Word: dogma
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...such brakes have no place in liberal dogma. The classically liberal take on human nature is that there is no such thing: we are blank slates, innocent at birth; it is only society--capitalism, in the standard indictment--that corrupts us. Thus, Lerner claims, people get divorced because they have "internalized the ethos of the marketplace, and view the other person primarily in terms of what one can get out of the exchange...
...large part of Zyuganov's time is spent managing his unruly coalition. Whenever he says anything even mildly soft-line, his hard-core colleagues recoil. "We have an agreement allowing us to run Zyuganov free of the old dogma, to give him room to maneuver," says Kuptsov. "But there are always tensions in so large a coalition." That is perhaps why Zyuganov so often looks uncomfortable at his own rallies. When backers like Victor Anpilov, a rabble-rouser, promise to fight "to the last ounce of blood" to restore the old order, you can almost see Zyuganov wince...
...scholars sought to give voice to the Jesus they detected suppressed beneath the dogma. They did not, however, all detect the same Jesus. Harvard's Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, for example, has located a feminist paragon who saw God as Sophia (Wisdom) and himself as her spokesperson; Fiorenza contends the later church cloaked Jesus in the Christological garb as the Son of God. Crossan, relying heavily on the apocryphal Gospels of Thomas and Peter and the secret Gospel of Mark, has posited a "Mediterranean Jewish peasant...
...Five Gospels said it loud and proud. An introduction announced that "the Christ of creed and dogma, who had been firmly in place in the Middle Ages, can no longer command the assent of those who have seen the heavens through Galileo's telescope." The Seminarians circulated papers among themselves and met twice a year to vote on more than 2,000 separate pieces of scripture. They conceived a mediagenic means of voting: for each Gospel verse, each voter dropped a plastic bead in a bucket. The bead's color signified the scholar's opinion. The book quoted one participant...
...then detailed Islamic practices which tended to raise the status of women during the early stages of the religion's development. But now, she said, leaders are misinterpreting Islamic religious dogma...