Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Statement of Faith...
...belated but appreciative thank you for your July 20 report on the United Church of Christ. I mentioned in my sermon of last Sunday in reviewing the Oberlin General Synod how TIME had printed the adopted Statement of Faith, and its importance to all Protestants...
...confined to one political bloc," Hromadka explained that he had learned that "as a Christian. I must be prepared for any situation and not rely on established regimes . . . God is greater than the greatest of doctrine man can produce . . . I and my church continue to give testimony of faith. Regardless of conditions, we perpetuate the living church. We must love all men, whether they believe or not." Hromadka bemoaned Communism's atheism, which "weakens church prestige and authority, but also challenges churches to purify themselves." He admitted that "I have certain understanding of and sympathy for the Communists...
...must define one of the attributes of the Catholic Church. It is an institution that is both charismatic and canonical. It is the role of the prophets moved by the Holy Spirit to shed new light in applying the truths of faith to new situations. Because their visions are new, they are suspect, and it is then that the canonical side of the church operates to sift and codify the vision...
...trained no fewer than five topnotch university presidents, including Harvard's Nathan Pusey and Wesleyan's Victor Butterfield. In his new book, Academic Procession (Columbia; $4), President-emeritus Wriston, now head of Columbia's American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations, pleads for a continuing faith in the ever-revolutionary ideals of U.S. democratic education. He also deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum" comes from the Latin word for racecourse does not mean that just any foolish subject should...