Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robbins asserts, and introduces evidence tending to show, that Eliot's work since The Waste Land has been marked more by the exposition of political reaction and religious dogma than by any genuine atatempt to write poetry, drama, or criticism...
...Cardinal, the miraculous vision of Fátima was repeated for Pope Pius XII: "The Holy Father turned his gaze from the Vatican gardens toward the sun, and there was renewed for his eyes the miracle of this valley." Nov. 1 was the day the Pope proclaimed the dogma of the bodily ascension of the Virgin Mary into Heaven...
Zion Trouble. In exchanging the life of a teacher for that of an administrator, Finkelstein was true to one of the deepest currents of his faith. For Judaism is a this-worldly rather than an other-worldly religion; its basis is action rather than dogma. Obedience to the Law is far more important than belief. For the Law is truth set forth in terms of action...
...Waiting for God (Putnam; $3.50), her spiritual autobiography is published in English for the first time. Excerpts: ¶ "The function of the church as the collective keeper of dogma is indispensable . .. But she is guilty of an abuse of power when she claims to force love and intelligence to model their language upon her own. This abuse of power is not of God. It comes from the natural tendency of every form of collectivism, without exception, to abuse power." ¶ "It is in affliction itself that the splendor of God's mercy shines, from its very depths...
Roman Catholics who went to Mass on the Feast of the Assumption this week found a new order of service. Special texts have been added to the liturgy in recognition of the new dogma of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption into heaven...