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dogma
  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.
  2. A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
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    1. “From this was perpetuated the dogma that the private sector would always be more efficient than the public.”
      “Against the strict dogma of the ecclesiastical authorities, prohibiting usury and financial dealings in general, the Cathars espoused a doctrine more in line with the growing commercialization of economic life.”
      “In the first third of the nineteenth century, a rationalistic section of the Protestant Church attempted to rid itself of the fetters of dogma and reconcile its ideas with pure reason.”
dogmatizer
dogmatic
  1. One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.
dogmatist
  1. A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.
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    1. “The dogmatist gave a voice to the thoughts which the sight of the picture had awakened.”
      “Even when you're a purblind dogmatist who wants to shut it down, I guess you've got to at least pay lip service to it, which explains the name.”
      “A pitiless dogmatist, he once declined to save two nieces from his own regime.”
dogmatism
  1. The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.
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    1. “But the party realises that pragmatism rather than dogmatism is required if it is to make headway in a deeply divided polity.”
      “A while back, I criticised dogmatism among atheists as well as an excess of certainty in belief.”
      “In this ideological age, the youth movements displayed no small measure of dogmatism and elitism.”
dogmatics
  1. The systematic study of church dogma.
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    1. “As church dogmatics, as the faith of the community seeking understanding, theology is inherently communitarian.”
      “When done in spirit and in truth, both theology and worship alike, dogmatics and doxology, are a fitting tribute.”
      “The collection contains works on doctrinal theology, patristic and mediaeval dogmatics, and liturgics.”
dogmatization
  1. The process or result of dogmatizing.
dogmaticalness
  1. The quality of being dogmatical.
dogmatician
  1. A dogmatist.
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    1. “A major Protestant tradition, culminating in the work of the important dogmatician Karl Barth, decided in favor of the first interpretation.”
      “Loehe appropriated David Hollaz, the last great dogmatician of Lutheran orthodoxy in the eighteenth century.”
      “After a stint in parliamentary politics, he returned to the Church and was ordained at the age of 48, later to emerge as a leading Orthodox dogmatician.”
dogmatizations
  1. plural of dogmatization
dogmaticians
dogmatizers
dogmatists
dogmatisms
dogmas
  1. plural of dogma
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    1. “Buddhism, by contrast, seems to have no rules, no dogmas, no guilt-inducing concepts like sin.”
      “In a sense it is not the corruptors' fault, they were brought up to inherit the same dishonest dogmas and attitudes as the previous generation.”
      “Zen has an iconoclastic tendency, and seems to regard the study of texts, doctrines, and dogmas as a potential hindrance to spiritual awakening.”
dogmata
  1. plural of dogma
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    1. “As the senses naturally belong to the body, and the desires and affections to the soul, so do the dogmata to the understanding.”
      “In arguing that the Skeptic has dogmata in the first sense, Sextus simply needs to show that the Skeptic does assent to something.”
      “I divide all apodeictic propositions, whether demonstrable or immediately certain, into dogmata and mathemata.”
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