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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...
...Life. What explains the prosperity of Islam? One reason, certainly, is its simplicity. Islam has neither hierarchy nor organization: its creed is a simple affirmation that there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet. Undemanding in doctrine, Islam calls upon its adherents, if they wish to be rewarded at the Last Judgment, to praise God five times a day while kneeling toward Mecca, fast during the holy month of Ramadan, abstain from alcohol and pork, give alms, and, if possible, make the hajj. Man's sexual nature is amply served by Islam, which permits four wives...
...Shavian iconoclasm-the tactics by which modern man burglarizes himself of an agelong heritage of mystery. In this 34-year-old play, revived by APA-at-the-Phoenix, the late French Playwright Jean Giraudoux, an urbane, witty, and ironic second-story man of ideas, remains true to his dramatic creed: Be clever and let who will be good...
...notebook. Hopefully, a few rare "kilo-cepts" and "multicepts"-cepts so basic they can be applied in many courses and to almost any historical period-may turn up among them, although Tenner has been able to identify only 17 kilocepts during his four years at Princeton. Examples: "A determinist creed induces not fatalism, but the will to assist in the accomplishment of some irresistible destiny"; "Obscure third-rate thinkers are historically more important than great thinkers...
...lives in New York, has been comfortably labeled the greatest living master of Yiddish prose-a judgment that is a kind of dismissal. But The Family Moskat, unavailable for many years and now reissued, makes clear his right to stand among the important contemporary novelists of any creed or any language...