Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fiske took up the scientific arguments for and against the theory of immortal life and from these arguments sought to deduce and prove the reasonableness of man's faith in the future existence...
...Fremantle gave the fourth of the William Belden Noble lectures last night on the subject. "The Bearing of Creeds and Confessions of Faith on Social Progress" He said in part...
...Greeks called the creeds symbols, that is, signs or watchwords. A single word, like Amen, Hallelujah, or the Dervishes' cry "La illah 'llah" (no God but God) kindles enthusiasm when pronounced by many together with conviction. So the Christian creeds, believed and outspoken produce mutual confidence and strengthen faith and zeal...
...source of all beneficence. The position we claim for the Son must not be so much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith" like St. Paul, as "Faith which worketh by love," and election as a call to service on behalf of mankind. Even the doctrines of the Council of Trent may be purified by this moralization: the Papacy becomes the assertion...
...William Belden Noble Lectures. IV. The Creeds and Confessions of Faith. The Hon. and Very Rev. W. H. Fremantle, D.D., Dean of Ripon. Brooks House...