Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Religion should not enter into politics" [June 29]. Such a statement was surely put down by a hand acting independent of any rational influence. If religion should not enter into politics, it should not enter into economics or any other aspect of our society. In fact, we should not have religion at all, for if our religion does not influence our society, we are all hypocrites without convictions. On the other hand, if our elected representatives are to serve our interests, they cannot be in opposition to our religious views...
...Tired. In his exile at Mussoorie in northeast India, Tibet's rightful ruler, the Dalai Lama, declared that "wherever I am accompanied by my ministers, the people of Tibet look upon us as their government." His mild statement of sovereignty was attacked not by the Red Chinese but by his Indian hosts. Nehru's government sharply pointed out that there was no question of a Tibetan government-in-exile "under the Dalai Lama functioning in India," and seemed to concede that Tibet is an internal affair of Red China. Sounding both old and tired of it all, Prime...
...Arndt feels that the adoption of the Statement assures the merger's success. "If we can have such unanimity on sueh a level as faith, then certainly no problem of organization is insoluble...
Testimony, Not Test. The statement (see box) will be a testimony, not a test, of faith. Chiefly responsible for its text: Commission Chairman Dr. Elmer J. F. Arndt, professor of historical theology and Christian ethics at E. & R. Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, Mo. Said Arndt: "We wanted a statement that was genuinely Biblical, that was expressed in the words of our time, and that had the form and character to make it suitable for liturgical use. We found our efforts always turned out to be patterned on the Apostles' Creed: first we talk about God, the Creator...
...administrative road of union was rocky, the spiritual road was smooth and broad. The Commission to Prepare a Statement of Faith presented a 231-word document to the delegates, who passed it unanimously. Immediately after the vote, the delegates jumped to their feet-some laughing, many weeping-and burst spontaneously into the doxology: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow...