Word: dogmas
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Religion is not only certainty, but a confused striving for truth; not only the imposition of dogma, but the open, undiscriminating act of mercy. And certainly secular societies have not managed to avoid war or cruelty. Yet the paradox of religion-at-war remains shocking...
...they were the laws of God. No longer. In matters of faith as well as morals, Catholics seem to be making up their own minds. The Greeley study, for example, shows that only 37% of U.S. Catholics fully accept the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope-a dogma solemnly defined by the First Vatican Council...
...Such dogma tends to remind the reader of a remark attributed to the father of analysis: that while a cigar was a phallus it was also a cigar. The humor of Sneezy, Dopey and Doc, the excursions of Hansel cannot be reduced to Freudian simples. The wolf in Little Red Riding Hood is more than the "potentially destructive tendencies of the id"; he is a wolf as well. Of course a child walks in a giant's world. Of course boys and girls dream of transformations into wondrous and powerful creatures, i.e., adults. Of course the tears and truths...
...THIS POINT I must confess a certain bias in this review. I have long admired Skinner and his philosophy. He holds out to the uninitiated a few reasonable axioms. Once you swallow them--as I did--you are swept along by a dogma as internally consistent and all-encompassing as Marxism. With precision and specificity, Skinner tackles the philosophical dilemmas of the ages--free will, consciousness, and "the good." But the person Skinner leaves us with is a mere puppet, without purpose and dignity. He speaks of the self as nothing more than "the small part of the universe which...
...main problem with the book of Godspell is that the New Testament parables, linked though they are to the archetypal comic myth, are not themselves intrinsically funny. To convert dogma into entertainment, it's up to the director to make them so. Embellishing the original script with a few Harvard touches, Manulis marches his cast through a series of mimes, impressions and slapstick sequences in a laudable effort to compensate for the thinness of the material...