Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing out of discussion groups on religion. They usually get lost in a labyrinth of confusion about mere dogmas. I have no interest in dogmas. My only religion is my own experience "Faith is substance." Religion is substance." Religion is certainty. Heaven...
...woman who has two living husbands. Dr. Fosdick opposes one of the fundamental precepts of the Presbyterian church, the virgin birth of Christ. I don't respect, I can't respect men like these, who stay in the church at the same time they are tearing down the faith of the church...
...believe that the college man, as well as the working man, has enough faith in the supernatural, in the miraculous, to credit the virgin birth of Jesus Christ," he continued. "The quarrel that I have with some of the hypotheses of science is the treatment of dogmatic evidence as though it were proven fact. The divinity and virgin birth of Christ are two of the most beautiful and satisfying thoughts of Christian religion, but since they are founded on faith alone, they have been attacked...
...years of priesthood" he says "I have seen most revolutionary changes in the thought of mankind. This has taught me that change is an element of human life. It is not to be feared, it is to be used. No discovery of science has taken from us our faith, but when we realize how our conception of the universe has been enlarged ten thousand times we have a conception of God ten thousand times greater nobler and more spiritual than was that of our fathers...
Hence, although he believes in the usefulness of creeds, Bishop Lawrence refuses to insist on the literal interpretation of any creed or of the Bible. Although he is personally inclined to accept the traditional idea of the Virgin Birth, he says its is not essential to Episcopal faith. Thus, before conservatives in the Episcopal Church can purge it of the so-called wheretics" they must settle with Bishop Lawrence...