Word: dogma
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...Middle Ages, when it was dangerous to question Christian dogma, which held that the earth was the center of the universe and that other worlds were lifeless, the Polish astronomer Copernicus and his followers thought otherwise. Although he prudently did not publish his epic work On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies until he lay on his deathbed, Copernicus dealt the earth-centered universe of Ptolemy its final blow. After years of observations, he concluded it was the sun?and not the earth?that occupied center stage; the earth, he said, was simply one of several planets that spun around...
...power of mass media. Today, our media have brought us to the brink of total cultural, regional homogeneity, and it would seem that the future of American folk music is the worse for it. Folk culture is a funky flower which wilts easily under the harsh glare of critical dogma...
...Board of Economists: "We need a hell of a big push on the economy through increased Government spending. This would lead to greater demand, lower unemployment, higher plant utilization and productivity, and give us a better chance to fight inflation." That is the reverse of traditional economic dogma, which holds that a rapid business expansion creates the danger of feeding inflation-but traditional economic dogmas do not seem to be working any more...
Knives and Artichokes. No Italian painter less resembled the Renaissance ideal of the gentleman genius than Caravaggio. His luck was as foul as his temper. He was in some ways the first Bohemian artist, and he thrashed about in the dogma-bound and ceremonious society of Counter-Reformation Rome like a beast in a net. In 1604 Caravaggio was haled into court for assaulting a Roman waiter who had brought him a dish of artichokes, six cooked in oil and six in butter. Caravaggio asked which were which. "Taste them," retorted the waiter, "and you will see." Caravaggio jumped...
Celibacy, birth control, marriage laws and other matters of dogma and discipline may be in the forefront, but the real crisis in the church is one of authority-and whether the government of the church can still command it in the minds of many Catholics. "Authority belongs to those who have authentic voices," writes Maryknoll Psychologist Eugene C. Kennedy in a new book, In the Spirit, in the Flesh, "those who speak to the experience and hopes of mankind...