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02-14-2007 11:00
 
Creedal Thing
Marshall, 
 
Thanks so much for the clarification, and it was not too long. I actually started recalling some things from my previous life at seminary in my distant past. Since Baptists and Quakers (my religious background) are not hierarchical, both follow a version of the "priesthood of the believer", and each meeting or congregation is independent in all matters, the concepts of doctrine, dogma, and creeds were not so clear. I was confusing dogma and creeds. Your explanation was quite helpful.  
 
For the purposes of the article I wrote, I believe I would need to modify it to include dogma as well as creeds as an attempt to "glue the tuning pegs on your zither". Would it not be true that dogma, like creeds, requires an authoritative structure to impose itself on a group. Or to say it differently, would not a dogma require the interceding of an authority between you and god? Otherwise, one person's dogma is another person's heresy and the terms lose any useful meaning.
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