Word: dogma
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...brief dalliance with a sect prophesying the imminent Second Coming), and led the fight against Rome, firing off pamphlets informing readers that a "Roman Catholic may any day have the duty of shooting his sovereign imposed on him" and that celibacy was a "myth without basis in Catholic dogma or fact...
Such Biblical and Talmudic images come naturally to Kovarsky, who was steeped in Jewish dogma and tradition during his childhood in Vilna, Lithuania, was sent to Palestine at 17. His first direct contact with the traditions of his forefathers came while he was working in a kibbutz (collective settlement). There he found a fellow laborer, a Yemenite Jew named Zachariah. who could describe such legendary objects as the ancient Tabernacle so vividly that young Yehoshua was able to draw them. After finishing his art education in Paris, Kovarsky went back to Israel, isolated himself to paint in the ancient city...
Four centuries ago, Richard Hooker, speaking from the pulpit, said that "Rule there cannot be which public approbation has not made so." Firm adherence to this principle must be reiterated occasionally. Mr. Lodge, from a large pulpit, has underscored the dogma in unequivocal terms. Such explicit assertion is essential, for illegality thrives upon that silence which is often interpreted as tacit assent...
...show how. Secondly, he said the bold iconoclasm of modern literature is arousing the Church from its dogmatic slumbers, and he failed to state exactly what the nature of this change of heart and where it is leading. To begin with, he dealt glibly with such ideas as dogma and faith, and then to make matters more confusing, he made value judgments of dogma and faith without saying so and without thoughtful awareness of doing...
Businessmen have trouble defining the new conservatism because it represents a departure from dogma, from the rigid principles and prejudices of classic conservatism. As Yale Economist Henry C. wrote, those who voted for "an other four years of conservatism" this month were endorsing "something felt, rather than clearly seen. Conservatism is an attitude, an approach, more than a specific set of doctrines. Its specific policies must change with the times-anything else would be ossification, not conservatism. And conservatism must flow from convictions if it is to be more than defense of vested interests...