church dogma
Official faith tenets
Church dogma refers to the official doctrines and beliefs a church declares to be absolute truth, binding on all members.
In Catholic usage especially, dogma carries the weight of divine revelation—to reject it is heresy.
More broadly, the phrase often carries skeptical overtones, suggesting rigid belief immune to questioning: He treated every church dogma as literally true.
- BibleChristian sacred writings
- papacyPope's office and authority
- catechismReligious teaching guide
- articles of faithFoundational beliefs of doctrine
- creedStatement of belief
worship · orthodoxy · scripture · divine revelation · sacred tradition · canon law · schism · excommunication · anathema · liturgy · infallibility · ex cathedra · synod · apocrypha · Eucharist · baptism · Nicene Creed · apostles creed
- Catholic doctrineTrinity, original sin, transubstantiation, purgatory, indulgences
- theologyecclesiology, eschatology, Christology, God, dogmatics
- creedsNicene Creed, Apostles' Creed, Athanasian Creed, creed, credo
- papal authoritypapal infallibility, papal authority, ex cathedra, papal supremacy, Holy See
church dogmamystical experience
Profound encounter beyond ordinary perception
inner light · private devotion · personal revelation · folk religion · spiritual seeking
church dogmafree inquiry
Unrestrained pursuit of knowledge
freethought · heterodoxy · open-mindedness · skepticism · critical thinking
church dogmarationalism
Reason as knowledge source
atheism · secular humanism · freethought · scientific method · empiricism
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