Word: predestinationism
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Since faith is primarily a way of life rather than a creed to be so proclaimed, it is not something that can be reduced to an articulated set of principles. In an age of ecumenical breakthrough and doctrinal pluralism, sectarian particularities of belief seem largely irrelevant and even a little...
And what do the lines mean? What is the relation between the palm and the future? Many people think that palmistry is a matter of predestination: that the palm indicates exactly what will happen in a lifetime. It is my belief, however, that the palm, if read accurately, gives a...
Stieglitz had gone to Berlin to study engineering, but one day day he noticed a camera in a store window. He went inside and bought it. From that time, the camera "fascinated me, first as a passion, then as an obsession," Stieglitz wrote later. "The camera was waiting for me...
The principal argument against the Confession of 1967-the first new statement of the church's faith since the 1647 Westminster Confession-is that it betrays rather than updates traditional Presbyterian beliefs. Conservatives claim that it downgrades the Bible from the infallible word of God to a mere "normative...
Most United Presbyterians are backing the doctrinal updating. "We decided in the 1920s that we would not be a fundamentalist church, but a conservative, Biblically oriented church that was not rigidly literalist," says the church's chief administrative officer, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake. And predestination? "No, I don...