Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revelations. Our own country is filling up with people of political ambitions who claim to have God's ear. Some spread the gospel of Fundamentalism. Others preach intolerance and hate to giddy television audiences. The preachers smile quite well. These extremists have power, which derives less from dogma than from a deep public need to retrieve the values and comforts of belief. The preachers will be rejected eventually, but the need will survive. It is that need that lies below the speed of the times, swimming in the opposite direction of science and technology...
...cultural gulf between Rome and the U.S. exacerbates the conflict. While the American bishops' starting point tends to be democracy within the church, Rome is concerned first and foremost with religious dogma. According to one Vatican official, U.S. Catholics are heavily influenced by their culture and media, which, to the Pope, create a "society of immediate gratification," the exact opposite of John Paul's ethic of "service and commitment." A final irritant is American Catholics' penchant for airing disputes in public...
...Deng regime is based on incentives and social advances, but is unaffected by dogma," he said...
...SEEN the future of American higher education, and it is something called "competency-based learning." In the bad old days, switch-wielding professors demanded rote memorization of facts and the ideas of others. But to meet the challenges of a new era, Bok writes, a "critical mind, free of dogma, may be the most important product of education...
...SEEN the future of American higher education and it is something called "competency-based learning." In the old days, colleges stressed rote memorization of knowledge and ideas. But to meet the challenges of today, Bok writes, a "critical mind, free of dogma, may be the most important product of education...