Word: creedal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twice addressed as "Father," but they will be pleased that the Deity is described as being "like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child." Moreover, belief that the Holy Spirit "calls women and men to all ministries of the church" is for the first time elevated to creedal status alongside such fundamental matters as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And the soothing assertion that the Holy Spirit "sets us free to accept ourselves" is more akin to pop psychology than to the stern confessions of yore. What would John Calvin...