Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christians who take their creed seriously, they matter a great deal. Last week, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, made that point clear. Before the solemn Convocation of Canterbury, he spoke bluntly to (and about) one of his bishops, the Right...
...told a reporter afterwards. Dr. Fisher plans to take no further action. But his rebuke of the free-thinking Bishop served a wider purpose: to remind all easy-going Anglicans that 1) what a man believes is as important as what he does, and 2) the Apostles' Creed means what it says, even if some of those who recite it don't think...
...pathetic comedy of the investigation stems from the fact that Hollywood is a business, and gladly neglects issues that will lose it customers. To come out for any unfashionable political creed, and especially Communism, would be unheard of by the conservative moguls who feed the public their weekly escape from life. So when Witness Menjou proudly declares that he prevented quantities of "sly, subtle, class-struggle propaganda" from sneaking into films, one can only wonder whether their almost total absence stems from his efforts...
...after his death, silent, shuffling throngs lined the sidewalks outside the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, walked in, passed slowly by his open, candle-flanked coffin. When the cathedral doors were finally closed at 11 o'clock at night, 45,000 people of every race, creed and walk of life had paid a final salute. The next day, 10,000 people jammed the cathedral to attend his funeral. Thousands more stood hatless under overcast skies as his funeral cortege moved with slow music to Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx...
...wrote Saint Paul, to whom God's grace was one of the cornerstones of his religion. In his epistles he referred to charis (grace) 100 times. What is grace? Neither the Apostles' nor the Nicene Creed defines it, and the nature of grace has been the subject of theological controversy since the Church was young. Those who want to hear more about it will welcome a little book, published last week, by the Church of England's Rev. Oscar Hardman-The Christian Doctrine of Grace (Macmillan...