Word: dogma
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...church, in responding to heresies, was forced to clarify and define its doctrines, it found that not all of them could be directly traced to what the Bible explicitly says. The bodily Assumption of Mary into Heaven, a common Catholic teaching since the 6th century although not defined as dogma until 1950, is clearly not spelled out in Scripture in the way that the Annunciation is. During the 14th century, theologians tried to solve the problem by arguing that there were two channels of revelation -the Bible and tradition. After the Protestant reformers proposed that revelation is found in Scripture...
...party organizations and policies. Not until the party system broke down, in the dissolution of the Whigs, in the schism of the Democrats, was war possible." Similarly, it has been when one or another party isolated itself from the consensus-whether by reason of the cross-of-gold dogma of William Jennings Bryan in 1896 or the simplistic moralisms of Barry Goldwater in 1964-that the party system has been thrown into great inbalance...
...general remarks he was often acute. "Wanting to rationalize Catholic dogma is like wanting to derationalize mathematics." But sometimes homely: "The English have established the law of dressing in the evening as an excellent revenge on everyday reality. That quarter of an hour which each man spends at his own toilet separates all annoyances, business, and worries from the evening...
Finally Mr. Hessler writes that we "swallow whole" Leninist theory concerning imperialism. This is yellow journalism at its lowest. It carries the connotation of unthinking dupes accepting party dogma--it is not an argument--it is the vaguely masked cry of Commie, the magic word which so miraculously substitutes for thought in the U.S.A. today. It is certainly not the type of journalism that should characterize the CRIMSON. Mr. Hessler should practice what he preaches; he should fill his articles with "clear and interesting argument." Harvard-Radcliffe May 2nd Committee...
...Benediction runs counter to the theology of the council's liturgical constitution, which emphasizes that the central place of the Eucharist is only in the communal meal that is the Mass. Even more questionable to some theologians is the encyclical's assumption that the language in which a church dogma is expressed is as timeless and true as the dogma itself ? an argument that is refuted by the history of Catholic doctrinal development...