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What is Dogma?
What is Dogma: The word dogma means: a belief held by a body of people. This can include atheists, liberals, conservatives, and so on. Because this is a Christian apologetic website, we will focus on the word “dogma” within the Christian church: Dogma in the first century: Greek for “opinion,” the word dogma in the early Christian church only meant: an opinion given by God. Dogma was only considered to be the teachings found within the Bible. For centuries, this remained the definition of dogma. Dogma after the First Vatican Council: During the First Vatican Council, Pope Pius IX decreed that, under very specific…
Catechism: The formation of the Trinitarian dogma
… her Trinitarian faith, both to deepen her own understanding of the faith and to defend it against the errors that were deforming it. This clarification was the work of the early councils, aided by the theological work of the Church Fathers and sustained by the Christian people’s sense of the faith. 251 In order to articulate the dogma of the Trinity, the Church had to develop her own terminology with the help of certain notions of philosophical origin: “substance”, “person” or “hypostasis”, “relation” and so on. In doing this, she did not submit the faith to human wisdom, but gave…
Catechism: The dogma of the Holy Trinity
253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the “consubstantial Trinity”.83 The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: “The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God.”84 In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), “Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature.”85 254 The divine…
What is Baha’i?
… is ideal that all religions recognize the authority of other religions by submitting to the Baha’i faith. Baha’i has no dogma or formal program of worship and no official clergy. Baha’is are expected to pray daily, observe an annual fast, celebrate a number of holy days in the 19-month Baha’i calendar, and make a pilgrimage at least once to Haifa, Israel, the faith’s headquarters. Today, there are approximately 5 million Baha’is and several Baha’i temples, including one in Evanston, Illinois. Morality: The Baha’i concept of morality is not much different from the concept of morality found in other world religions….
Catechism: The Immaculate Conception
… dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.135 492 The “splendour of an entirely unique holiness” by which Mary is “enriched from the first instant of her conception” comes wholly from Christ: she is “redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son”.136 The Father blessed…
What is Judaism?
… life and following the Laws requires constant diligence, awareness, study, and discipline. According to Judaism, following the Laws of God is an expression of your constant devotion to, and awareness of, God. The Thirteen Principles of Judaism Because Judaism teaches one is judged by their actions and not their beliefs, Judaism places little emphasis on dogma. The individual beliefs held by Jews across the world vary greatly, making it difficult to identify beliefs which are distinctively Jewish. The best attempt to identify the dogmatic beliefs of Judaism came from Maimonides (1135 – 1204) a Jewish philosopher, also known as Rambam:…