Word: dogma
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...twentieth century intellectuals who has run the gamut of atheism, socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly and therefore transient love. The similar position that the philosophic poet and man of letters, George Santayana, has taken in the past ten years may clarify what this miracle play is trying to express. Santayana...
...Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism (the whirlpool of Mysticism). Ulysses' slaying of Penelope's suitors has its counterpart in Bloom's casting from his mind scruples and false sentiment about himself and Molly. Almost every detail of the Odyssey's action can be found, in disguised form, in Ulysses...
...session with the Legion makes them think twice before they demand that the theatres and the distilleries should be expunged as unholy in the rural theology. It gives them vinous experience not in barns but on lounges, and frees them from the enchantment of the pulp presses. Though its dogma and its excesses may be appalling enough, a liberal dose of Legion conventions at the right time would have saved us from the Mann Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. POLLUX...
...state, the Chancellor argued, is protecting German Protestants against Jews and Bolsheviks. "Every political evolution affects churches," he cried. "Only insane people believe that the triumph of Communism in German)' would have left the Catholic or the Protestant churches untouched! . . . I am not interested in questions of faith, dogma or teaching. . . . Superseding these are problems which force the Leader of the state to take a hand...
...such a state of rapid development that next year may find a new set of problems which will call for new treatment. It can, however, be confidently concluded that if such changes do occur Professor Williams, to a greater degree than most economists, will not be restrained by dogma and tradition from treating the new conditions in a spirit both open-minded and critical