Word: dogma
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...that standard, Roman Catholicism is surely alive and well. Unbothered by papal warnings against dissent and rebellion, Catholic theologians are today publicly questioning established dogma in a way that might have earned them excommunication in the 19th century and execution in the 16th. Several Dutch thinkers, for example, have tried to redefine the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist, which was made dogma at the Council of Trent; others have proposed radical new ideas on original sin (TIME, March 21). Even the conventional concepts of God, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ and the reality of his Resurrection are considered...
...NOBODY likes a smart-ass, remember that," someone over thirty told me last summer. I had doubts about the dogma even then, but now I'm certain that it's false. James Simon Kunen, 20 years old and a sometimes Columbia revolutionary, is a smart-ass if ever there was one, and Time, The New Republic, Newsweek, and the New York Times all love him and his first book, The Strawberry Statement...
...really prefer bloodshed to debate? Quick dictates to slow law? This democracy made possible a great revolution in the past 35 years (a profound transfer of power, a distribution of wealth, an improvement of living and health) without "liquidating" millions, without suppressing free speech, without the obscenities of dogma enforced by terror...
...taught that human perfection was obtainable by civic means. There is an opposite, more severe, tragic tradition that he identifies with the moral absolutism of Saint Augustine. One or other of these disparate attitudes may be detected by Burgess in almost any important English literary works. Such rigorous philosophical dogma, inherited from a Catholic education, is unexpected in English criticism, which is not normally ideological although the Burgess polarities have been roughly characterized as Cavalier and Roundhead. Yet Burgess's prose never seems plodding despite his spiritual preoccupations. In any case, he is the kind of man who could...
...third lecture he reproached revolutionaries for falling victim "to an old old and naive doctrine--that man is naturally good, decent, humane, just and honorable, but that corrupt and wicked institutions have transformed the noble savage into a civilized monster." The only way to reconcile these two sets of dogma is to assume that Gardner, despite the more-democratic-than-thou air he assumed toward radicals, believes that the mass of mankind is bumbling and even a bit vicious, and that society will collapse unless its machinery is run by highminded and extraordinarily competent men like...