Commonitory10 and among Protestant theologians like Sohnius, Ursinus, Hyperius, Tolanus, and others.11 The use of the word dogma teaches us, in the first place, that a wide range of commands, decisions, truths, propositions and rules for living can be denoted by it. Nonetheless, the element that they all have in common is that dogma consistently stands for something that is established and not subject to doubt. Cicero, therefore, correctly characterizes it12 as something stable, fixed, reasoned