Sentence examples for dogmatic definition from inspiring English sources

There has never b been a final, dogmatic definition of the Church's nature In this session, it appears that the split between the conservatives and the progressives among the Council Fathers, has been largely healed.

The First Vatican Council (1869 70) strengthened the central position of the papacy in the constitutional law of the church by means of its dogmatic definition of papal primacy.

Even the more narrow-minded circles that criticized the «panheresy of ecumenism» never believed that the council would formulate any new dogmatic definition!

Prompted by the Reformation, the Council of Trent was highly important for its sweeping decrees on self-reform and for its dogmatic definitions that clarified virtually every doctrine contested by the Protestants.

At that stage, the CoPKM may become dogmatic in its definition of relevant questions and ignore views challenging its 'good practices'.

The agnosticism article was published at a time when critics of religion were often assumed to be communists; Russell counters this suggestion by pointing out that the kind of communism advocated by the Soviet government fits his definition of dogmatic religion, and that therefore "every genuine agnostic must be opposed to it".

The dogmatic constitutions of the First Vatican Council (1869 70) and papal definitions of the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception (1854) and of the Assumption (1950) also have some of the character of confessions.

Laetentur coeli was the basis for the solemn definition that Vatican I promulgated in 1870 as part of its dogmatic constitution Pastor aeternus.

In Practicing New Historicism (2000), Greenblatt and coauthor Catherine Gallagher mounted a rigorous defense of New Historicism in response to charges that it lacked definition, casting it as an empirical means of interpretation rather than a dogmatic theory.

Evolutionary supporters point out evolution is neither dogmatic nor based on faith, and they accuse creationists of equivocating between the strict definition of religion and its colloquial usage to refer to anything that is enthusiastically or dogmatically engaged in.

(I'm not being dogmatic here. The Cato Institute, the Wall Street Journal, and the other usual suspects agree with me about this definition, and, incidentally, they all hate Romney -- which should tell us something).