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The meaning of the word dogma

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dogma

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov

dogma

dogma, m. (from Greek dogma) (book).

The main indisputable statement in religious teaching. Dogma of papal infallibility (among Catholics).

trans. A separate position of some kind. doctrine, scientific direction, which is fundamental in nature.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I.Ozhegov, N.Yu.Shvedova.

dogma

A, m. The main position in religious teaching, considered (by the church) to be an immutable truth and not subject to criticism. Dogmas of Christianity.

New explanatory and word-formative dictionary of the Russian language, T. F. Efremova.

dogma

m. The main position in religious teaching, accepted on faith and not subject to criticism.

Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998

dogma

in religion - a doctrine approved by the highest church authorities, declared by the church to be an immutable truth, not subject to criticism. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. have a system of dogmas.

Same as dogma.

Wikipedia

Dogma

Dogma, or dogma- a doctrine approved by the church, declared a binding and unchangeable truth, not subject to criticism.

Examples of the use of the word dogma in literature.

For philosophical materialists, abiogenesis is one of dogmas their faith.

Your concepts of Good and Evil, born from church dogmas and from the absolutist teachings of the church fathers, have expanded somewhat during the existence of Christianity.

Then the Lord took me out of there temporarily and brought me to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, where the Old Testament is studied carefully, but they interpret it to fit their theories and dogmas.

Darkness, according to Albigensian dogma, is completely separated from the light and therefore the pun cannot suit either the forces of light or darkness.

In other words, the denial of the most important church dogmas and the main sacraments, the refusal to worship the saints and the non-recognition of indulgences, the liquidation of the Catholic hierarchy, which squanders huge amounts of money, the declaration of the pope as the vicar of Satan, the abolition of church tithes and the abolition of landholdings of the clergy, the refusal of Catholic churches - these are the main features of the Albigensian heresy, which reflected the protest of the masses against feudal-church orders.

Ah, now I understand what so oppressed the church fathers, and especially Augustine - this incomprehensibility, humiliating not only for common sense, but also for feelings, they could not understand, they hid their amazement in dogmas, abandoned their own reason, not knowing that the antinomy contained in technology, and not in the ethics of creation, appeared to them.

dogma about his divine inspiration?

How is the antinomy resolved between the so obviously compilatory nature of the Holy Scriptures and the Old Testament and dogma about his divine inspiration?

This means that Arago was taking with him dogmas, which he lived in order to cause them harm?

For everyone who did not agree with him in dogmas, called the holy and blessed teachers antichrists, wicked people, atheists, seducers, deceivers, dogs and traitors.

Although at one time Virchow said: until an artificial medium for cultivating Hansen’s bacillus is found, until then the infectiousness of leprosy cannot be introduced into dogma.

Witberg Temple as the main one Dogma Christianity, threefold and indivisible.

When King Ferdinand assembled the Cortes of the kingdom at Monzón, in the diocese of Lleida, in 1510, the deputies of cities and towns loudly complained of abuses of power on the part of the inquisitors, not only in matters of faith, but also in various matters outside dogma, what are usury, blasphemy, sodomy, bigamy, necromancy and other matters that are beyond their jurisdiction.

It is the doubt of evidence dogmas was the main reason for Abelard's condemnation.

Fortunately, Father Irenaeus turned out to be an amiable, intelligent man, not too rigid in dogmas faith and did not want to restrict the freedom of their young king.

Modern textbooks of dogmatic theology indicate that the word “dogma” has Greek roots and is translated as “consider”, “believe”, “think”. In addition, the perfect of the Latin verb “dedogme” has the meaning in Russian “determined”, “positioned”, “established”, “decided”.

The term dogma has a pre-Christian history. It was used by philosophers of the ancient period. Thus, Plato in his works called this term human concepts and ideas about the beautiful and just. In the works of Seneca, dogmas are the basic moral norms. In addition, philosophical truths that do not require proof, as well as state decrees and regulations, were called dogmas.

In the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament the word “dogma” is used in two ways:

• The Gospel of Luke tells about the decree of the ruler Augustus on the population census. Caesar's decree is called dogma. The Book of the Acts of the Holy Apostles calls the apostolic decrees of the Jerusalem Council "ta dogmata".


• The Apostle Paul uses this term to designate Christian doctrine in its entirety.

Thus, for the Christian Church of the 2nd - early 4th century, dogma was the name of the entire Christian doctrine, which included not only the basic tenets of faith, but also moral principles. The era of the Ecumenical Councils, which began in the 4th century, influenced the fact that only doctrinal truths began to be called dogmas. This was due to the formation of clear theological doctrinal formulations that were accepted by the Church from the moment of its founding. It is worth understanding that the very essence of the doctrine is called dogma, and the verbal formulation (“shell”) is called dogmatic formulation.

After the Seventh Ecumenical Council, dogmas began to be called those doctrinal truths that were approved at the Ecumenical Councils of bishops and clergy of the Christian Church. At their essence, dogmas are a boundary, a limit beyond which the human mind cannot go in thinking about God. Dogmas protect a person’s faith from false heretical teachings. So, for example, the dogma of two natures in Christ testifies to the faith of an Orthodox person that Christ is true God (in the full sense of the word) and man (the second Person of the Holy Trinity incarnate).

Christian Orthodox dogmas have certain properties, expressed in terms of doctrine, revelation of God, churchliness and legality (generally binding). Thus, dogma is a doctrinal truth accepted by the entirety of the Orthodox Church.

Sometimes dogmas and basic religious truths are difficult for the human consciousness to perceive. For example, it is impossible for people to fully comprehend with their minds the concepts of the uniqueness and Trinity of the Divine. Therefore, dogmas are called by some theologians a cross for the human mind.

An Orthodox person must understand that dogmas also have a practical purpose and contribute not only to correct thinking about God, but also to unity with Him and the desire for the Creator. Thus, church historian A.V. Kartashev in his work “The Age of Ecumenical Councils” writes:

Another remarkable theologian, V.N. Lossky, speaks directly about the purpose and importance of dogmas:

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Ushakov's Dictionary

Dogma

to gmat, dogma, husband.(from Greek dogma) ( books).

1. The main, indisputable statement in religious teaching. Dogma of papal infallibility (among Catholics).

2. trans. A separate position of some doctrine, scientific direction, which has a fundamental character.

Orthodoxy. Dictionary-reference book

Dogma

(Greek: "settled opinion")

a precisely formulated statement of the Orthodox faith. From a theological point of view, dogmas are objective truths. They do not introduce anything new into the revealed provisions of faith, but express in words the teaching that God gave to the Church in its entirety in Revelation and which the Church invariably preserves. The central place in Orthodoxy is occupied by the concept of human salvation, therefore dogmas reveal issues that are of fundamental importance for salvation. A dogmatic definition does not exhaust the content of a particular truth, but rather protects it from distortion. Dogmas are formulated and approved at church councils. New formulations (in response to questions that have arisen) are drawn up in such a way as to exclude interpretations that do not correspond to Orthodox dogma. The number of dogmas of the Orthodox Church is small. These are the dogma about the consubstantiality of the Persons of the Holy Trinity, about the general resurrection of the dead (adopted in the 4th century), the dogma about the image of the union of the Divine and human natures in the single person of Jesus Christ (adopted in the 5th century), the dogma about the veneration of icons (adopted in the 8th century .) etc.

Orthodox encyclopedic dictionary

Dogma

revealed truth taught by the Church as an indisputable and unchangeable rule of saving faith, based on Holy Scripture. A summary of Orthodox dogmas is given in the Creed.

Encyclopedic Dictionary

Dogma

1. in religion - a doctrine approved by the highest church authorities, declared by the church to be an immutable truth, not subject to criticism. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. have a system of dogmas.
2. Same as dogma.

Ozhegov's Dictionary

D ABOUT GMAT, A, m. A basic position in religious teaching, considered (by the church) to be an immutable truth and not subject to criticism. Dogmas of Christianity.

Efremova's Dictionary

Dogma

m.
The main position in religious teaching, taken on faith and not subject to
criticism.

Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron

Dogma

The meaning of this word, as a term used not only in Theology, is clarified from the sense in which it was used in ancient literature. Cicero used the word dogma to designate doctrines that, being generally known, had the meaning of undeniable truth. In this sense, Christian writers, for example. Origen and St. Isidore, Socrates was called a legislator Attic dogmas, the teachings of Plato and the Stoics - dogmas. According to Xenophon, dogma is a command of command, to which everyone, both commanders and ordinary soldiers, must unquestioningly obey. In Herodian it denotes the definition of the Senate, to which the entire Roman people must unquestioningly submit. This meaning of the word D. was retained in the Greek translation of 70 interpreters, where in the books of St. Daniel, Esther, Maccabees, the word δόγμα refers to a royal decree, subject to immediate execution, as well as a royal or state law, unconditionally binding on every subject. In the New Testament, in the Gospel of Luke, δόγμα is called Caesar's command to take a census of the population of the Roman Empire, in the book. The Acts of the Apostles are the royal laws, in the epistle to the Colossians and Ephesians the laws of Moses, which had divine authority. Then, in the book. Acts (XV, 20-28) for the first time the word δόγμα denotes those definitions of the church that should have indisputable authority for each of its members. From the use of this word by Ignatius the God-Bearer, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory of Nyssa, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Vincent of Lirinsky and other church fathers, the concept of D. is clarified in greater detail. For them: 1) D. is an indisputable divine (given through divine revelation) truth, and in this sense, the dogmas of faith are called God's (δ. τοΰ Θεοΰ), divine (δ. Θεία), Lord's (δ. τοΰ Κυρίου) and are opposed to products human, especially so-called speculative thinking and personal opinions; 2) D. is the truth relating to the internal essence of religion, i.e. the truth of theoretical, or contemplative, teaching, teaching of faith, how does it differ from rules of life or practical activity of a Christian; 3) being of divine origin, D. is the truth defined and formulated by the church, therefore dogmas are usually called church dogmas (τά τής έκκλησίας δόγματα), or church dogmas (τά έκκλεσιαστικά δόγματα), and 4) D. is the truth, the unconditional recognition of which is completely necessary for a Christian to rightfully consider himself a member of the church.

provisions taken on faith as an immutable truth, undeniable and unchangeable under any circumstances. The formulated dogmas specify the official doctrine of the church.

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DOGMA

R eligious – officially recognized foundations. religious provisions creeds, the confession of which is considered an indispensable condition for comprehending deity and “salvation.” The term "D." comes from the word dogma and means the position of religions. doctrine accepted blindly, on faith. The D. system is found in every established religion: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, etc. In Christianity, the first official. D.'s formulation was given in 325 at the Council of Nicea and amounted to the so-called. Nicene Creed. In 381, at the Council of Constantinople, the Nicene symbol was supplemented by a number of new D. and, together with these additions, formed the so-called. Nice-Tsaregrad symbol, including 12 basic. D. These include D. the unity and trinity of the deity, the Fall and redemption, the resurrection of Christ, the Last Judgment, etc. The Ecumenical Council of Constantinople adopted a special resolution that the rules it formulated must “forever” remain inviolable and unchangeable. Nevertheless, the move within the church. ideological and political struggle forced domination. in the church groupings to formulate new D. In connection with the struggle against the Monophysites, a D. on the two natures of Christ - human and divine - was adopted at the 4th Ecumenical Council, and the council addressed the imp. Marcian with an explanation that this new D. does not complement, but only “reveals” the creed. The struggle against the Monothelites led to the formulation by the 6th Ecumenical Council (681) of the Law on the two wills of Christ. In the fight against iconoclasm, the 7th Ecumenical Council (781) adopted a valid religious definition on the veneration of icons. The Orthodox Church formally settled on the laws adopted by the Ecumenical Councils, including the seventh. Catholic The church (see Catholicism) has repeatedly replenished the number of D., and the basis for the establishment of a new D. was not only the decision of the church. Council, but also the sole definition of Rome. the pope, since the latter is considered the infallible head of the church. This very infallibility of the pope is also a D. of Catholicism. In addition to this, Catholicism recognizes other Christians who are not accepted. D.'s religions about purgatory, about the immaculate conception of the Mother of God, about the procession of the Holy Spirit not only from God the Father, but also from God the Son, and certain others. In Protestantism there is no firmly established system of D., just as there is no center. church an institution, one of the functions of which would be the approval of these D. Initially, the dogma of Protestantism was distinguished by the fact that it was based only on the Bible and did not take into account the “sacred tradition”. However, since the Bible lends itself to various and often contradictory interpretations, Protestantism created a huge theological literature, the task of which was to introduce some kind of uniformity in the interpretation of the “truths of faith.” Orthodox Protestantism shows a tendency to regard as D. main. provisions of Luther's catechism. All Christ. The church considers Divine truths to be “divinely revealed” (see Divine inspiration), completely contained in the Bible and not subject to any changes. Recognition of one or another D. or refusal of such recognition is considered a monopoly of the church, and the infallibility of the latter, in particular, in matters of establishing and interpreting D., in turn, is D. In Judaism, Maimonides established 13 D. of faith, for example. about the eternity and omniscience of God, that the Messiah will come, etc. Subsequently, the number of D. in Judaism was reduced to three. I. Kryvelev. Moscow. V islame religion. Dogmatics took shape in scholasticism. theology - kalam. Basic D. Islam - the unity of God-Allah, who, according to the Koran, “neither begat nor was begotten, and there is no one equal to him” (Sura 112). The second D. is a prophet. the mission of Muhammad, who allegedly, by inspiration from above, informed the human race of deities. revelation recorded in the Koran. In addition, religious The doctrine of Islam is characterized by the doctrine of predestination, according to which all the deeds, words and thoughts of any person, even before the creation of the world, were predetermined by Allah. A person, according to Muslims. theologians, does not have free will, but has the ability to “acquire” righteous and sinful actions. V i n d u i s m e bas. D. are: recognition of the holiness of the Vedas, inequality of people, transmigration of souls, etc. E. Belyaev. Moscow. Theology in collaboration with the most reactionary. idealistic schools philosophy sets as its goal to create something like a “rational” justification for D. This is, in particular, a special task of the so-called. dogmatic theology. The solution to such a problem is fundamentally impossible, because the laws of any religion, when trying to analyze them in the light of reason, reveal their complete anti-science, irrationality, inconsistency and reactionaryness. Religious-dogmatic thinking, which tried to subjugate the consciousness of the masses, is completely destroyed by the development of scientific and atheistic knowledge, which refutes all kinds of D. I. Kryvelev. Moscow. Lit.: Harnack?., History of dogmas, in the book: General history of European culture, vol. 6, St. Petersburg, ; ? Rantsev Yu. P., At the origins of religion and free thought, M.–L., 1959; Seeberg R., Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte, Lpz., 1908; Dorner?., Grundriss der Dogmengeschichte, V., 1899; L?demann H., Christliche Dogmatik, Bd 1, Bern, 1924.

DOGMA(Greek “opinion, doctrine, definition, decree”) - the main provisions of the doctrine approved by the Church as the truths of God's revelation (see. God, Revelation), unchanged and not subject to criticism or change. D. does not include all the truths of Holy Scripture, but only those that leave the realm of faith (and not experience or morality) - for example, D. of monotheistic religions about the uniqueness of God; in religions that recognize Salvation - D. about the end of the world, while in Christianity - also D. about the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, Heaven and Hell, about the afterlife reward for man, and in Catholicism - also D. about purgatory ; in Islam - D. about the uncreatedness and pre-eternity of the Koran (the Koran “before the Creator is not a created thing”); D. about Muhammad as the “seal of the prophets”, about the Koran as a “completed prophecy”, etc. In Islam, the shortest summary of the main D. is contained in the 112th sura of the Koran, which is called “Purification (of faith)”: “In the name of Allah , merciful, merciful! / Say: “He is Allah - one, / Allah is eternal; / did not give birth and was not begotten, and not one was equal to Him!" The main D. of Islam are also set out in the first sura of the Koran "Fatiha" (literally "opening"). It consists of 7 verses and is included in the obligatory prayer of a Muslim, which is read at least 10 times a day.

The content of D. is given by Scripture, but their clear formulations were developed by theologians and approved by the highest church authorities. For example, different books of the New Testament speak more than once and in different ways about the unity of God the Father and God the Son; in D. the thought is formulated clearly and does not allow for variation: “The Son is consubstantial with the Father.” D. as the main doctrinal truths about God differ from the commandments (prescriptions) of Revelation and other religious truths and provisions (moral, liturgical, canonical) dependent on D. For example, the words “The Lord our God is one Lord” (Mark 12:29) is a D. (the subject of dogmatic theology), and the words “thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart” (Mark 12:30) is a commandment (the subject of moral theology).

D. how general church doctrinal truths differ from private “theological opinions” on various specific issues of faith not reflected in D. (for example, the question of how long hellish torment lasts; or how the incorporeality of angels and human souls should be understood , etc.). Theological opinions, including the opinions of the Church Fathers in Christianity or the authors of hadith in the Sunnah of the Prophet in Islam, do not have the property of infallibility. “The Church tolerates in its bosom sinners against the commandments, but excommunicates all those who oppose or exclude its dogmas,” as stated in the 19th century Orthodox encyclopedia.

From the dogmatic point of view, theological opinions are “not essential to our salvation”; as Gregory the Theologian noted, in such subjects “it is safe to make mistakes.” However, the Christian Church has always been cautious regarding free discussion of D. Modern Orthodoxy here follows the authorities of John Climacus (6th century) and Barsanuphius the Great (6th century): “The depth of dogmas is unsearchable [...] It is not safe for anyone who has any passion to touch theology”; “You shouldn’t talk about dogmas, because it’s above you.”

According to Orthodox doctrine, the process of dogmatization of the doctrine was completed at the first two Ecumenical Councils: Nicea (325) and Constantinople, Constantinople (381), which united the main doctrines in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. However, in Western Christianity, and later in Catholicism, which allows for the “dogmatic development” of doctrine, new doctrines were formulated, not recognized by the Orthodox Church: on the filioque (809), on purgatory (1439), on the Immaculate Conception (1854), on papal infallibility (1870), etc.

The communicative significance of the development of doctrine as a kind of “axiom of faith” is determined by the antinomy between the development of theological thought and the need for mass dissemination of the foundations of religious knowledge. The resolution of the conflict consisted in ranking theological knowledge according to the degree of universality and inviolability of its various components. A few major doctrinal truths were identified; they became D. All other judgments ("junior ranks" - less essential, less significant for religious doctrine as a whole, obligatory to varying degrees) constituted an area in which differences of opinion and, consequently, the development of theology were allowed. Dogmatization of the main religious truths is included in the range of psychological-semiotic and special philological mechanisms for preserving socially important information, such as sacralization of the text, exclusion (prevention) of rationalistic and conventional perception of the text (see. Unconventional perception of a sign); ritualization of text reproduction; the cult of primary sources, supported by the principle of “ipse dixit”, the development of a religious canon (see. Religious Communication), the obligatory nature of isnad in hadiths and other similar “preservatives” of particularly significant religious knowledge.