Word: creed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week these commissions published, from Boston, their joint recommendations: "We believe the basis of vital Christian unity is a common acceptance of Christianity as primarily a way of life [i. e., a moral code]. Assent to an official creed is not essential. Within the circle of fellowship created by loyalty to the common Master there may exist differences of theological opinion. With that primary loyalty affirmed, such differences need not separate; rather, indeed, if the mind of the Master controls, they may enrich the content of faith and experience...
...influence of Harvard men can make a significant contribution to the future development of the world. We do not approve of coercive measures designed to persuade believers in other religions to accept Christianity and least of all do we approve of showing partiality toward the activities of any one creed or sect...
...selecting our speakers this year we have given no thought to the particular creed which any of them professed and we have welcomed to our meetings students of all religious faiths. Our annual Christmas greetings are sent to five hundred graduates of Harvard engaged in educational, evangelical, agricultural and medical work abroad, regardless of their religious affiliations. Our educational project, the Daily Vacation Bible School, which we support each summer for the children of Cambridge, is conducted by a non-sectarian organization, its faculty is selected on a non-sectarian basis and the school is actually attended by Catholics...
...picturesquely through the air on broomsticks. They smeared each other with an irritant ointment, danced and leaped high with sticks between their legs, thereby exciting themselves for the orgy which closed all witches "Sabbats" (Congresses). Withal, they zealously professed a kind of religion, a perverted Gnostic creed that postulated the Devil equal part-creator of the universe with God and more ready to reward his adorants with the things of this world than was the self-styled "jealous" Father...
...years his writings on juvenile sociologv have been chiefly confined to specific discussion of cases arising in his social clinic, with strong but never revolutionary suggestions to society at large. But last week, when the February Red Book reached newsstands, Judge Lindsey laid before the country his creed. First popular U. S. sociologist of national reputation to do so, Judge Lindsey came out flat-footed for 1) trial or "companionate" marriage; 2) birth control...