How To Use Dogma In A Sentence

To say the Church was "forced" into these decisions is to abnegate the importance of free will, which is an essential element of Catholic dogma. Is That Legal?: Feel-Good History for the Paranoid Catholic: A Review of Thomas Woods' "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization"
Lambert isn't against atonalism, and admires Berg a great deal, but he's against any sort of dogmatism, and the atonalists had become dogmatic even by then.
He was a strong supporter of the doctrine of papal infallibility and he drew up a postulatum in which he favoured a definition by implication in preference to an explicit affirmation of the dogma. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Education meant the inculcation of truths as dogmas, the institutionalization of habits of obedience, the subjection of the individual to the community.
a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.
Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
However, for the sake of discovering and spreading truth, rather than dogma, I did an independent study of the past two postseasons using the game logs available at Retrosheet.
Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
And credit for his undogmatic approach is due in part, he thinks, to his former boss, the trail-blazing Dutch architect and urban planner Rem Koolhaas. Building a Better Future
That is one reason why we have remained opposed to dogmatism toward the theory of Marxism.
I do agree with you in that "the Dogma of Faith that Christ has constituted the Catholic Church indefectible, by His Own Virtue". Modern world: a desert of God
If unconditional, it converts to dogma, which is incompatible with intellectual honesty.
But to dismiss them without scientific inquiry would be to dogmatise science, and label as heresy any challenge thrown at it.
Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.
Since Hinduism is a religion without dogmas and has a wide theological spectrum, its real objective is assimilation - religious and cultural.
They scouted the venerable old dogma of the divine right of kings and titled aristocracies to rule the submissive multitude. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Against his appeals to observation they opposed dogmatic principles.
Nowhere in the report does she provide evidence for these assertions:they are merely dogmatically stated as fact.
Because the discursive babbler is setting himself some dogmatically rigid guardrails.
From what we’ve seen Connie do over the last four years, it seems as if her self-assigned mission is to identify artists in all media who are making nondogmatic, nondidactic work that nonetheless aims to change political consciousness, encourage those artists, and bring them together. Living Justice
In a free market society, ruled not by a dogma, but by the mammon, it was unnecessary.
If you want narrow dogma, how about the plight of a major political party in which being pro-life disqualifies you from seeking national office because special interests forbid it?
They must beware of becoming dogmatic and opinionated and strive to keep an open mind and their opinions flexible.
Dogmatism is puppyish coming to its full growth.
He had left his church, spoken of Jesus as a human role model, and used biblical history and Christian dogmas simply as figures of speech, supportive exempla in his powerful rhetoric against the dead incarnations of past spirit.
Regina Einig asked the chairman of the German Mariological society, professor of dogmatics and patristics at Lugano, Te Deum laudamus!
Buddhism, by contrast, seems to have no rules, no dogmas, no guilt-inducing concepts like sin.
They do this in line with a liberal dogma that insists that only market-led reforms will lead to lasting change.
Discussions of the American alliance in this volume, and our economic and cultural bonds therein, are in general incurious, dogmatic and one-dimensional.
I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
I'm not sure about that, but I am hopeful that Anglican theology, with its middle way between liberal rationalism and dogmatic traditionalism, can save the historical quest for Jesus.
It claims conservatism is rooted in phobias that cause ‘fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity.’
But it also stemmed from his aloof and dogmatic attitude. Times, Sunday Times
In 1958, Francis Crick used and characterized the concept of information in the context of stating what he called the central dogma of molecular biology. Molecular Biology
Yet the way she says it is urgent, funny, alarmed but undogmatic. Times, Sunday Times
American neo-orthodoxy in the 1940s and 1950s typically meant a compound of Brunner's dogmatics, Niebuhr's theological ethics, and the scripture scholarship of the biblical theology movement.
It meant rewriting the dogma of molecular biology.
A far more sinister implication is the creation of an intolerant dogmatic approach to complex issues.
Dresser's style was never dictated by dogmatic theories, but had a general affinity to the art of the early English Middle Ages and also suggested his admiration for Asian art.
A West Germany firmly shackled to this impossibilist dogma would never be able to do a deal with the Soviet Union, such as leaving Nato in return for reunification. London Review of Books
Made dogma in the Christian doctrine of the ‘odor of sanctity,’ that moral interpretation of corrupt and incorruptible flesh permeated secular culture as well.
At his best, and that is often, this transplated Englishman goes beyond impressionism to provide an undogmatic assessment of what Americans (indeed, people all over the planet) have done to the earth. Landscape's Grittier Aspects
Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.
He is, in my estimation, entrenched in the intellectual laziness of dogma and the comforts of blinders. His is a proudly unpersuadable mind.
Dogmatic people tend to be dogmatic about everything, whereas Catholic Faith says ‘Be dogmatic about the dogmatic truths of the Faith, but for the rest of life: Lighten up, bub!’
Attestamur item, nos minime talia in Ecclesiis nostris spargere dogmata, qualia adversarii nonnulli nostri nobis, apud eos maxime, ad quos scripta nostra non perveniunt, et qui doctrinae nostrae imperiti sunt, falso et praeter meritum tribuere, obtrudereque nituntur. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
The argument based on the sanctity of life is essentially a matter of religious dogma.
The dogmatic resistance to entrenchment would raise its arid and pedantic head.
That dogmatic definition seems to have struck him as unscriptural over definition, an intellectual exercise which had developed into a rigid system of control.
The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality.
By dogmatically employing ‘news values’ that focus on conflict, drama and simplicity, we get the political stakes raised to the point where political leaders are induced into playing the game of dumbing it down to win the media war.
Complexities of politics and dogma take root well beneath the surface of what had seemed to be a simple, resoluble situation.
However, science springs ultimately from the human urge to truth, and dogmatism eventually gives way under this impetus.
Whatever the subject, he addresses it in a thoughtful, generous, undogmatic spirit.
So there you have it: the great high priest of Darwinian Dogma has spoken; all nonsense perhaps, but atheists, please genuflect. 2010 April « Anglican Samizdat
This revolutionary change has, not surprisingly, been opposed by many elements that are recalcitrant, those who remain obedient to dogma, to tradition and the heavy legacy of past conditioning. The Continuing Controversy on Abortion
For the present it must suffice to observe that the evidences of an overruling dogmatic purpose are generally much more conspicuous in the third synoptist than in the first; and that the very loose manner in which this writer has handled his materials in the "Acts" is not calculated to inspire us with confidence in the historical accuracy of his gospel. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
Researchers have found that Conservatives typically are dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity with beliefs rooted in fear and aggression.
But this totality still has strong oneiric qualities - dogmatism leads only to the hallucinatory domain. The Times Literary Supplement
‘It's the study of dogmatics, you know, universal truth, what you know as opposed to what you believe,’ he replies.
Both have clear and simple moral arguments in their favour and convoluted, dogmatic arguments against. Times, Sunday Times
He's not entirely dogmatic about it and he'll make an exception whenever he's enthused enough by the work.
This sceptical dogma of "evasiveness" is generally found in alliance with some vague modern "religion" whose chief object is to strip the world of the dignity of its real tragedy and endow it with the indignity of some pretended assurance. The Complex Vision
That good ole dogmata you quote, would not have been understood by the Founding Fathers. Why are libertarians so interested in philosophy?
We see that 'Shroud science' - like 'creation science' and other pseudosciences in the service of dogma - begins with the desired answer and works backward to the evidence.
So that, if the truth must be spoken, when the rational and dogmatical sciences began, the discovery of useful works came to an end. The New Organon
Only dogmatic Darwin worshipers could be dumb enough to believe that these stalactites and stalagmites would know where to start growing so that eventually meet at a point, conjoin, become a pillar and hold the roof of the cave up. Rimstone Formation - The Panda's Thumb
Crude materialism is the hardcore – some would say dogmatic – version of materialism. Mindful things « Anglican Samizdat
The attitude we call conservatism is sustained by a body of sentiments, rather than by a system of ideological dogmata. Why are libertarians so interested in philosophy?
Like Galileo's trial before the Inquisition, this was not an argument about truth but a struggle for power, a sign of the religious dogmatism of the Counter-Reformation.
Religious people are more likely to be prejudiced, dogmatic and closed-mind, and not all believers are faithful to the moral percepts and principles taught by religion. Dr T.P.Chia
I deny, here and now, every argument of human ingenuity that has been advanced, or ever will be advanced, against the Dogma of Faith that Christ has constituted the Catholic Church indefectible, by His Own Virtue. Modern world: a desert of God
In a sense, this movie is "evangelistic", but for that non-dogmatic perspective that emphasizes not dogma but love, family, relationship, compassion, loyalty, and other things that are not the sole property of Christians, and which fundamentalist dogma is sometimes even a hindrance to. Bucket List of the Evangelical Nation
Others in turn, such as Christian theologian Alister McGrath, have used the term fundamentalism to characterize atheism as dogmatic. Blurbomat.com
Iconic creativity issues out of the entire church's dogmatic heritage, which is founded on divine revelation.
We should abandon the old dogma that people with locked-in syndrome either die or stay in the condition for years. The Sun
This dogma is supposed to free the writerly side of one's brain for unconstrained truth-telling.
Whether in the long run we should go onto mechanize is a question on which I do not wish to dogmatize, but I am certain that the improvement of agriculture in Asia should start with the extension of modern science to agriculture, rather than with mechanization. The Role of Free China in the Free World
He struck me not only as highly educated but, more importantly, highly educable, meaning that he seemed capable of mastering problems on their own terms rather than with reference to pre-existing dogmas. Walter Kirn: Testing, Testing
Reading his “contract on america”, then the inverview, I never expected to see such die-hard, heatless, dogmatic, indomitable cluelessness about the workings of Society. Newt Gingrich Answers Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. In which Max discovers a tic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
There could be few things more dogmatic than the many dictates of Leftist political correctness!
Just over a decade later, Thatcher's crude rightwing dogmatism had given way to a kind of all-pervasive centre-right wishful thinking. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones – review
Regardless of whether you accept their dogma, they deal with issues like this more often than you might imagine and their various approaches to reconditioning impulses have worked for many people.
In 1854, Pope Pius the Ninth proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
The implication is that this is needless suffering or, even worse, suffering caused by human beings with their dogmatic religious intolerance.
The science which, with all its preliminaries, has for its especial object the solution of these problems is named metaphysics -- a science which is at the very outset dogmatical, that is, it confidently takes upon itself the execution of this task without any previous investigation of the ability or inability of reason for such an undertaking. The Critique of Pure Reason
But his selection and the feeble dogma behind it has caused utter chaos. Times, Sunday Times
There is no dogma - ‘… none of these are writ in stone’ - is one comment on his site.
The Independent, launched in October 1986 with venture capital, seeks to be independent of political party dogma.
The new hard-line government brought 'normalization': a return to dogmatism, to censorship and oppression, yet now with minimal terror. The Times Literary Supplement
The state has the same will, the same conscience-voice for good and evil as the Christ; yet it crumbles itself away into dogmaticalness of civil officers against one another. Uncollected Prose
Page 67 good people of the town, aware of his pertinacity in this particular, had no mind to make points with him, but, on the contrary, rather corroborated him in his dogmatism by an amiable assentation; so that, it is said, he grew daily more peremptory. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
Most ancient legislators, therefore, considered cleanliness, which they called purity, as one of the essential dogmas of their religions. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
He is much less certain and dogmatic talking about emotions and personal relationships.
He has caused a storm by calling into question one of the central dogmas of the Church.
Sadia Rai, a Â‘dogmatic painterÂ’ displayed a canvas, mostly painted in black, and on the focal point where a female figure, painted in vivid red paint was shown encaged in a white ice-like cube. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1062
Whereas the sexton's son, Heidegger, had decided that the life of philosophy was incompatible with the dogmatic system of the Church, Stein was led by phenomenological study to God.
If they want the job, it's up to them - that is, the crane driver and the dogman - to assess how they want to do the job.
It is so hoang dã mà nó terrifies một số người Kitô hữu cố gắng dogmatize lo sợ của mình bằng cách lashing out at Kitô hữu khác, bởi vì gọn gàng Kitô giáo với tất cả các câu trả lời cho dễ hơn là một trong đó đạt ra những thắc mắc hoang dã của tình yêu Thiên Chúa, một tình yêu chúng tôi không thậm chí có kiếm được. Ideonexus.com »2007» Tháng Chín
Judging by his students – who include Niall Ferguson, Andrew Roberts, Richard Overy and Orlando Figes – Stone must have been an inspiring and undogmatic teacher, a provocateur in the classroom but a supportive mentor outside. The Atlantic and Its Enemies by Norman Stone
If he means the dispute over evolution, it is usually the Darwinian dogmatists who oppose free intellectual inquiry in the schools.
The dogma is true for all contemporary organisms, with one or two possible exceptions. Infinite in All Directions
Despite years of evidence highlighting their failings, dogmatic adherence to dated ideology persists.
They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
As church dogmatics, as the faith of the community seeking understanding, theology is inherently communitarian.
Researchers familiar with spectrometry and colorimetry will know this, but there might be many readers that dogmatically reject any animal color study without reflectance.
Contrary to official wisdom, the public is generally measured and undogmatic in its attitudes towards the technology.
Same with dogmatic laissez faire capitalism (whose Gawd is some omnipotent Invisible Hand whose wisdom is infallible) .... The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
The intellectualist wants to stay and contemplate the burning bush, to draw it to size, to define its properties, to dogmatise its meaning and to describe the distance at which presence to or from it becomes either a mortal or a venial sin.
He scoffed at the disparate creeds of religions, each claiming to see the truth through the colored lenses of its own dogmatism.
Someone who had been 'a remarkably undogmatic man, unassuming and even diffident in manner' became obstinate in the extreme.
Nor has sensory skepticism hindered dogmatists from seeking absolute truth elsewhere, namely in Reason or Logic.
Just pointing out that there's a wide gulf of difference between the scientific theory of evolution and the way evolutionary dogma gets perceived by the masses.
Feminist psychologists are also increasingly concerned to avoid dogmatism and prescription.
That is to say, it is concerned with academic biblical exegesis and academic dogmatic theology.
People are beginning to question the old dogmas.
In their statement, they advocated "a nonacquisitive, inclusive, and decentralized spirituality, without rigid authoritarian hierarchies or controlling and moralistic dogma. Steven and Michael Meloan: Can the Commingling of Science and Spirituality be Transformative?
I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
But in the meantime the history of Yiddish warns us to be wary of dogmatic statements about its life and death.
But his selection and the feeble dogma behind it has caused utter chaos. Times, Sunday Times
But how do you drill this into the heads of the millions of self-styled born-agains who are less dogmatic?
Wouldn't we in effect be dogmatizing party politics?
He died while working as a dogman on a crane that struck overhead power lines last year.
They were freethinkers and opponents of religious dogma.
Anyway, the whole thing makes me wonder about religious organisations like Hillsong Church, where they apparently preach the usual self-help dogma about getting stinking rich and so on.
They share a strong non-dogmatic Christian faith and from it flows a commitment to do their duty to their country and their people.
Their arrogance and dogmatism in pursuit of their political struggle led at one point to a kind of reckless disregard for life.
That Mullen further stated he'd served with gays and lesbians since 1968 didn't move the intransigent stick-in-the-mud Republican dogma. John McCain's No Longer a Hero: His Stance on Patriotic Gays is Shameful and Un-American
But his selection and the feeble dogma behind it has caused utter chaos. Times, Sunday Times
But in the minor 'dogmata', in modes of exposition, and the vehicles of faith and reason to the understandings, imaginations, and affections of men, the churches may differ, and in this difference supply one object for charity to exercise itself on by mutual forbearance. Literary Remains, Volume 2
This is a long game, worthy of political consensus rather than political dogma. Times, Sunday Times
The council has operated much more effectively since pragmatism replaced political dogma.
Still, there were pearls of wisdom buried amid the dogma.
I was not an environmentalist then, and my impression of these people ranged from the nasality of John Denver to dogmatic feminists cramming political correctness into any available ear while claiming that they would save the world by recycling, biking to work or changing out the incandescent light bulbs. Giles Slade: The 'Deep Throat' of Green
She leads prayers on the hour and espouses a real but undogmatic faith. Times, Sunday Times
If we do not prove our thesis, we are dogmatic, not critical. Christianity Today
With many in our leadership, this alleged "immutability" of ours is now a dogma. Patricia Nell Warren: Civil Rights for Gays: Does "Immutable" Really Describe Us?
This is notably true before the emergence in his poetry of the dogmatising tones that mar some of the poems that follow The Waste Land.
From my experience, hostility coming from the Left is a direct response to the sanctimonious, oppressive dogma and bigotry that emanates from the political Right.
But his aesthetic immoralism remained in substance unchanged - it only bowed down before the rule of dogmatic Christianity.
The Dominion reveals Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) decided to replace the leadership of Barriere Lake First Nation, which officials considered "dogmatized," with a chief and council offering "improved collaboration. The Dominion: All Stories
That means you have to be less dogmatic about access technology. Times, Sunday Times
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
It promised ruthless pragmatism about means, but has become dogmatic in its advocacy of the private sector.
Such shallow and untenable reasoning lies at the heart of many sexist, racist and elitist dogmas.
The newspaper seeks to be independent of political dogma.
Pius took it upon himself to proclaim the Dogma of the Assumption.
Now you're asking us whether you should bring up a child with your atheist teachings and dogma?
At the time, dogmatists fiercely defended the view that an artificial lens would be impossibly difficult to implant, and would also be rejected by the immune system.
Dogma, dialectic, collective and the like are hardly sounds to sing with or symbols you can use to touch the heart and stir the soul. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
Parents, correspondingly, have no God-given licence to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children's knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith. The God Delusion
I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
Either our proposition must be proved apodeictically; or, if this is unsuccessful, the sources of this inability must be sought for, and, if these are discovered to exist in the natural and necessary limitation of our reason, our opponents must submit to the same law of renunciation and refrain from advancing claims to dogmatic assertion. The Critique of Pure Reason
The cause of public confidence in science is ill served by the dogmatic and intolerant banner of 'denialism'.
I do, however, recognise my own utterly antidoxic nature as so unquestionably Libran that I have to be skeptical about that rationalist dogma, and try and explain this evidence rather than blithely ignore it. Critique From HereNow
Although, grounded on rational arguments, industrialization shone in their eyes with the fervour of religious dogma. The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
But their cult is now in disarray, and the best writing of the moment has repudiated useless dogmas in favor of the fundamentals of storytelling.
The revealed theology of the Anglican formularies is based on the Catholic dogma of the Holy Trinity and the function of Christ as mediator between God and man that was and is the standard of Christian orthodoxy.
As Meyer encountered different cultures, his relatively undogmatic approach to theology enabled him to adapt his ministry to fit the situation.
Scheiner, and Secchi are famous as astronomers; Athanasius Kircher was a polyhistor in the best sense of the term; Hardouin, though frequently hypercritical and eccentric, was a most acute critic and in many ways far in advance of his age; Petavius was the father of the historical treatment of dogma and a leader in chronology; and the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
A religious insight like Julian's shows that a passive, unquestioning acceptance of received dogma is not enough.
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
The author's claim that the biblical creation story associates woman with ‘inborn evil’ relies upon a Christian interpretation of the Fall of Man story in Genesis, which ascribes the dogma of Original Sin to Eve's eating the apple.
Defeat is an opportunity to recalibrate a few cricketing dogmas. Times, Sunday Times
In 1870 the First Vatican Council announced the dogma of papal infallibility on matters of faith and morals.
Bill Brown, somewhat of a shyster, and his ear ever cocked to the crowd, was not above taking advantage when opportunity offered, and when it did not offer, to dogmatize artfully. CHAPTER 28
I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
This dogma can only be demolished by drawing clear distinctions between scientific evidence and the evidence of religious and/or mystical experience.
Scholes splits "fabulation" into two major components: dogmatic and speculative. Anime Nano!
Public health policy should be based on a thorough and critical review of the scientific evidence by open minds unfettered by custom and dogma.
They are true believers - dogmatists - who view opposition to their views and values as malice, ignorance, or stupidity rather than as a reflection of honest and respectable disagreement.
Kant himself distinguished two types of philosophy, which he called the dogmatic and critical types. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
The church has proclaimed as infallible two dogmas in relation to Mary - the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption.
I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
My second uniform is less dogmatic, more feminine, yet still a tad chaste. Times, Sunday Times
But the desire to present him as undogmatic does make for the odd bit of glossing over. The Times Literary Supplement
The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion. Dr T.P.Chia
You won't be surprised if I say that I don't regard that as a recipe for a kind of dogmatic biblicism, or just like rolling over with your paws in the air in the face of whatever scripture appears to say, because that's not a real conversation. The Archbishop's Response to the Presence and Engagement Study Day, with Q&As
In a different dimension but not far removed, Obama's Chicago pastor, now eclipsed, Rev. Jeremiah Wright showed Obama a non-dogmatic Christianity: a transcendent God and a zeal for this-worldly activism, but not a direct answer to every political question. Christopher Lydon: Reading Obama's Mind: Pragmatism and Its Perils (AUDIO)
Speculative theology is not the same as philosophy of religion, or is it identical with theology in the sense of dogmatics .
In fact, I wonder if you even read the quote you yourself provided: “I have with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.” Happy Birthday Ben - The Panda's Thumb
I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.
And as I have been busy lately, being wacky happy, I have been remiss is giving a shout out to the newest soldier in the War On Dogma ... gotta say hey to my newest reader, the lover cyber-geisha herself, sayaka. Sunday, Busy Sunday
The newspaper seeks to be independent of political dogma.
Defeat is an opportunity to recalibrate a few cricketing dogmas. Times, Sunday Times
It appears to be a prudential judgment of the Pope's, not a dogmatic statement.
What is holding this research back is not money but dogmatism and narrow-mindedness.
I don't want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement.
Dogma_, he italicized those last words would appear to show that he attached some special, almost "thaumaturgical," value to them. Matthew Arnold
He has stood up to petty tyrants, from dogmatic Communists, through McCarthyites to third-world dictators.
We cannot allow dogmatism to stand in the way of progress.
You can disagree with any facet of their dogma, but you can't dogmatize them out of existence. Texas Faith: Should the next Supreme Court justice be a Protestant? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
The researchers who propound these theories and the doctors administering these treatments, by contrast, are regarded as courageous pioneers battling against official indifference and dogma.
Financial considerations played as important a role as ideological dogmas.
The emanation of all beings from the soul of the universe, and their refusion in it, which were tenets closely connected with this system of dogmas, border on a species of Pantheism, and are liable to all the difficulties attendant upon that doctrine. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844

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