dogmas

The massive failure of totalitarian metamyths, the extraordinary scale of the megadeaths exacted in the name of dogmas, and the currently more pervasive intellectual skepticism regarding the practicality of utopias, makes it unlikely that a self-destructive political wave will replicate the tragic errors of the twentieth century.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

His attitude toward the idealistic dogmas is a most independent one and quite frequently one of opposition.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 - Presentation Speech 1950

Friends, who denounced her as a dangerous woman because she doubted certain dogmas they fully believed.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

The point: there aren’t really dogmas in science, but some scientific concepts are sometimes called dogmas by scientists.

Shapiro on DBB Review - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Albert Schweitzer too has lived his whole life by the same principle, applying it to everything he has done, although he has never been a believer in dogmas.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1958 - Presentation Speech 1958

To be applied, the interest of the Twelve hundred dollars above mentioned, for educational purposes alone, for children of both sexes of color, in Canada, apart from all sectarian or traditional dogmas, which is the only hope for the rising generation.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

Their dogmas were the existence of one God and the immortality of the soul.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

We cannot describe as dogmas, doctrines such as the Apokatastasis, or the Kenosis of the Son of God, without coming into conflict with the ordinary usage of language and with ecclesiastical law.

History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

That which Protestants and Catholics call dogmas, are not only ecclesiastical doctrines, but they are also: (1) theses expressed in abstract terms, forming together

History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

Protestantism; (2) That as noted above, the dogmas, that is, the formulated doctrines of faith have different meanings on different matters in the Protestant and in the Catholic Churches.

History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890