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...life, he received a rare second "call'' to return to mission work. In England, he took over a mission that had only 10,000 members, a scattering of rundown churches, 160 proselytizers. Woodbury called for more missionaries from Salt Lake City, pioneered a cram course in Mormon dogma that reduced the prebaptism indoctrination time from weeks to days. To spur hard-working missionaries toward greater efforts, Woodbury coined football-style "yells"' and such upbeat slogans as "Have Baptism, Will Travel.'' Mormons who exceeded their quotas of baptisms were allowed into an "Extra Mile Club...
...Throat. In these ecumenical times, argued Father Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., professor of patristic theology at the Jesuit Seminary in Woodstock, Md., theologians are obliged to look harder at the issues that divide Christians. "For the bone that sticks in the Protestant throat," he said, "is Scripture v. dogma, the original message of salvation from the mouth of God and the promulgation of infallible propositions. It is this passage, this seemingly lyric leap from Scripture to dogma, and from dogma to dogma, that scandalizes the Protestant theologian...
Protestant theologians know that in Catholic belief (as in their own) the public revelation of God ended with the death of the last apostle. But Catholics now explicitly accept as dogma certain things that their forefathers did not. "For all his good will," says Burghardt, "the non-Catholic scholar does not see that any of the sacred authors speak of the Assumption of Our Lady, and yet the Assumption was declared revealed truth...
...Logic in Dogma. In the past, Catholic theologians have been content to justify this dogmatic development by saying that the church has the duty to explain and unfold those things that may be hidden, or implicit, within Christ's teaching. But, asks Burghardt: "Is a dogma always logically implicit in revelation? Do I always make it explicit by human logic? Is all God's revelation discoverable in Scripture? If the total vision is in Scripture, just how is it there? In clear propositions? In logical implications? If only part of Mariology is Biblically based, where is the remnant...
Humanists are experimentalists, Rafton pointed out. Freed from an "ox-cart religion in a jot ago," They "don't have to stick with a dogma," he said...