Word: credos
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Instead, some members of the society embrace the credo of the Reverend Herbert Daughtry, the pastor of Miller's Church in New York City. Daughtry represents an unsystematic synthesis of conservative Christian theology, Black culture and radical economics. Viewing the practice of theology as emancipatory politics, the Pentecostal minister calls for Blacks to unite progressive forces to challenge the present profit-motive emphasis of the country. He likens present-day Black unrest and struggles to that of major Biblical characters who fought against injustice; according to Daughtry such a challenge is, in fact, the will of God. "In the West...
...renaissance man. "Nothing is wasted and every experience is used at least once," he once said; and the relish with which he approached the projects he worked on--including his practice as a foremost cardiology specialist and his well-received novel, The Wanting of A. L. Levine--put his credo onto practice...
This is nothing less than an artistic credo, a point that readers today can appreciate more readily than the students of Literature 311-312. The enormous success of Lolita in 1958, which freed Nabokov from teaching, made most people aware for the first time that he had practically a lifetime of such writing behind him. Had the students only known it, their professor was not only explaining Dickens or Flaubert or Kafka. With his quirky insights, his cunning traceries and meticulous diagrams, he was also charting the mind of another great novelist: himself. -By Christopher Porterfield
Wheaton's rules are more troublesome in recruiting faculty. Beyond personal behavior, Wheaton teachers must sign a 1926 credo including the belief that the Bible is "verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing " A clause insisting on Creationism and a literal Adam and Eve was added in the 1960s. Says Biology Chairman A.J. Smith: "We study Darwin's theory, but that doesn't mean we advocate it." President Hudson T. Armerding notes that the rules and pledges sometimes make it hard to hire sociology teachers...
...this anecdote, Fuller loves to emphasize that the Israelis are survivors. This same heavy-handed irony slips into The Big Red One only in the final scene, when Fuller cannot restrain his narrator (Fuller himself, since the film is largely autobiographical) from underlining the message about survival. Fuller's credo is a realistic twist of the cliche of sportsmanlike competition: it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you live...