Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of John Bricker's gospel was compounded of dogma which Republicans have used with dulling regularity; he called upon the citizenry to consider the horrible facts of the public debt, and New Deal bureaus, and unblushingly cried out a warning against U.S. Communists. But with John Bricker, as with Billy Sunday, it was delivery rather than text which filled the big tent...
...vivid description of a child dead at birth gives way to his account of his religious training: "Especially present to me is the very philosophic dogma that God is everywhere, by His essence, by His presence and by His power; of which, however, the first clause has always remained obscure to me. . . . But the other two clauses are luminous, and have taught me from the first to conceive omnificent power and eternal truth. ... I have reasserted them, in my mature philosophy. . . . They belong to human sanity, to human orthodoxy; I wish to cling to that, no matter from what source...
Democracy and Dogma. In Christian theology Chesterton found "the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy," and the dogmatic justification of many of his social and political views. In the medieval church he saw the protector of the small landowner and the life of individual intensity. "There is no basis for democracy," he concluded, "except in a dogma about the divine origin of man." Chesterton's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1922 (his priest, Father O'Connor, was the model for Detective Father Brown) was a sensation in England...
...second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate braininess, dug up an Aleutian skull larger than Daniel Webster's. Hrdlička concluded that U.S. life had streamlined the European body...
...Infallible formulator for them of dogma in faith and morals...