Word: dogma
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...hard for a writer in the Western tradition to understand the atmosphere of Russia," admitted Novelist Thomas Mann, "hard for him to understand a man like Shostakovich kneeling down before the authorities. And yet, after all, in the Middle Ages artists lived under the dogma of the church and felt relatively free. It is possible-is it possible?-for an artist to function within a frame of philosophy .whose limits cannot be transcended ... I don't know...
...Christian Bore. Yet, complains Author Sayers, dullness is just the epithet people most often apply to dogma, simply because the churches have lately tended to subordinate dogma to a vague, generalized effulgence of sweetness and light. To demonstrate, she concocts a short examination paper with answers that might be expected from the ordinary layman...
...between the two. Creed or Chaos (Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is a collection of seven essays on contemporary Christianity, turned out with all the phrasemaking flair of a veteran bestseller writer. "The Christian faith," she writes, "is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama...
Honest God. Like Anglican C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters'), Dorothy Sayers specializes in reducing orthodox theology to everyday terms with what is sometimes considerable shock effect. The dogma that the son of Mary was nothing less than God himself, she writes, demonstrates that God "had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and played fair . . . He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience . . . He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worth while...
...dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God . . . is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News...