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Tyrrell's very able book 'Lex Orandi. The test of truth for a dogma is not its correspondence with phenomenal fact, but its 'prayer-value. This writer, at any rate before his suspension by the Society of Jesus, to which he belonged, is less subversive in his treatment of history than the French critics whom we have quoted.
Although in apologetics the criterion for the acceptance of dogmas must, he thinks, be a moral and practical one, he sometimes speaks as if the 'prayer-value' of an ostensibly historical proposition carried with it the necessity of its truth as matter of fact.
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