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The concept of dogma has two elements: 1) the public revelation of God, which is divine revelation as contained in sacred scripture (the written word) and sacred tradition, and 2) a proposition of the Catholic Church, which not only announces the dogma but also declares it binding for the faith.
- The Unity and Trinity of God. God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things. God's existence is not merely an object of rational knowledge, but also an object of supernatural faith.
- God the Creator. All that exists outside God was, in its whole substance, produced out of nothing by God. God was moved by his goodness to create the world.
- God the Redeemer. Jesus Christ is true God and true Son of God. Christ assumed a real body, not an apparent body. Christ assumed not only a body but also a rational soul.
- The Mother of the Redeemer. Mary is truly the Mother of God. Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin. Mary is the Immaculate Conception.
Jan 4, 2019 · In contemporary Catholic theology, a dogma is a truth that has been infallibly defined by the Church’s Magisterium to be divinely revealed. However, the term has had many other meanings in the course of history. Originally, the Greek term dogma meant “opinion,” “belief,” or “that which seems right.”. By the first century, it often ...
Sep 18, 2012 · In current Catholic usage, the term “dogma” means a divinely revealed truth, proclaimed as such by the infallible teaching authority of the Church, and hence...
DOGMA. Doctrine taught by the Church to be believed by all the faithful as part of divine revelation. All dogmas, therefore, are formally revealed truths and...
The word dogma (Gr. dogma, from dokein) signifies, in the writings of the ancient classical authors, sometimes, an opinion or that which seems true to a person; sometimes, the philosophical doctrines or tenets, and especially the distinctive philosophical doctrines, of a particular school of philosophers (cf. Cic. Ac., ii, 9); and sometimes, a ...
Major dogmas and doctrines. The Roman Catholic Church in its formula of baptism still asks that the parents and godparents of infants to be baptized recite the Apostles’ Creed as a sign that they accept the basic doctrines of the church and will help their children grow in the Catholic faith.
