Word: creed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provoked an unprecedented dialogue with the church by proffering assurances that his party not only respects religion but sees it as a possible stimulus toward building a true socialist society. Criticizing religious "intolerence" in Eastern Europe, Berlinguer said-heresy of Communist heresies-that Marxism was not an "ideological creed" but an analytical method, and that his party was "lay and democratic, and as such not theist, atheist or antitheist...
...difficult to tell how many "born again" Christians there are in pagan Harvard, although HRCF figures help a little. Fellowship executives estimate there are about 70 to 100 core members of the group. Since one of the strong corollaries of the Christians' creed is the desirability of sharing their faith with others, they are most likely to be found in one or another of the University religious organizations, like a new Christian athletes group, small Bible seminars, a "discipleship" organized by the Fellowship, or in a more diverse group like the Catholic Student Center...
...resigning the office that he has on occasion observed to be more a burden than a joy. He fueled such discussion years ago by visiting the tomb of the reluctant Pope Celestine V, who abdicated the papacy.* Moreover, Paul revealed his attitudes on the aging when he de - creed that cardinals who reach age 80 are too old to vote on his successor - and that bishops who lead dioceses must submit resignations...
Kantzer, 60, an Evangelical Free Church clergyman, has led Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois as it has grown from 35 to 450 full-time students. He staunchly defends the idea that the Bible is wholly without error. Thi tenet is included in a creed that the magazine's board adopted last year, and retiring Editor Harold Lindsell has written a controversial book (TIME, May 10, 1976) assailing Evangelicals with less rigorous views...
...recite these venerable words about Jesus Christ each Communion service: "Very God of very God ... of one substance with the Father ... who for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man." These tenets of the Nicene Creed should be relegated to the ash heap, according to a new book by seven British theologians. Their attack on the ancient tradition has caused the country's biggest theological row in years...