Word: dogma
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...will hear about it from the pulpit for years to come. Whether he will be moved by what he hears is another question, for Dr. Niebuhr belligerently repudiates liberalism's "pathetic eagerness" to justify itself to the modern mind. He foresees the unpopularity of his dogma, concedes that little short of world catastrophe can make Babbitt think of himself as a sinner or worry about the problem...
...execution of the King, and Danton out of the way, Robespierre began to suffer from the dictators' disease-the belief that he was an indispensable man. "His respect for the people-his belief that the voice of the people is the Voice of God-has hardened into a dogma, which in his heart, he no longer believes. What he believes is that Virtue was always in the minority.' " The next step would be a police state to enforce the virtuous minority's will oh the unvirtuous majority...
...There is an inherent antithesis between the unity of the medieval life and the chaos of the individualistic spirit of the renaissance. There is an antithesis between a closed system of coherent culture and a system of rampant individualism, between dogma and free inquiry; you may have the one or the other. But you are chasing rainbows if you think you think you can have them both...
...There is an inherent antithesis between the unity of medieval life and chaos of the individualistic spirit of the Renaissance. There is an antitheses between a closed system of coherent culture and a system of rampant individualism, between dogma and free inquiry; you may have the one or the other. But you are chasing rainbows if you think you can have them both...
Among those principles, which contribute to what he described as "the golden mean between destructive criticism and complacent dogma," the President included the civil liberties which are protected by the Bill of Rights, the "political machinery which enables the mass of the people to decide through elected representatives on major issues," and the protection of minority rights...