Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of Pope Paul's creeping modernization of the church, the Holy Office has now sent an instruction to all Catholic bishops easing up on the old restrictions. The letter reaffirms the church's traditional preference for burial, but notes that there is no unchangeable dogma forbidding cremation, which thus can be authorized where national custom, economics or hygiene make it necessary...
...there is any truth held to be self-evident, it is that Thomas Jefferson was the father of American liberties. Anyone doubting the dogma, like Henry Adams or Albert Beveridge, has been dismissed as a crotchety old conservative. Now a Brandeis University historian has compared Jefferson's actions with his glowing words, and found the two a chasm apart "Jefferson's pen," writes Leonard Levy, "was mightier than his practice...
Like many of us who have grown up Catholics, he finds Latin Scholasticism--the endless manipulation of dogma, the recitation of catechism--empty and banal. And yet he sees no comfort in what he calls the "moral relativism" that so dominates the social sciences and is embodied in the humanities by the New Criticism...
...Know Thyself." Boston Hematologist Dr. William Dameshek of the Tufts-New England Medical Center pioneered the concept of autoimmune disease. It has long been accepted dogma that in ordinary healthy immune reactions the body is using a birthright of every living creature. This is a set of biochemical sentries which raise an alarm when the body is invaded by a foreign substance, especially a protein, so that the system can make antibody to neutralize the invader. "Normally," says Dr. Dameshek, "the body has safeguards so it can recognize 'self as opposed to 'not-self,' and it will...
...better of the argument-at least on paper points. But Khrushchev argues effectively that Marxism is not a fixed dogma, but a method that must be applied to different conditions of each era-for instance, to the nuclear age, which drastically changes the nature of war. It is not enough simply to "get out the book and look up what Vladimir Ilyich said. We must do our own thinking, study life diligently and analyze the contemporary setting...