Word: dogma
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...last week for their 1962 party convention. Hardly anyone called anyone else "comrade," and the lone red flag on the podium was half hidden behind a bank of hydrangeas and chrysanthemums. Outside in the convention hall's parking lot were the new caste marks of the delegates without dogma: Mercedeses, Opels and Volkswagens...
...doctrine of free trade, for instance, has in England, for about half a century, held the field as an unassailable dogma of economic policy.... The doctrine of free trade may, as far as Englishmen are concerned, be treated as the doctrine of Adam Smith. The reasons in its favor never have been, nor will, from the nature of things, be mastered by the majority of any people.... The obvious objections to free trade may, as free traders conceive, be met; but then the reasoning by which these objections are met is often elaborate and subtle, and does not carry conviction...
...minded expert on church history. Pelikan, who styles himself as an "evangelical catholic" and "critical traditionalist," believes that the success of the ecumenical movement depends upon a proper understanding of the Christian past, and is trying to further understanding by writing a comprehensive history of the development of church dogma. "Tradition," he says, "needs to be critically re-examined for its richness and its depth." He has "grave doubts" about the ability of a divided Christianity-already on the defensive everywhere, he feels-to withstand the stresses of the modern world, but expects the emergence of new forms of inter...
...orthodox dogma that Barth has tried to set aright-much to the dismay of other theologians in the Reformed Church -is the best-known and gloomiest of Calvinist tenets: predestination. In his Institutes, Calvin argued that God has already determined both those who will be saved at the Last Judgment and those who will suffer the eternal pangs of Hell. Barth says that this belief does not pay sufficient heed to the fact that Christ's death was intended for all men: Man's ultimate fate is shrouded in mystery, but Barth believes that Christ, the loving Judge...
...insight into life's meaning. Princeton's best-known systematic theologian, Presbyterian George Stuart Hendry, says Barth's Christocentric approach forces many church doctrines into an artificial mold. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary thinks Barth pays insufficient attention to the history of how Christian dogma developed...