Dogma

Definitions

1. An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
   countable, uncountable
2. A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“If he has a dogma, i.e. a scientifico-philosophical theory, then he is not any sort⟳ of Skeptic, not even an urbane Skeptic.”

“In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ex cathedra to make⟳ them part of the official faith.”

“According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name⟳ he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.”

“Other foreign terms have⟳ become⟳ so thoroughly Anglicised as to adopt⟳ English plurals, and it is sometimes difficult to decide⟳ whether the English or the original foreign form⟳ is the more correct⟳. None but a pedant would speak⟳ of ‘the chori of an opera,’ ‘the croci in a garden,’ or ‘the dogmata of the church;’ […]”

“The man who thinks that his religion is the sum-total of the religious dogmas he believes in, who thinks that to live⟳ in harmony with the allhood of things it requires only that one subscribe⟳ to certain prescribed religious dogmas, in whose mind⟳ the means of salvation is simply frequency and fervency of prayer, assiduity and fidelity of attendance on worship⟳, — in the case of that man his so-called religion is just as apt as not to become⟳ an actual aid to immorality, for it is not religion at all, but purblind, self-righteous Pharisaism.”

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