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Evangelism vs Dogma - What's the difference?

evangelism | dogma |

As nouns the difference between evangelism and dogma

is that evangelism is sharing news of something in order to convince someone to join or otherwise accept it while dogma is an authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.

evangelism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Sharing news of something in order to convince someone to join or otherwise accept it.
  • The process of evangelizing.
  • dogma

    English

    (wikipedia dogma)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.
  • ''The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as law.
  • A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * dogmatic * dogmatical * dogmatics * dogmatic theology * dogmatism * dogmatist * dogmatize

    See also

    * axioma * creed