Creeds and confessions are important, but they are subordinate to the Word and must be judged by the Word. |
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John Spong was validly baptized into a Church that professes the Creeds. |
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This liturgical diversity suggests that the principles enunciated by the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds remain doctrinally unimpeachable. |
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Besides the three Ecumenical Creeds, which date to Roman times, the Book of Concord contains seven credal documents articulating Lutheran theology in the Reformation era. |
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Churches and philosophers give us the impression that people live by systems and ideologies and creeds and things. |
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All belief systems, ideologies, creeds, and theological frameworks turn to dust. |
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Values are a shared set of beliefs or creeds, convictions and ideologies, or a set of isms. |
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The creeds make no claims on us, for as soon as they become controverted, the judges stated, they cease to have authority. |
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The successors to the first apostles were just beginning to organize their ministries and develop the church's worship, creeds, and teachings. |
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This is not true Hinduism, which has always shown its tolerance and accepted in its fold other creeds and faiths. |
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The conceptualization of the sacred is remarkably similar in otherwise very different creeds. |
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Fueled by supremacist and puritan theological creeds, their symbolic acts of power become uncompromisingly fanatic and violent. |
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Fueled by supremacist and puritan theological creeds their symbolic acts of power become uncompromisingly fanatic and violent. |
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The creeds address incorrect beliefs or heresies of the times in which they were created. |
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As a result of Lawrence many, of all orientations and political creeds, see same-sex marriage as the next step. |
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In the past we've split over such things as the punctuation of the creeds, the orders of ministry and the nature of communion. |
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The creeds of the church are affirmations of faith and not statements of belief. |
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He knew that absolute creeds, whatever their ideal, cannot be reconciled with differing outlooks. |
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Most of them accepted tradition and creeds only as they contained and were in agreement with the apostolic witness. |
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It remains a uniting force for people of diverse opinions and political creeds. |
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I don't want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. |
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This is a true reading of the Apostles' Creed, which is the basis for all later creeds. |
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During the past 50 years, our society has been immeasurably enriched by people from different cultures, creeds and religions. |
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When reason is abdicated and replaced by the bellicose creeds of opposing religions, peace is impossible. |
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There was a time when religious evangelists, of all faiths, proudly promoted their creeds on the basis that they constituted the truth. |
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His dearest wish was to bring people of different races and creeds together. |
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People, young and old, from across all communities, races and creeds have had a platform to express those views. |
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Others, citing religious creeds of one kind or another, claim it was God that unleashed the earthquake and tidal waves to punish humanity. |
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Historically, creeds have developed whenever religions migrate from their homelands. |
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He scoffed at the disparate creeds of religions, each claiming to see the truth through the colored lenses of its own dogmatism. |
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A piano was played, hymns were sung, we all duly recited the confession, creeds and responses, and the curate ascended the pulpit with surplice flowing. |
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The moral duties and doubts of adulthood are swapped out for the histrionic creeds of adolescence. |
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How non-Methodists react to his innovations no doubt depends on their attachment to the ancient creeds and to the apostolic succession which they express. |
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America has long been the incubator of many spiritual creeds going back to the Great Awakening and even earlier. |
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Malala has been honoured by the nation by the world, by people of all classes of all creeds of all colors. |
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These creeds settled basic issues such as the Trinity and deity of Christ. |
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The very religious, like Eagleton, may take offense at the brusque, selective, and unsystematic consideration of their creeds. |
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All colours and creeds are here, drawn by the slow slink of the sun. |
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On the cover of their magazine was a three inch by five inch mirror, which reflected the face of all their readers of different nationalities, races, religions, and creeds. |
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The mayor said Thailand is known for a diversity of religions and creeds. |
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Don't creeds make faith into a matter of doctrines and dogmas? |
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Socialism, too, has virtually disappeared, so that liberals and conservatives are seeking a counter-image to contrast to their own political creeds. |
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These are voices that represent all world views and political creeds. |
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The sound of their beautiful voices singing their joyous prayers, telling the story of Chek Chek and reiterating their simple creeds, followed us on our descent. |
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Encouraged by these developments, we rejoice in a greater measure of common catechesis based on Scripture and the ecumenical creeds that we share. |
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The king welcomed the learned and practised toleration towards the several creeds, races and languages of his realm. |
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It was against these creeds that teachings were judged in order to determine orthodoxy and to establish teachings as heretical. |
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Both creeds enjoyed a language rich in the apocalyptic imagery of the millenarianist transformation of society. |
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These statements of faith became the framework for ecumenical creeds such as the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. |
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Articles VI and VII deal with scripture, while Article VIII discusses the essential creeds. |
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The study of heresy requires an understanding of the development of orthodoxy and the role of creeds in the definition of orthodox beliefs. |
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There was more attention to historic creeds such as the Augsburg, the Heidelberg, and the Westminster confessions. |
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It was a pleasure to see Torontonians of all shapes, sizes, creeds, colour and heritage dancing together on the Danforth and simply enjoying the food and the weather. |
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This is the egalitarian revelation and baptism that Muir found in the Sierra, and it confirmed his Campbellite tendency to reject creeds and dogmatic human traditions. |
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It rejoices in the inheritance of the apostolic faith and loyally accepts the fundamental principles of the historic creeds and of the Protestant Reformation. |
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Many evangelical Protestants reject creeds as definitive statements of faith, even while agreeing with some or all of the substance of the creeds. |
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Termed the Erlangen School of theology, they developed a new version of the Incarnation, which they felt emphasized the humanity of Jesus better than the ecumenical creeds. |
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Councils and creeds recognized as authoritative are interpreted only as defining and more fully explicating the orthodox faith handed to the apostles, without adding to it. |
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They also do not enforce belief in creeds or dogmatic formulas. |
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Similarly, why didn't they find a means of incorporating transubstantiation into the creeds, which are supposed to be the statement of our beliefs? |
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