Word: dogma
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...returning, he declared "I will spend the rest of my life studying Asia." Spending the next few years as President of the Crane Plumbing Company in Chicago, he managed a few trips to Russia. Prior to the Revolution, Crane began a movement within the Orthodox Church to repeal all dogma and ritual added since the Romanoffs. Success was nearly at hand when the Bolsheviks stormed Leningrad. All Crane could salvage from his dream were the church bells which he gave to Harvard...
...well have appeared at the time as quite close to the Communist Party-perhaps even to some people as belonging to it. As I have said, some of its declared objectives seemed to me desirable. But I never was a member of the Communist Party. I never accepted Communist dogma or theory; in fact, it never made sense...
...upstream swimmer against the intellectual current prevailing at the seminary during the past two decades. These have been the "neo-orthodox" years of theological through-the-looking-glass, when the wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old fuddy-duddyism was a relaxed attitude toward dogma. Students jampack the classes of Reinhold Niebuhr to hear that man is not good and never will be, and that humans must be content to strive for conditional and imperfect ends...
...exceptions, do not follow these principles. The first four, dealing with the physical sciences, attempt to go from Ptolemy to the atomic bomb, broadly surveying the elementary facts of physics, chemistry, and astronomy. Because so much ground is covered, these facts are frequently presented to novice scientists as dogma, with little discussion of the thought that preceded them. As a result, history serves more as a humanistic garnishing than as a means for the illumination of concepts. Especially in atomic physics, the Gen. Ed. courses over-simplify so much that the student may come to feel that scientists only plug...
Catholics cited a variety of reasons for embracing Protestantism, ministers told the Herald in their replies. Among them: "Intellectual differences with Roman Catholic dogma, rebellion against [their church's] 'iron discipline' ... the simpler and more direct Protestant approach to worship." Biggest factor: "Mixed marriages, in which the Catholic party adopted the Protestant faith...