Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church. ¶ We believe in the 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...
President Conant then went on to reaffirm the "no inquiry" policy set forth by Grenville Clark in letters published in the Alumni Bulletin this week...
...November 30, however, Dean Margaret Kiely, acting as president in the absence of Klapper, declared her opposition to giving A.Y.D. another charter. Four days afterwards, the faculty voted 67 to 40 to reaffirm its ban on the organization...
...fact denying it ... Officers and members of churches have been arrested and imprisoned on an ever-increasing scale . . . We see ... a deliberate attempt to undermine the strength of churches by forcing them either to withdraw completely from public life or to become tools of secular policy . . . We reaffirm . . . that every person has the right to express his religious beliefs...
...slightness of the change showed the strength of Amsterdam's realization that the war had turned much of the world leftward and that the churches, if they are to spread their influence, must do more than reaffirm the prewar status quo. The forcefulness of the statement, compared to earlier ecumenical pronounce ments, showed that a new leadership was rising in the new World Council. In the top flight of that leadership is Bishop Oxnam...