Word: creed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken from us our faith," but "when we realize how our conception of the universe has been enlarged ten thousand times, we have a conception of God ten thousand times greater, nobler and more spiritual than was that of our fathers." Hence, although he believes in the usefulness of creeds, Bishop Lawrence refuses to insist on the literal interpretation of any creed, or of the Bible...
Here are the four great creed-bearing* denominations of Protestantism in the U. S. Today they have one thing in common: a dispute. It is a dispute between old-timers and new-timers. The old-timers call themselves Fundamentalists. The new-timers don't call themselves anything, but they are called Modernists. This fact is of elementary importance. It reveals that the old-timers are organized, that the new-timers are not. The old-timers are forcing the new-timers to organize. Last week, as never before, clergymen throughout the country began to "take sides...
...Theological School, stated, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "that the House of Bishops which met in Dallas, Texas, on November 14, issued a Pastoral Letter which is causing the present discussion within the Episcopal Church. The Pastoral Letter implies that a strict construction of the Apostle's Creed is alone permissable, particularly a strict construction of the clause 'conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary...
...Dean went on to say that certain people believe "that the Episcopal Church is hospitable to such interpretations of the various clauses of the creed as express the fundamental spiritual meaning of the clauses, including the clause which refers to the Virgin Birth...
...rather than they? Young men will think if they are given something to think about; and most young men, although they hesitate to admit it in their more flippant moments, think about religion. Any attempt to confine their religious beliefs within the narrow scope of a literally-interpreted, ancient creed is likely to meet with failure, for such an attempt means death to thought and perhaps--to the church...