youth, at the age of 48 he became a Roman Catholic. But though he accepted and stoutly defended every word of Roman Catholic dogma, he denounced the economic orthodoxy of modern capitalism...
...unique character of Harvard's theology instruction has been generally conceded as the cause of poor financial support. The Divinity School faculty preaches no dogma, but rather makes a historical approach to contemporary religions. By thus embracing rabbis to Humanists, it offers a contrast to the sectarian theological schools, which are currently flourishing and growing...
...Within the Soviet people and even inside the Communist dogma there are, however, seeds of freedom, and these, if not destroyed by wars or economic plights, might possibly sprout some day into genuine democracy...
...Generally, according to a large body of dogma bordering on idolatry, the flag must be lowered at sundown. But there are many exceptions. It may be displayed after dark for "patriotic effect." It is flown at night from forts and naval vessels which are engaged with an enemy, and also over the east and west fronts of the Capitol Building in Washington, over the grave of Francis Scott Key in Frederick, Md., and over the war memorial at Worcester, Mass., built as an architectural dramatization of the colors...