Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideology of Communism which has inspired many men with intense loyalty and discipline-even distant Malayans in loincloths and atomic scientists in blue serge suits. This dogma, to most Western eyes, is a thick, grey, gummy paste, but it does cement. No secular government in history has allotted such importance to it as an ingredient of government...
This marked the first public display of a wondrously effective device-the canonization of Lenin-to which Stalin held and preserved all the patents. It enabled Stalin to accuse his enemies not of disagreeing with Stalin, but of disobedience to the gospel of Marxist-Leninism, a monolithic dogma which he could quote, interpret or pervert to meet any need...
...flery white-haired preacher turned the Center into a school to teach his dogma. He "carried his message to the people" in talks on the Boston Common and in books. When he ignored Archbishop Cushing's order to be silent in 1949, he was deprived of his priestly functions and expelled from the Jesuit Society, and St. Benedict's was placed under interdict...
Noah Was Warned. Through the years, the formula for Voice of Prophecy has changed very little. Evangelist Richards steers clear of specific Adventist dogma,* concentrates instead on basic talks about the Bible, interspersed with oldtime hymns sung by the King's Heralds, a male quartet. He knows his Bible well-he has read it cover to cover 31 times-and his sermons are highly concrete discussions of the Bible's application to daily life. Says he: "We believe that there are things in the Bible that prophesy what is happening today and that tell of the coming...
...fighting off formula-men, a traditional function of Harvard presidents, has had much to do with the spirit of inquiry that abounds at Harvard. This is a more arduous task than one might imagine, for at present the nation's intellectual brew is filled with unusual amounts of dogma and intolerance...