Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between the two. Creed or Chaos (Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is a collection of seven essays on contemporary Christianity, turned out with all the phrasemaking flair of a veteran bestseller writer. "The Christian faith," she writes, "is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama...
Honest God. Like Anglican C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters'), Dorothy Sayers specializes in reducing orthodox theology to everyday terms with what is sometimes considerable shock effect. The dogma that the son of Mary was nothing less than God himself, she writes, demonstrates that God "had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and played fair . . . He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience . . . He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worth while...
...dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God . . . is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News...
...partisans, attempts to legislate Communist teachers out of existence. Yet rarely in attempts of this sort have Communists been the real losers; the real injury caused by these shotgun tactics has been to liberals and other non-Communists. The subtle method argues that no man who follows a dictatorial dogma and strict party organization is capable of objective teaching. Yet the difficulties of defining an ideology and of accurately labeling the card-holding teacher most of whom would certainly go underground would make the end result of such attempted definition by college authorities and legislators as misdirected as the crude...
...gained from an objective presentation by these men of an ideology which is now in competition with our own. At least they may bring up for re-examination some of the accepted values of the capitalist system. But any teacher, who adliores so closely for an all excluding dogma, Communism or any other, that his instruction cannot be honest is incompetent and should not teach. It is on this definition of competence, and not of party allegiance, that a man's right to teach must rest. It is a basic American concept that individuals cannot be categorized, that they must...