Word: dogmas
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...loss of power to distinguish fact from fiction." The three results of this Anglo-Saxon Protestantism are: a reversion to an earlier Christianity than the Catholic, an inspiration of moral and political reform, and a dependence on the religious witness of the inner man rather than the dogma of the church. Thus Protestantism is less hampered than Catholicism in dealing with advances in philosophy, science or gov- ernment-because individuals can adjust more quickly than institutions, and the Papal syllabus shows no inclination to adjust anyway. Clericalism in government, he says, "is more like a permanent conspiracy than a dominant...
Seven hundred years ago Thomas Aquinas built a system of dogma on the doctrine that Christianity is truth, that all philosophy which is true is Christian, and that all Christianity which is not true philosophy is not Christianity...
...Tyrrell in England, and Father Zahm in America were promptly excommunicated. Whether or not the Vatican has merely scotched the snake, modernism (in the " dangerous " sense) is not now visible within its broad domains. Hilaire Belloc, brilliant Catholic now visiting America, tells the world it needs Authority, which means dogma personified by the Pope. G. K. Chesterton was converted to Roman Catholicism because of its reasonableness : " Dogma is a friend to religion...
People are tired of theological dogma; they are equally tired of cold science. Dogma, science and religion ?these three, and the greatest of these is religion...
...thought is of no consequence. A great truth in itself, but one which leads by a treacherous descent to the error of supposing that the facts are more important than the thought, that they are the only things that count. The best among the students rebel against this narrow dogma; a number, I fear, accept it implicitly as indisputable...