Word: dogmas
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John Paul, who rose to eminence in Communist Poland, made clear his urgent desire to eliminate priestly activism based upon Marxist dogma. The Pope emphatically rejected liberation theology, without ever using that phrase. Repeatedly emphasizing the value of each person before God, and the need for spiritual freedom, he used the term liberation in a Christianized context. To the Pope, "atheistic humanism" holds out to mankind only a half liberation, because it bases everything on economic determinism ignores spiritual dynamics. The result, he said, is that man's very being is "reduced in the worst way." Today, he said...
...choice lawyers argue that "for all practical purposes the normative interpretation of Catholic dogma" is aided by the law's provisions. (In fact, the federal law is considerably looser than official Catholic teaching...
...After a run of a hundred years or so," wrote one of America's leading architecture critics, Peter Blake, in his belligerent text Form Follows Fiasco (1977), "Modern Dogma is worn out. We are now close to the end of one epoch, and well be fore the start of a new one. During this period of transition there will be no moratorium on building ... there will just be more and more architecture without architects." To travel in American cities is to know what he meant; the townscape of the '70s is perfused with cost-accountant buildings that bear no trace...
...alternative to the Shah." That argument, which is beginning to sound like a slogan, really means: There is no acceptable alternative to the Shah. To say that there is no alternative at all is illogical, and unworthy of the men who reiterate it so dogmatically. But it is that dogma-"There is no alter native to the Shah"-that has dictated policy and discouraged options for many, many years.-Strobe Talbott
...article would indicate, but the authors seek to convince us of this by holding up characteristics that have made American males obnoxious to others and dangerous to themselves, as benchmarks of self-esteem. If the authors really wish to support their claim, rather than assert it as dogma, perhaps studies of incidences of depression or of psychological profiles or even of degree of social interaction with the community would be far better to point...