Word: creedal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because we are non-creedal, individual Unitarians may consider themselves Christians (vague or otherwise), but few do. Our basic emphasis is on this world, this day, this individual-whatever the larger relationships...
...finding what they seek in liberal churches or synagogues. Since the mid-1960s, mainstream Protestantism particularly has slipped in numbers. Together with liberal forms of Catholicism and Judaism, the progressive Protestant denominations are hoist with their own petard. Their very creedal flexibility precludes the certitude that attracts converts. In fact, believes California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, Christianity may be losing its power to grip the imagination. "We have become imageless," he says. "We have no symbols like Moses' passage through the Red Sea. We are empty people. The elements of mystery in the church have been...
...real Second Coming, preferring to view the apocalyptic literature as a metaphor, a prefiguring of an eventual victory of Christ's redemptive power over the forces of evil. Roman Catholicism, in whose theology the Second Coming is known as Parousia, generally tends to accept the ancient creedal statements at face value but in interpretation holds a multitude of views, ranging from the transcendent visions of Teilhard de Chardin to literal belief in the final terrors...