Word: dogma
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...medicine and surgery, the 2,000 visitors at the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association heard papers and discussions on neuropsychiatry, gynecology, proctology, techniques in brain surgery. But stamping them as "sectarian," within the definition of the American Medical Association, was their obsession with the memory and dogma of osteopathy's founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, whose life and work were endlessly eulogized...
Georges Barrois, born into a Roman Catholic family in Charleville, France, became a Dominican monk and was ordained a priest when he was 25. In 1941, after 18 years as a priest, and some long, painful self-questioning about problems of dogma, he became a Protestant, later married. Now teaching theology and biblical archeology at Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Barrois has written occasionally about his change of faith, but usually in a key apparently set to avoid controversy with Catholics...
...sexual pleasure with Julia, he also drags her with him into the underground movement-only to find that it is being run by the Oceanian bosses precisely as a trap for would-be rebels. In the torture chambers of the Ministry of Love he discovers how refined totalitarian dogma has become since the primitive days of Hitler and Stalin. No longer do party leaders pretend that they seized power for idealistic reasons and in the hope of creating a better world. Power is now frankly an end in itself. "God is power," explains the smiling, priestly torturer. Thus...
...book. Unfortunately its facts are not always as clearly stated as their sources. In a chapter, "Tolerance, Appeasement and Freedom," Mr. Blanshard criticizes the Knights of Columbus for committing "the fallacy of irrelevant conclusion." This means that they deny some misconception very close to one of the "unpopular" Church dogmas in order to deceive people into believing that the Church upholds American principles (and also denies the dogma). When the Knights of Columbus say that it is an "erroneous idea" to believe non-Catholic marriages are invalid, they are knocking over a straw man. The Church teaches (horror of horrors...
...many "big names" in the party, the Communists do not demand blind obedience to party policies. Second, even if all Communists surrendered their "intellectual integrity," there are large areas of learning where politics is completely irrelevant. An ardent party-liner in the field of government is one thing--his dogma could well make him incompetent to teach objectively--but a party-liner in Spanish or psychology or Old English is an entirely different case...