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Word: dogma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of first-rate public responsibility, and none of them found it possible to retain the pacifist dogma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fighting Friends | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Quakers have no formal creed; in its place they have put one great central doctrine, the doctrine of the Inner Light. What the Light reveals is left to the individual conscience; it is not imposed on us from outside. If this is correct, the attempt to prescribe the pacifist dogma is clearly inconsistent with that tolerance which the great doctrine implies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fighting Friends | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Dogma v. Citizenship. Nor would Dr. Blanshard let his fellow Quakers take refuge in tradition, the Inner Light, the Bible, or their own definition of good citizenship. His points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fighting Friends | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of first-rate public responsibility, and none of them found it possible to retain the pacifist dogma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fighting Friends | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Quakers have no formal creed; in its place they have put one great central doctrine, the doctrine of the Inner Light. What the Light reveals is left to the individual conscience; it is not imposed on us from outside. If this is correct, the attempt to prescribe the pacifist dogma is clearly inconsistent with that tolerance which the great doctrine implies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fighting Friends | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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