dogma

dogma, the explication and officially acceptable version of a religious teaching. The development of doctrines and dogmas has significantly affected the traditions, institutions, and practices of the religions of the world. Doctrines and dogmas also have influenced and been influenced by the ongoing development of…

Jesus “taught with authority” (Matthew 7:29), and the risen Lord gave his Apostles a share in his authority when he commissioned them to make disciples from all the nations by teaching what he had commanded them (Matthew 28:18–20). The apostolic…

…totality of religious teachings (dogmatics, or the doctrine of faith). (2) It has to interpret humanity’s existence in the world and, related to this, to determine the norms (ethics derived from faith) for action in the world—e.g., for one’s disposition toward fellow humans and toward societal and political structures…

The Roman Catholic Church in its formula of baptism still asks that the parents and godparents of infants to be baptized recite the Apostles’ Creed as a sign that they accept the basic doctrines of the church and will help their children…

…articles of faith or, sometimes, dogmas.

…and contexts of religious teaching, dogma, and theology also produce or form symbolic values or refer to traditional symbolic representations. Symbol structures and pictorial representations are brought into connection with dogma and theological statements—e.g., the Buddhistic karma-samsara (law of cause and effect and reincarnation) theory and the