Word: creedal
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...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...
...zeal, charity and genuine love of people" and his "noble thoughts against racial antipathy and creedal strife," the influential English-language weekly Jewish Advocate (circ. 30,000) tabbed as its man-of-the-year Boston's lanky, brisk Richard Cardinal Gushing...
...death with the public reading on June 25, 1530, of the Augsburg Confession. This official summation of the doctrinal position of the Lutherans was drawn up by Philip Melanchthon, Luther's wise and temperate friend, and like Luther a well-founded theologian. This and two later creedal statements are included in the Book of Concord of 1580 and supply the Lutheran answers to almost every spiritual problem the Christian soul is prone to-Anti-Trinitarianism, humanism, Pelagianism, synergism, determinism, Manichaeism, spiritualism, enthusiasm, sacerdotalism, sacramentalism, mysticism, asceticism, perfectionism, antinomianism, chiliasm, apocalypticism, Donatism, Novatianism...
Dillenberger stressed that the Divinity School has no creedal requirements; it is "non-sectarian in the exclusion of official partisanship for the tenets of any particular religious group within the Protestant framework...
...American Christianity often looks confused, lacking a truly creedal structure, and seeming to have no very clear conception of the place and role of Jesus as Savior and Redeemer...