Word: creed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christian renewal, the United Presbyterians believe, includes "the right and duty of a living church to restate its faith from time to time." Last week, in Columbus, Ohio, commissioners (delegates) to the church's 177th General Assembly voted 643 to 110 to accept in principle their first new creed since the Westminster Confession...
...Confession of 1967" - so called because it must be approved by the next two general assemblies and by two-thirds of the nation's 193 presbyteries before acceptance - runs to 4,200 words. The creed, along with seven historic Christian statements of faith,* will constitute a Book of Confessions that together define what Presbyterians believe...
...church confesses its faith when it bears a present witness to God's grace in Jesus Christ," says the preface to the new creed. Present witness demands strong affirmation that, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, and that God is in the church to complete this work of reconciliation. The confession does not attempt to redefine such traditional doctrines as the Trinity, but it does give a contemporary statement of what the church believes about Jesus of Nazareth (in him, "true humanity was realized once for all"), Christ as savior and judge...
...church is defined as the community of those entrusted with God's reconciling message, and the creed calls upon Christians to work toward the elimination of all racial or ethnic discrimination, world conflict and poverty in the midst of abundance. The church is to prepare for its mission through use of Christ's gifts: preaching and teaching, praise and prayer, baptism and the Lord's Supper-the permanent "equipment" of Christianity that can be changed and modified according to need...
...Normative" Bible. Church Historian Edward Dowey, Chairman of the 15-man committee that composed the creed, cheered the assembly's approval as "a new direction, a new birth...