Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the noisy Bevanites, few of whom work with their hands, still clung to the Marxist dogma that the state alone must own "the means of production." They were steamrollered at Margate by the trade-union mass that is the heart (and the bankroll) of British Socialism...
...encyclical letter titled Fulgens Corona (The Radiant Crown), Pope Pius XII proclaimed the year 1954 (from December 1953 to December 1954) a Marian Year, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The Marian Year will be marked by special ceremonies, and Roman Catholics everywhere were urged to concentrate their prayers on three main subjects: world peace, church unity, and "the church of silence"-Catholics who live behind the Iron Curtain under fear and persecution for their faith...
...were critical of capitalism were ... too uncritical of the Marxist alternative." This was true, says Niebuhr, even of those who "rejected the Communist version of Marxism" and sought "democratic Marxism." Niebuhr is 'ready to confess to his complicity in these errors," but is still against "the ridiculous dogma of laissez faire...
...Devil Sex. Up to this point, Author Buck handles her material nicely, bringing the core of religion steadily closer to the reader. Then, suddenly, she gives out. The conclusion she wants to reach is that neither dollars nor Christian dogma can bridge the U.S.-Indian gap; there must be intermarriage between the two peoples and agreement that all religions are equally valid, equally tenable. It is sex which prevents her from putting over this conclusion properly. The old devil has hovered on the fringes all through Come, My Beloved, and when he hears the magic word "intermarriage," he hops boldly...
...with the Orange Presbytery, which had removed him from his pulpit for showing too little regard for Presbyterian doctrine (TIME, Feb. 23). Announced Jones, after the Presbytery voted down his request for a change-of-venue appeal: he was resigning from the church's ministry. "I cannot place dogma above Christianity ... I believe [the Christian's] first loyalty is not to his denomination but to the church universal...