Word: dogma
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...decline of dogma is neither recent nor remarkable. Thomas Jefferson, who claimed "I am a sect in myself" and Thomas Paine, who observed "My mind is my own church" set the tone for it. Today, dogma is rejected largely by the young, particularly those of us who have come of age in the 1960s. It was with awe and hope that we first heard the echoes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's bomb-rocked prison. There, the 37-year-old theologian urged man to find Christ at the "center of life" by participating in the struggles of the world. This...
Decline of Dogma...
Help Without Dogma. The Marists now have a regular attendance of 200 Catholic youngsters-half of La Porte's high school Catholic population-as well as 50 from other faiths. Says Frank Christian, 18, a senior and a Catholic: "I used to have nun-phobia because I had such a bad time in Catholic grade schools. But the brothers have got me involved in the church again." Adds Jim Baumer, 18, an Episcopalian: "The brothers help you without any dogma...
...scientific and highly qualified management." It stopped short of the outright democratization that many Czechoslovaks are clamoring for, and made abundantly clear the Communist Party's unwillingness to permit challenges as yet to its dominant political role. Nonetheless, the remarkable document officially retired many bits of Marxist dogma and dealt a staggering blow to the institutions of the police state...
Even in the Roman Catholic Church, which has traditionally upheld the immutability of dogma, there is widespread recognition by theologians that all formulas of faith are man's frail and imperfect vessels for carrying God's truth, and are forever in need of reformulation. In the light of Christianity's need to respond to the human needs of the earth, many of these ancient formulas hardly seem worth rethinking. "The central axis of religious concern," notes Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "has shifted from matters of ultimate 'salvation,' and of heaven...