Download or read book The Survival of Dogma written by Avery Dulles and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A distinguished theologian examines the role of faith, authority and dogma in this thoughtful and remarkably unified collection of essays and addresses. In this era of dramatic, often disturbing change both within and outside the Church, Avery Dulles finds that too many committed Christians are hampered by their lack of a sense of history. Believing that the Church's teachings and institutions have remained unchanged since the earliest days of Christianity, they tend to regard the old as sacred and the new as profane; they feel that the only options open to them are servile conformism of defiant rebellion. Father Dulles rejects this polarization, pointing our that dramatic changes in society at large have always brought equally far-reaching changes in the Church. From this perspective, he discusses a broad range of subjects, such as faith and the logic of discovery, authority and diversity in the Christian community, the contemporary magisterium, the permanence of prophecy and the "irreformability" of dogma - demonstrating his firm belief that the changes now occurring are not only desirable, but necessary for giving the Church a relevancy it has not had in this century." --