Word: dogma
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...Best of Human Nature." In 1920, when he began what he calls a "Jewish ecumenical movement," Dr. Kaplan found Jewish congregations in the U.S. split into three major groups: the Orthodox, which demands strict observance of scriptural laws; the Reform, which emphasizes broad ethical concepts at the expense of dogma, and the Conservative, a halfway house between the other two. Although he himself became associated with the Conservatives, Dr. Kaplan has tried to weld the three groups together on a broad basis of "peoplehood" rather than theological doctrine. "It does not matter," he says, "whether the community is Orthodox, Conservative...
...could ask for." If "one" is a present or past editor of the Lampoon (and judging by this issue there is a little need to separate the two) then this is a valid generalization. But for the majority of us, Lampy is too concerned with patting his own dogma to worry about exposing others...
...over and so is the thrill of adventure that went with it. In February the Labor government nationalized steel, but it was a halfhearted gesture, made without conviction. In the final debates, steel nationalization was not argued as a good or necessary step but defended as a perseverance in dogma. One Socialist minister, as doctrinaire as they come, conceded over a plate of venison that all the other nationalization proposals (such as sugar) were only so much window dressing in the last election...
Psychology is important in pastoral counseling, but theology is important too, according to William E. Hulme, assistant professor of Christianity at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Writing in this week's Christian Century, Lutheran Hulme feels that ministers are often so afraid of frightening people away with dogma that they fail to take advantage of its therapeutic possibilities...
...Especially (though Msgr. Galletto did not mention this possibility) so soon after the Assumption of the Virgin Mary became a dogma...