Word: creedlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...development of this universal religion in order to break down today's tensions and so forward the sense of world community . . . ¶ We believe in the right of each individual to his own convictions. ¶ We believe that the Unitarian movement should reaffirm its tradition of a creedless church, and begin immediately to create and foster such fellowships of universal religion...
...With these words ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts last week fanned smoldering embers of discord in his church. The Christian Register, official publication of the American Unitarian Association, had bubbled with controversy over whether the insistently creedless Unitarians should at least bind themselves to a belief in God. But at the 124th annual meeting of the association, in Boston last week, the delegates voted to keep the argument off the floor, at least until next year...
...Washington, D.C. last week, 352 Unitarian ministers and laymen assembled for the eleventh General Conference of their tiny (69,000 members), creedless sect. Dressed according to their fancy, in everything from sporty tweeds to clerical collars, they met in the ivory-paneled auditorium of All Souls' Church for three busy days of resolution-passing...
...Gideons were up against a tough customer in the meticulously creedless U.S. public school system, where religious training tends to consist of a daily, Shintoesque pledge to the flag...