Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eloquent call for a new world order reverses decades of Soviet dogma and leaves it to Bush to come up with his own initiative. -- Will the promised cuts in conventional forces reduce the Soviet threat to Europe...
...than the years beginning in 1929, when Joseph Stalin forcibly collectivized agriculture. More than 10 million people are believed to have died of starvation as Stalin herded peasants onto huge state farms and marched their former bosses, the well-to-do kulaks, off to Siberia. Given history and Communist dogma, it seemed that not even Mikhail Gorbachev would dare challenge the primacy of the collective farm in the system. But last week the General Secretary did exactly that...
Those who aren't yet convinced of the CLS dogma say they leave with a better understanding of the thinking, but more questions about its applications for practice...
Roman Catholicism has just begun to grapple with the awareness that liberal scholarship may pose a threat to dogma. "Sometimes I ask my Catholic counterparts why they must make all the same mistakes in 20 years when we Protestant theologians needed over 200 years," jests Tubingen's Hengel. Conservative Catholics hope Ratzinger will strike at this threat, but the Cardinal is said to oppose a return to Rome's earlier proclamations on the Bible's complete historical reliability. He seems to prefer intellectual counteroffensives to decrees and crackdowns...
...confrontation gave the family what it wanted, said one disapproving relative: "National media attention, a platform for their religious dogma and bloodshed...