Apologetics vs Dogma - What's the difference?
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The field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position, or of religious or occult doctrines
An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.
A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
As an adjective apologetics
is .As a noun dogma is
.apologetics
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(wikipedia apologetics)Noun
(-)dogma
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(wikipedia dogma)Noun
(en-noun)- ''The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as law.
- In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ''ex cathedra'' to make them part of the official faith.