Word: creedal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions of ordinary Christians, there is no real reason to worry or debate the Trinity, the Resurrection or any other doctrine. Billy Graham does not want to tamper with what the Bible says or find new verbal "packages" for what the creedal formulas profess. "In my evangelistic crusades," he says, "I have found that thousands upon thousands of people on every continent will eagerly listen to the same Gospel that Paul preached in the 1st century...
Both churches avoid making creedal demands on their members, stressing right feeling rather than right belief. This intellectual open-door policy seems to appeal to the men of a new age of science. Many of the delegates in Washington were scientists, and both Harvard and M.I.T. are considered by Greeley to be "good soil" for producing converts. The Unitarian Church in Albuquerque is composed almost entirely of Atomic Energy Commission employees. In Schenectady, N.Y., 75% of the members of the city's Unitarian church are technicians on the General Electric payroll. Says Unitarian Greeley: "We have more than...
...creeds were formulated to combat certain early heresies, said Miller, but "we are no longer surrounded by Arians, Appollinarians, Patripassians and Eutychians . . .* Today's challenge for more precise etymological definitions of our faith comes from materialism, secularism and Communism. Imposed creedal orthodoxy will not suffice. I love the creeds. I recite them, and I think I have overcome honestly the intellectual obstacles they raise. But when anyone tries to tell an Episcopalian that he is unequivocally - which means without variety of interpretation - committed to a particular creed. I can only remind him of the wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead...