Word: dogmas
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...peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first one class and then another for freedom ended in nothing. All the sadder was this sixteenth century because even the great man who had called the struggle of faith against dogma into being was himself led away by the strong force of circumstances from the ideas of his early manhood, and brought to sacrifice freedom to authority...
...political right is absolute and of universal application and the dogma that suffrage is a natural right has no support either in reason or experience.- Forum...
...there was no separate pries ly order and every Christian was his own priest, and the clergy were only appointed to perform certain functions as the delegates of the congregation. The chosen priest is equal to the ordained, and the divine institution of episcopacy must follow after the kindred dogma of the divine right of kings, otherwise there can be no liberty in the church...
These, very hurriedly suggested, are the four: The enlargement of discipline, the enlargement of experience, the enlargement of dogma, the enlargement of life; these are the successive openings of the envelopes which have enclosed the thought and action of the college until at last it stands free to draw its inspiration from, and to exercise its influence upon the whole activity...
...Puritans, in which the discipline of the Puritans had floated as the part floats in the whole. The discipline of the Puritans felt that which was pressed on was tempted by it, and at last broke open in the attempt to find it. Experience was larger than Whitfield. Dogma was larger than Henry Calvin; life was larger than theology, and so, one after another, in these which are the concentric spheres within which human nature lives, the successive opening of the partial into the universal and the temporary with the eternal, came. Not less, but more mysterious, and religious...