Dogma vs. Doctrine

Dogmanoun

An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.

Dogmanoun

A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.

Dogmanoun

That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.

Dogmanoun

A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.

Dogmanoun

A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.

Dogmanoun

a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

Dogmanoun

a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative;

Dogma

Dogma in the broad sense is any belief held with undefended certainty. It may be in the form of an official system of principles or doctrines of a religion, such as Roman Catholicism, Judaism, or Protestantism, or atheism, as well as the positions of a philosopher or of a philosophical school such as Stoicism.

Doctrinenoun

(countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.

Doctrinenoun

The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group or text.

Doctrinenoun

Teaching; instruction.

Doctrinenoun

That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.

Doctrinenoun

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Doctrine

Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina, meaning ) is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the essence of teachings in a given branch of knowledge or in a belief system. The etymological Greek analogue is .Often the word doctrine specifically suggests a body of religious principles as promulgated by a church.