Word: dogma
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...Many a Christian, disgusted by prosaic sermons, repelled by archaic dogma and beset by honest doubts, will find renewed hope in your Dec. 25 issue. No reform-social, political or religious-filters down from the top; it rises from the bottom, out of an undeniable need. For Christians of all sects your article has brought that need into sharp focus...
David Lilienthal rode the seas of controversy and survived. Perhaps he succeeded because he was a supremely practical administrator concerned with getting a job done, attentive to down-to-earth detail, indifferent to dogma. "The short and sure road to despair and surrender is this," he wrote, "to believe that there is, somewhere, a scheme of things that will eliminate conflict, struggle, stupidity, cupidity, personal jealousy. The idea of Utopia is mischievous. as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is bom pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward...
...rearrange its cargo of dogma for the hard sailing ahead. Many Roman Catholics and Protestants feel that the primary theological task is re-translation of traditional concepts into contemporary accents, and that to toss doctrine overboard is to betray the faith. Yet an influential minority of Christian thinkers is willing to do just that. It is an unarguable axiom for the Marburg Disciples of Germany's Rudolf Bultmann that Christianity must de-mythologize-that is, translate the essential elements of the New Testament proclamation into terms that relate to man's existential conflict today, while doing away with...
...Party Hacks. Like Khrushchev and his successors, Czechoslovakia's young Communist technocrats led by Economics Professor Ota Sik, 45, are apparently more concerned with increasing production than with Marxist dogma. But while the reformers have sold their economic approach to the party's Central Committee, they have not been able to bring about a change in the regime's power structure...
...Martyr's Trial? Put that way, Pike's proposal made a measure of sense-although the sermon probably confirmed the belief of his critics that Pike is a secret Unitarian. Snapped Bishop Edward Welles of West Missouri: "When Bishop Pike presumes unilaterally to declare the dogma of the Trinity to be nonessential, one wonders if he is not surrendering to a deep-rooted psychological compulsion to become a martyr. Perhaps he yearns to be tried for heresy...