Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missionary Task? Dr. Michael Schmaus, professor of Catholic dogma at the University of Munich, agrees that there is nothing in Christian teaching to deny the existence of unearthly rational beings. Christ, he writes, is certainly their head, for according to St. Paul, He is the head of the universe. But "the question remains open whether He also has the significance of Redeemer for them. That in turn depends on whether these rational creatures have sinned and whether, like mankind, they need redeeming...
...Pupil. The truth was that the Kremlin, with or without lying help from the late Beria, had known exactly what Tito was up to all these years. Born in Yugoslavia, trained in Yugoslavia, admired and hated in Yugoslavia, Tito owed the Russians little except a postgraduate schooling in Marxist dogma and Communist deceit. He had run his own war with little help or advice; he planned to run his own peace...
World War II has left behind it no trace of either the gaieties or the grim, radical dogma that swept Britain after World War I. Youth today is not so much flaming to be free as burning to acquire discipline. It was Wyndham Lewis' ferocious hatred of what he called "emotionally excited, closely-packed, heavily-standardized mass-units acting in a blond ecstatic unison" that caused his unpopularity in the '305. although he himself acted in unison of a sort with the Hitler regime-but only for a very brief spell...
...Gwirtzman inconsistent? In answering this question, I do not see why we must restrict ourselves to one individual. The answer can as well apply to many others--who in their attempt to think "freely" are in reality conforming to a dogma--who in their attempt to be different, look strangely and disgustingly alike. The basic inconsistency of which I speak is the Liberals insistence of fair play when he is at bat, and the disregard of this ethic when an opponent like Mr. Buckley takes his turn at the plate. One example--and there are many others--of the former...
...greatly fear one thing. If men will not clothe the bare framework of science with the warm garments of true humanism, they will end up by making machines their god and mathematics their only dogma. The rising paganism of the western world will make our civilization cold as interstellar spaces, ruthless as the atoms which smash each other...