Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that one a sacrament suffused with almost Roman Catholic mysticism. The wine and unleavened bread used during the Holy Communion to one congregation will represent Blood & Body only for the few minutes of the service, to another congregation they remain Blood & Body forever after consecration (the Roman Catholic tenet). Those Protestant Episcopalians (in England members of the Church of England) who desire full & mystic rituals call themselves Anglo-Catholics. Incidentally, they are the ones who wish a strongly centralized church government for their denomination...
...years ago, however, the Church elders decided that modern, advertised "athletic" underwear, short and buttoned, violated no tenet. But their decision vexed many an oldtime believer, among them Mr. Feil, aged...
Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy (1821-1910) twice widowed, once divorced, created a sect that now shows all signs of permanency. Its central tenet, as everyone knows, is that spirit alone is real. Matter is the projection of mind; disease, "error" of thought. Members of her Church of Christ, Scientist, come to meetings. "Readers" recite sections of Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures; at certain services fellow-believers rise and tell "experiences," express thanks for "favors" done them in misery. They have the consolation of being well regimented in one of 2,200 Christian Science congregations...
...over 40% are non-Christian theists, and the balance are either agnostics or atheists. All this, of course, on the assumption that Dartmouth students are keen enough to know what they are. The fact that 455 said they are active church members while only 330 subscribe to the distinguishing tenet of Christianity indicates that the boys are not sure what they...
Fundamentalism. A most elementary and powerful tenet of the Baptist faith insists that, to be received into the fold, an applicant must be completely immersed in holy water. Yet certain churches?most particularly the Park Avenue Baptist Church of Manhattan, pastored by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, attended and largely financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.?have formed a practice of admitting members from other denominations without immersion, accepting a profession of faith as an equivalent of the ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton...