Word: athanasian
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...Father must not mean Creator merely, but the Righteous Friend and Lover of men, the source of all beneficence. The position we claim for the Son must not be so much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith" like St. Paul, as "Faith which worketh by love," and election as a call to service on behalf of mankind. Even the doctrines...
...very safe for any such to approach him. A man recently called on him with some manuscripts, professing to be autographs of some of the early Fathers of the church. He exposed the pretensions of several without losing his composure; but when at last the original manuscript of the Athanasian Creed, in the writing of St. Athanasius (!), was produced, he called his visitor's attention to a large club in the corner of the room, and pointed significantly towards the door, by which the terrified man made his escape with some precipitation. We may venture to mention here a piece...
...addressed the Unitarian Club at their meeting Wednesday evening. Speaking of the advantage of publishing non-Unitarian books by the society, he said that the Andover Creed, for instance, published at full length and widely circulated, would help the cause of Unitarianism; also the Thirty-nine Articles and the Athanasian Creed, or one of Jonathan Edwards' sermons on the delights of the blest in looking over the parapets and viewing the tortures of those in hell, for instance. Regarding the subject of religion and politics, he said that the two are in this country indissolubly associated; that the love...