Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Personal Corporeal Presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Heaven" is the name of a new dogma which, it is confidently said, and equally confidently denied, Pope Pius XI will promulgate this year. This dogma would raise the Blessed Virgin to an even higher place in Catholic thought than she now occupies. According to one view, it will establish her on the throne of Heaven equal with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...example, although he is personally inclined to accept the traditional idea of the Virgin Birth, he says it is not essential to Episcopal faith...
...Permissive Creeds," in place of obligatory, is the proposal of the Faculty of the Episcopal Theological School, of Cambridge, Mass., of which Bishop Lawrence was once head. Thus, creeds with and without affirmation of the Virgin Birth, would be accepted by the Church. "The Church is greater than the creeds." This idea coincides with Bishop Lawrence's famous utterance : "I cannot define the Triune God," and, from a different point of view with Voltaire's remark: "I will believe in God if you will stop trying to define him." Liberals contend that the spirit of Jesus cannot be caught...
...Sunday sermons in their churches, nor do they often grace the front pages of their magazines and newspapers--except in advertisements. No, we have been admitted to the higher conception, and need no longer rest our belief upon such material matters. And as to the question of the Virgin Mary, which has lately aroused such animated discussion, it is hard to see just what difference an affirmative or negative decision can make in our faith. Is it not possible for one to be a good Christian without regard for whether one believes in the trimmings of Christianity that so attract...
...publicity all his life. "Physically and spiritually it hurts my eyes." He received promptly the confidence of his vestry and the majority of his congregation. It is generally admitted both by the conservatives and liberals who heard Dr. Parks' sermon that he did not personally deny the virgin birth and that the Bishop will be unable to bring him to trial for heresy...