Synonyms:
dogma, tenet
Meaning: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
Usage examples
The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.
A mere sentence will show with what view I regarded the dogma of non-intervention when that amendment was offered.
And while one is grinding such chaff in the theological mill, he may as well have a turn at the Atonement, which is, in fact, the essence of the dogma of the Incarnation.
It is a lifeless verbal prejudice of which the original life and beginning was not in the freedom of thought, but simply in the dogma of materialism. The man of the nineteenth century did not disbelieve in the Resurrection because his liberal Christianity allowed him to doubt it. He disbelieved in it because his very strict materialism did not allow him to believe it.