Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mainstream churches have tried in various ways to adapt themselves to a secular age. The Roman Catholic Church made its liturgy accessible in the vernacular and turned increasingly from saving souls to saving society. The major Protestant denominations also increasingly emphasized social activism and tried to dilute dogma to accommodate 20th century rationality and diversity. Churches not only permitted the ordination of women -- long overdue -- but are seriously debating the ordination of homosexuals and the sanctioning of homosexual marriages. Fin de siecle...
Although its model of politics is far from Universally accepted outside Cambridge. Harvard's Rational Choice Church doesn't seem to like those who stray from its dogma. It's impossible to determine how much power the orthodox rationalists have over tenure decisions. But Peterson's tenure bid, it is safe to say, was not helped by his view of politics--a view that happens to be heretical in some of Littauer's plusher offices...
...attributes this success to the database's open-ended possibilities for creativity and exploration, rather than its maintenance of academic dogma, both in method and content. Crane believes that most students are "sick of text books and canned answer...
...defies the early punditry that imprisoned Tsongas in the "second tier" of prospects. He is tunneling out of that dungeon with a gritty consistency that trashes conventional wisdom. His self-imposed "pro- business Democrat" label alienates many liberals, but Tsongas is gaining support among others by departing from party dogma. "They love employment," Tsongas says of traditional Democrats. "It's the employers they can't stand. They have never understood the link." Unions want a new law to protect the jobs of strikers. Tsongas opposes it on the ground that it would encourage confrontation. Most of the candidates favor...
That sounds familiar -- and, sure enough, he used it in his seminal book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, to describe one of his early buildings. Complexity and Contradiction was a galvanizing manifesto, liberating architects from Modernist, minimalist dogma. "Less is a bore," Venturi declared, meaning that it was time to begin using ornament in buildings again. And also, "Main Street is almost all right," meaning that familiar, off-the-shelf architectural forms also deserved to be revived. The past could be a rich source of inspiration for contemporary architects. Relax, Venturi told his snobbish profession, and enjoy the old-fashioned...