Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catholicism is different from most of the religions represented at Harvard--different in its stress on tradition and dogma, and also in its claim to catholicity. There is an undeniable fascination for the agnostic of a positive faith--an attraction which may be disliked but cannot be denied. Skepticism may pose a threat to the Catholic's faith, but Catholicism, on the other hand, is an open threat to the skeptic, because it holds forth hope...
Reshaping of religious beliefs at Harvard usually follows the second approach, the path of intellectualism. Even though many Protestant doctrines cannot be justified rationally, students still make the effort to square irrational dogma with a pragmatic Harvard education...
...Side, a cafe in Harlem, a cafe and a farm near Atlanta, also bought himself a luxurious, 18-room house near the University of Chicago. He founded "Universities of Islam" in Chicago and Detroit (the latter accredited by the local school board through the ninth grade) to teach his dogma to children and teenagers. Sample from his official temple creed: "There is no good in white men. All are the children of the devil...
...enforce any civil law, even when the law conflicts with ecclesiastical law or dogma of the church...
...Bible. To Barth the Biblical message is "thrown like a stone" at man, not accommodated to his existential agonies. Tillich's "Unconditional" term for God, Barth has called "a frigid monstrosity." And U.S. Theologian Nels F.S. Ferré feels that Tillich's vuse of traditional Christian dogma makes him "the most dangerous theological leader alive...