Word: virginities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...begin with--are men (Dr. Parks, Bishop Lawrence, or even a layman, it makes no difference who); are they justified in saying every Sunday, "I believe . . . and in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord, Who was born of the Virgin Mary . . .", and then turning directly round by denying the Virgin Birth? I can think of nothing to call such action but plain lying and hypocrisy. If anyone can find honesty and consistency in it, I should be glad to see his reasoning--but I fear it will have to be a mass of quibbles...
...Religion, there is naturally discord. It is as if one tried to play a violin with a saw. But that is enough of generalizations on this point; now for particulars. "How," you say, "can a man who agrees with scientific thinking agree also with the idea of the Virgin Birth, which Science and experience show to be impossible?" If you speak thus, you forget another part of "Scientific thought", a part which holds that Science and experience have shown little with likelihood of surety, and nothing with certainty of it. Hence the Virgin Birth cannot be counted out on that...
...Texas, on November 14, issued a Pastoral Letter which is causing the present discussion within the Episcopal Church. The Pastoral Letter implies that a strict construction of the Apostle's Creed is alone permissable, particularly a strict construction of the clause 'conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary...
...Dean went on to say that certain people believe "that the Episcopal Church is hospitable to such interpretations of the various clauses of the creed as express the fundamental spiritual meaning of the clauses, including the clause which refers to the Virgin Birth...
...Parks is one of many liberal clergymen who are banding together for the protection of the Reverend Lee W. Heaton of Ft. Worth, Texas, who is to be tried for heresy. Reverend Heaton's disbelief in the doctrine of the virgin birth is shared by so many powerful and influential clergymen that this controversy promises to cause a serious split in the church unless the conservative element retreats...