Word: creed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...yellow pad on which he listed all the problems that he should be worrying about-"as many as 70 to 80 worries at a time," a friend recalls. Some of the worries went away, some were solved, some blossomed into full-scale crises. But the sum total verified his creed that forethought should be a foundation stone of U.S. foreign policy. In a complex and changing world, he argues, it is not enough to think about problems and challenges as they arise. "We are going to have to aim at the future," he says, "if we expect to come...
...Dallas the House of Bishops had reaffirmed the two ancient and fundamental creeds of the church, the Apostles' Creed (whose roots lie in the 2nd century) and the 4th century Nicene Creed, as being proclamations of "a gift whose kind and nature does not in itself change from generation to generation...
...creeds were formulated to combat certain early heresies, said Miller, but "we are no longer surrounded by Arians, Appollinarians, Patripassians and Eutychians . . .* Today's challenge for more precise etymological definitions of our faith comes from materialism, secularism and Communism. Imposed creedal orthodoxy will not suffice. I love the creeds. I recite them, and I think I have overcome honestly the intellectual obstacles they raise. But when anyone tries to tell an Episcopalian that he is unequivocally - which means without variety of interpretation - committed to a particular creed. I can only remind him of the wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead...
...Nikita Khrushchev convened in Moscow an ecumenical council of the Communist hierarchs of 81 nations to deal with the threat of schism raised by efforts of the brash Peking Communist school to put itself forward as the true exemplar of Communist faith and practice. Last week the resulting creed finally was published in Moscow and in Communist papers around the world...
...million, divided into six districts, governed by bishops who are elected by jurisdictional conferences. Founded in the 18th century in reaction to the Church of England, Methodism stresses personal religious experience and love of God rather than doctrine, though Methodists believe in the Trinity, recite the Apostles' Creed, and observe the sacraments of baptism and communion. But they regard communion as only commemorative of the Last Supper...