Dogma: Zur Bedeutungsgeschichte des lateinischen Wortes in der christlichen Literatur bis 1500 (I. Teil)
The whole article gives in its two parts the history of the meaning of the word dogma in the Christian literature of the West up to the year 1500. This first part goes as far as about the year 600. Very probably it is not from Holy Scripture but through the Greek apologetic and antiheretical writing...
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
1976
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Gregorianum
Year: 1976, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 307-350 |
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| Summary: | The whole article gives in its two parts the history of the meaning of the word dogma in the Christian literature of the West up to the year 1500. This first part goes as far as about the year 600. Very probably it is not from Holy Scripture but through the Greek apologetic and antiheretical writings that the word dogma has come into Latin Christian literature. Pagan Latin literature through Cicero and Seneca may have encouraged this movement. But the extent of their influence must be more exactly investigated. In the first three and a half centuries one finds the word but rarely; it seems there was no need for its use. It is only from 370/380 that it begins to impose itself through Jerome, Rufinus, Augustine and to a much lesser degree through Ambrose. The word means teaching and reminds one of the head of a school, whose teaching is taken over by his followers. Dogma is employed mostly for an heretical teaching, but can also be used for a Christian, pagan, Jewish or philosophical teaching. The end of this period sees in some regions and writers a clearly marked shift to the predominantly Catholic, ecclesiastical sense of the word's meaning, particularly in Vincent of Lerin, but it swings back finally again to the centre of gravity of the meaning it had in the time of the Fathers of the Church. |
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