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 1 1    |                    be known -the notions of "dogma" and ''authority" are now
 2 1    |                       Thus to speak today of dogma as a common andindeed regulatory
 3 1    |                     all. it can be said that dogma and authority areconsidered
 4 1    |                      as being the powerwhich dogma produces and directs, while
 5 1    |                  produces and directs, while dogma expresses sufficientlythe
 6 1    |                 lastobservation, namely that dogma expresses "sufficiently"
 7 1    | successfulcharacterisation of the essence of dogma, as shall be seen below.~
 8 1    |               morecomplicated. For, therein, dogma is not a notion which has
 9 2    |                different notions of the term dogma~The term dogma (from the
10 2    |                      the term dogma~The term dogma (from the verb 'doko' meaning "
11 2    |                  meaning and uses of theword dogma can be highlighted in Christianity.
12 2    |                  most fundamental meaning of dogma is of coursementioned in
13 2    |                 indicative of the essence of dogma, as the point ofcrystallisation
14 2    |                    feature of the essence of dogma is a conditio sinequa non
15 2    |                    Church concerningsynergy.~Dogma signifies, then, a generally
16 2    |                     When posed in theplural, dogma means the individual and
17 2(1) |                      development ofthe term "dogma". see N. Xexakis, Foreword
18 2    |         differentiationbetween the notion of dogma becomes apparent. On the
19 2    |         andtheoretical truth under the term "dogma" is similarly embodied in
20 2    |                 ofexpressions in the Church, dogma is declared and confessed
21 2    |                     witness to the faith. If dogma were notembodied each time,
22 2    |             specialised meaning of the term "dogma"which refers not to all
23 2(6) |                       we consider the title "Dogma andrational thought", in
24 2(6) |                    the theologian approaches dogma in the Church, butrather
25 2(6) |               section to have had the title "Dogma and theconscience of the
26 2    |                   the irregular formation of dogma in theChurch on the other,
27 2    |                     teaching and maintaining dogma in the Church even morelucid,
28 2    |                    third meaning of the term dogma. Throughregular and continuous
29 2    |                     example, the Trinitarian dogma is first of all what the
30 2    |                  Synodical Decrees. Yet this dogma is characterised by theentire
31 2    |                     study of the Trinitarian dogma will not finish untilthe
32 2    |                   three meanings of the term dogma mentioned sofar, the four
33 2    |                    not officiallydeclared as dogma in Synods, either because
34 2    |                  meaning and use of the term dogma is used in modern Greek,
35 3    |                      Theanthropicvalidity of dogma~In an attempt to promote
36 3    |                   the inviolate character of dogma in the midst of thegeneral
37 3    |                 authenticity and validity of dogma, unthinkingly usingthese
38 3    |                     of the deeper essence of dogma which -as hasbeen already
39 3    |                     and binding character of dogma, but ratherthe "fatherhood"
40 3    |                 meaning of the"authority" of dogma, as its transcendent starting
41 3    |                      and binding characterof dogma for the faithful, as a product
42 3    |             transcendent originand source of dogma - to which its strength
43 3    |             consolidation of the validity of dogma. Being inthe salvific, theandric
44 3    |                    thefurther formulation of dogma, we mean that the truths
45 3    |                     human-Divine validity of dogma is based and,through these,
46 3    |                     Theanthropic validity of dogma which is continuously beingverified
47 3    |                 establishing the validity of dogma which is theissue at hand.~
48 3(13)|                    the title"Incarnations of Dogma".~
49 3    |                      Divine-human validityof dogma, we are not able to say
50 3    |            impression is thatthe validity of dogma - which it has of itself -
51 3    |                    and formativeinfluence of dogma on all activities of the
52 3    |                   and sacredness of the very dogma whichthey live out. Is this
53 3    |                  theDivine-human validity of dogma.~If all of this is true
54 3    |                perpetually "irrigate" Church dogma, so that the faithwill always