A system of principles laid down by an authority, especially the Roman Catholic Church, as incontrovertibly true.
‘it is a work of analysis, not of dogmatics’
‘As church dogmatics, as the faith of the community seeking understanding, theology is inherently communitarian.’
‘Almost single-handedly Karl Barth retrieved dogmatics for the mainstream of academic theology after its marginalization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.’
‘American neo-orthodoxy in the 1940s and 1950s typically meant a compound of Brunner's dogmatics, Niebuhr's theological ethics, and the scripture scholarship of the biblical theology movement.’
‘When done in spirit and in truth, both theology and worship alike, dogmatics and doxology, are a fitting tribute.’
‘‘It's the study of dogmatics, you know, universal truth, what you know as opposed to what you believe,’ he replies.’
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