Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole world's Roman Catholic hierarchy-cardinals, patriarchs, primates, archbishops and bishops, and the abbots and superiors of certain orders. The decisions of the ecumenical council, subject only to papal confirmation, are binding on all Catholics; it was the last ecumenical council in 1869-70 that declared the dogma of papal infallibility...
...Dogma cannot be altered," Dawson explained, "but the canon law of the Eastern Rite will be recodified." Cross had speculated that this change might make unity more attractive to Eastern churches which accept most Catholic doctrine but reject papal supremacy, than to Protestant churches...
MacLeish has a universal axe to grind and he does it without the dogma or confusion which usually attend the dramatic genre. He retells the story of Job in contemporary setting and retells it in poetry. J.B. is a successful business man married to a pretty wife, father of four children and president of a bank, endowed with all the material blessings our time can bestow. And he is a "good and loyal servant" to the God who tempts him in response to the taunts of Satan. His children die by accident, war and murder; his home and his bank...
...years, and it seemed very hard for him to say that "if the conditions are right, the critical factors of society always develop. In a democracy, eventually people face the facts and the critical factors come into play. This is the strength of America, that we do question dogma...
What happens, however, when Americans take their dreams abroad is that ideals become dogma, and heralds of freedom turn into prophets spouting the froth of revelation. What Americans have lost sight of both at home and in their foreign relations is an ingredient of liberalism which Bowles repeatedly stresses: seeing the other person's point of view, tolerating minority opinion, allowing for differences of perspective. "This cold war," Bowles points out, "is hardly the one-sided affair some people would have us believe...