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dogma

The authoritative truths accepted by members of a particular faith. In the Roman Catholic Church the dogmas are transmitted through scripture or papal or church traditions. The teachings are believed to be handed down from the apostles and interpreted by the church fathers and canons. The Orthodox Church does not accept papal authority, while the Reformed Churches insist on scripture alone as the source of authority.



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Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Each race writes its line upon the book, as it passes; it erases the ancient Romanesque hieroglyphs on the frontispieces of cathedrals, and at the most one only sees dogma cropping out here and there, beneath the new symbol which it has deposited.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Now, as always, Clare's father was sanguine as a child; and though the younger could not accept his parent's narrow dogma he revered his practice, and recognized the hero under the pietist.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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