Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pike & Dogma...
...traditional position of the church has been to promulgate dogma, but we live in a day when dogma is a dirty word and to call a person dogmatic means he has a narrow, closed mind. Pike, thank God, has an open mind, a facile, exciting mind, and if he dares suggest we re-examine the meaning of some of those traditional words, he is trying to speak to the people of today, and we say "God bless him" for trying...
...many of the opponents of the war it is impossible to have any meaningful dialogue in a context which involves a non-select audience. Even if Robert Scheer had debated McNamara it is doubtful that such a meeting could have occurred without a disruptive group insisting upon their dogma as the revealed truth. It is true that this is not a time to stress manners; but on the other hand a certain amount of that which we call "courtesy" is essential in order to have that which we call "debate." CHARLES MARTIN...
Easily the most visible of the doubters - and the near heretic - is James Albert Pike, 53, the recently resigned Episcopal Bishop of California. There is hardly a dogma in the creed that Pike has not at one time or another denied. In doing so he has stirred up something new on the American scene...
...Chicago Divinity School. "They're discussing the existence of God. And if there's no God, you don't have to argue about any of the other doctrines." The big concern of still others is the social role of the church. More important than questioning old dogma, says the World Council of Churches' Albert van den Heuvel, is the task of creating a new Christian ethic that can adequately deal with such mammoth issues as world hunger, racial equality...