Word: dogma
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...that face, for it was something new under the sun. The stubborn fact about the face of Stalin was that it was less the face of a man than of a historic force. It was the face of the first proletarian Bolshevik to become unquestioned lawgiver and dispenser of dogma to a party whose 4,600,000 members were bound to absolute obedience by an iron-clad discipline. It was also the face of the absolute ruler of some 180,000,000 people of 170 nationalities, living in one-sixth of the earth's surface, in a socialist empire...
Some critics charged that Stalin had ceased, paradoxically, to be a revolutionist, at the moment when the Communist revolution was most successful. If it suited his present purposes, Stalin might have reminded his critics that he was the author of Russia's two official volumes of orthodox dogma: The History of the Communist Party and Leninism. Leninism is a best-seller (3,000,000 copies were sold a week after publication...
Most of John Bricker's gospel was compounded of dogma which Republicans have used with dulling regularity; he called upon the citizenry to consider the horrible facts of the public debt, and New Deal bureaus, and unblushingly cried out a warning against U.S. Communists. But with John Bricker, as with Billy Sunday, it was delivery rather than text which filled the big tent...
...vivid description of a child dead at birth gives way to his account of his religious training: "Especially present to me is the very philosophic dogma that God is everywhere, by His essence, by His presence and by His power; of which, however, the first clause has always remained obscure to me. . . . But the other two clauses are luminous, and have taught me from the first to conceive omnificent power and eternal truth. ... I have reasserted them, in my mature philosophy. . . . They belong to human sanity, to human orthodoxy; I wish to cling to that, no matter from what source...
Democracy and Dogma. In Christian theology Chesterton found "the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy," and the dogmatic justification of many of his social and political views. In the medieval church he saw the protector of the small landowner and the life of individual intensity. "There is no basis for democracy," he concluded, "except in a dogma about the divine origin of man." Chesterton's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1922 (his priest, Father O'Connor, was the model for Detective Father Brown) was a sensation in England...