Word: creedal
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...pressed to maintain their freedom of thought and action against "fundamentalists." They think liberals should become Unitarians and even charge them with intellectual dishonesty for not so doing. Their current literature and speeches express the wonder that men whose minds are open to Science can remain in the old creedal denominations. Celebration. But it was not the motes in their brothers' eyes which inspired the opening sermon delivered by Rev. Paul revere Frothingham Boldly he analyzed: "We want a divine inheritance and a spiritual birthright. To be willing to exchange it for a mess of scientific pottage indicates...
Said Dr. Fosdick: "... I must in all honesty set my longstanding and assured conviction that creedal subscription to ancient confessions of faith is a practice dangerous to the welfare of the Church and to the integrity of the individual conscience ... I sincerely regret ... so much uproar ... I am sending . . . my resignation...
Before Harvard audiences he has emphasized his super-creedal ideal. He has believed that a new era is at hand, in which traditional religion is breaking through its hard chrysalis of dogma and coming forth a changing, living faith in harmony with a changing, living world. For him, dogmas can not contain it. Creeds may fit it for the moment, but for a moment only. The aspirations of the new man rise higher; knowledge increases; thought advanced through an ever broadening vista: with the result that dogma and creed have ceased to express adequately for the new generation what they...
...Filene's statement continued, "I am in sympathy with an enterprise such as this, which, I am told, is giving 150,000 students in 16 war-ridden nations of Europe a chance to carry on with their studies. It is significant, I believe, that there are no creedal, racial, or national discriminations in the administration of this Fund. The world today needs some practical illustrations of the possibilities of applied idealism. This cooperation of the college youth of 36 nations in the Student Friendship Fund is one such illustration. I believe in that sort of thing...
...report was received with loud and prolonged applause. It was adopted unanimously. Henceforth, the creedal position of the Protestant Episcopal Church is as definite and clear as the latest and most exact...