Dogma

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Dogma

Dogma is the established belief

Belief

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true....
or doctrine

Doctrine

Doctrine is a codification of beliefs or "a body of teachers" or "instructions", taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system....
held by a religion

Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
, ideology

Ideology

An ideology is a set of aims and ideas, especially in politics. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society....
or any kind of organization

Organization

An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment....
: it is authoritative

Authority

In government, authority is often used interchangeably with the term "power ". However, their meanings differ: while "power" refers to the ability to achieve certain ends, "authority" refers to a claim of legitimacy , the justification and right to exercise that power....
and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from

Heresy

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief....
. The term derives from Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
"that which seems to one, opinion or belief" and that from (dokeo), "to think, to suppose, to imagine". The plural is either dogmas or dogmata , from Greek .

Adherents who claim ideological indisputability are typically described as "zealots
Zealotry

Zealotry was a movement in Tannaim, described by Josephus as one of the "four sects" at this time. The term Zealot, in Hebrew language Kanai , means one who is wikt:zealous on behalf of God....
." Hence the term "dogma" has come to be used in a pejorative sense to refer to the concepts of zealots: concepts which are claimed to be "true" and "infallible," but are typically not infallible, usually not well understood or articulated, and quite often not even true.

s: Religious dogmata, when properly conceived, reach back to proofs other than themselves, and ultimately to faith
Faith

Faith is the confident belief in the truth of or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. It is also used for a belief, characteristically without proof....
.

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Anyone that isn't dead or from another plane of existance would do well to cover their ears right about...NOW.

Be who you've always been. Just... be this as well, from time to time.

Behold the Metatron! Herald of the Almighty and voice of the one true God!

Between guys with wings, guys falling out of the sky, and guys trying like hell to Fuck me I think I've been a pretty good sport about all of this.

Cardinal Glick: Christ didn't come to earth to give us the willies! He came to help us out. He was a booster.

Cardinal Glick: People find the Bible obtuse... even hokey.

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Dogma is the established belief
Belief

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true....
or doctrine
Doctrine

Doctrine is a codification of beliefs or "a body of teachers" or "instructions", taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system....
held by a religion
Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
, ideology
Ideology

An ideology is a set of aims and ideas, especially in politics. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society....
or any kind of organization
Organization

An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment....
: it is authoritative
Authority

In government, authority is often used interchangeably with the term "power ". However, their meanings differ: while "power" refers to the ability to achieve certain ends, "authority" refers to a claim of legitimacy , the justification and right to exercise that power....
and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from
Heresy

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief....
. The term derives from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
"that which seems to one, opinion or belief" and that from (dokeo), "to think, to suppose, to imagine". The plural is either dogmas or dogmata , from Greek .

Adherents who claim ideological indisputability are typically described as "zealots
Zealotry

Zealotry was a movement in Tannaim, described by Josephus as one of the "four sects" at this time. The term Zealot, in Hebrew language Kanai , means one who is wikt:zealous on behalf of God....
." Hence the term "dogma" has come to be used in a pejorative sense to refer to the concepts of zealots: concepts which are claimed to be "true" and "infallible," but are typically not infallible, usually not well understood or articulated, and quite often not even true.

Dogma in religion
Means: Religious dogmata, when properly conceived, reach back to proofs other than themselves, and ultimately to faith
Faith

Faith is the confident belief in the truth of or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. It is also used for a belief, characteristically without proof....
. Perhaps the pinnacle of organized exposition of theological dogma is the Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica

The Summa Theologica is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theology teachings of that time....
by Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Order was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis....
, who proposed this relationship between faith and objection: "If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation
Revelation

Revelation is the act of revealing or disclosing, or making something obvious and clearly understood through active or passive communication with the divinity....
, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections—if he has any—against faith" ().

Dogmata are found in many religions such as Christianity
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
, Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
, and Judaism
Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
, where they are considered core principles that must be upheld by all followers of that religion. As a fundamental element of religion, the term "dogma" is assigned to those theological tenets which are considered to be well demonstrated, such that their proposed disputation or revision effectively means that a person no longer accepts the given religion as his or her own, or has entered into a period of personal doubt. Dogma is distinguished from theological opinion regarding those things considered less well-known. Dogmata may be clarified and elaborated but not contradicted in novel teachings (e.g., ). Rejection of dogma is considered heresy
Heresy

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief....
in certain religions, and may lead to expulsion from the religious group.

For most of Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity

Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christianity traditions and churches which developed in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Christianity in Africa and southern India over several centuries of religious antiquity....
, the dogmata are contained in the Nicene Creed
Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed is the creed or profession of faith that is most widely used in Christianity liturgy. It is called Nicene because, in its original form, it was adopted in the city of Iznik by the first ecumenical council, which met there in 325....
and the canons of two, three, or seven ecumenical council
Ecumenical council

An ecumenical council is a conference of the bishops of the whole Christian Church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice....
s (depending on whether one is Nestorian, Oriental Orthodox
Oriental Orthodoxy

Oriental Orthodoxy is the communion of Eastern Christianity Churches that recognize only three ecumenical councils ? the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the Council of Ephesus....
, or Eastern Orthodox). These tenets are summarized by St. John of Damascus in his Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, which is the third book of his main work, titled The Fount of Knowledge. In this book he takes a dual approach in explaining each article of the Eastern Orthodox faith: one for Christians, where he uses quotes from the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
and, occasionally, from works of other Fathers of the Church
Church Fathers

The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theology and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history....
, and the second, directed both at non-Christians (but who, nevertheless, hold some sort of religious belief) and at atheists, for whom he employs Aristotelian logic
Term logic

In philosophy, term logic, also known as traditional logic, is a loose name for the way of doing logic that began with Aristotle, and that was dominant until the advent of modern predicate logic in the late nineteenth century....
and dialectics, especially reductio ad absurdum
Reductio ad absurdum

Reductio ad absurdum , also known as an apagogical argument, reductio ad impossibile, or proof by contradiction, is a type of logical argument where one assumes a claim for the sake of argument and derives an absurd or ridiculous outcome, and then concludes that the original claim must have been wrong as it led to an abs...
.

Catholics also hold as dogma the decisions of fourteen later councils and two decrees promulgated by pope
Pope

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
s' exercising papal infallibility
Papal infallibility

File:Gregorythegreat.jpgPapal infallibility is the dogma in Christian theology# Catholic theology that, by action of the Holy Spirit, the Pope is preserved from even the possibility of error when he solemnly declaration or promulgation to the Catholic Church a dogmatic teaching on faith or morals as being contained in divine revelation, or a...
(see Immaculate Conception
Immaculate Conception

For artistic depictions see Roman Catholic Marian art. For the novel by Ga?tan Soucy, see The Immaculate Conception.The Immaculate Conception is, according to Roman Catholic Dogma, the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary without any stain of original sin....
and Assumption of Mary
Assumption of Mary

The Roman Catholic Church teaches as Dogma that the Mary , "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." This means that Mary was transported into Heaven with her body and soul united....
). Protestants
Protestantism

Protestantism is a movement within Christianity that originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the three principal traditions of Christianity, together with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy....
to differing degrees affirm portions of these dogmata, and often rely on denomination-specific 'Statements of Faith' which summarize their chosen dogmata (see, e.g., Eucharist
Eucharist

The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion or Lord's Supper and other names, is a Christianity sacrament commemorating, by consecrating bread and wine, the Last Supper, the final meal that Jesus Christ shared with his disciples before his arrest, and eventual crucifixion, when he gave them bread saying, "This is my body", and wine...
).

In Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
, the dogmatic principles are contained in the aqidah
Aqidah

Aqidah is an Islamic term meaning creed. Any religious belief system, or creed, can be considered an example of aqidah. However this term has taken a significant technical usage in Muslim history and theology, denoting those matters over which Muslims hold conviction....
.

Within many Christian denominations, dogma is referred to as "doctrine
Doctrine

Doctrine is a codification of beliefs or "a body of teachers" or "instructions", taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system....
".

In debates among Marxists the terms "dogma" and "dogmatic" are often used with a negative connotation.

External links

- Strong's
James Strong (theologian)

James Strong was an United Statesn Methodism biblical scholar and educator, and the creator of Strong's Concordance. He was born in New York City; was Professor of Biblical Literature at Troy University in 1858-61, became Professor of Exegetical Theology at Drew Theological Seminary in 1868 and died at Round Lake, New York, New York....
N.T. Greek Lexicon