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  • only the Ten Commandments and the Apostles’ Creed. He wrote: "To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter ...
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  • # "The Apostles' Creed, as the Baptismal Symbol; and the Nicene Creed, as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith." ...
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  • on the part of many Skoptsy to consider their creed fulfilled by chaste, solitary living. ==Popular Culture== * A sect of castrates living in ...
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  • Western Emperor Gratian ascribed to the Nicene creed, the younger Valentinian II, who became his colleague in the empire, adhered to the Arian creed ...
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  • or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin. The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants ...
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  • to the service of humanity, regardless of creed, color or nationality. Centers run by the Mission have been prominent in interfaith relations ...
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  • He worked among people of every creed and race, and his help and advice were freely available to all." The presentation speech continues ...
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  • to preach the then circumscribed evangelical creed and at the same time, without the slightest insincerity, to devote himself actively to philosophical ...
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  • animosity and prejudice based on color, creed, race, or nationality recognize that this project had many negative aspects. On the other hand ...
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  • in 1891, not only formulated the new creed of Unitarianism, but solidified his role as the leader of the new movement. Other influential sermons ...
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  • to prove the dogmas defined in the Apostolic Creed. This bold attempt was entirely factitious and verbal, and only his employment of various terms ...
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  • to its proponents a greater unity of purpose and creed than they actually shared, overlooking the complex disagreements among the logical positivists ...
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  • and declared that he held to the Nicene Creed, stipulating that Christ is both true God and true man, to which nothing could be added. He claimed ...
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  • party fought. However, the language of the Nicean Creed, in dealing with Arianism, also ruled out Adoptionism by affirming that Jesus is "begotten ...
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  • addition of the filioque (and the Son) clause to the creed, which later became a major issue between the Eastern and Western churches, with the former ...
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  • The Second Council of Ephesus was a church synod in 449 C.E. It was convoked by Emperor Theodosius II as an ecumenical council to deal with unresolved ...
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  • bishops held at Constantinople issued a compromise creed as a substitute for the formulas of both the Nicene and Arian parties. Although affirming the ...
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  • The college, open to all people of any caste or creed, hired faculty members without using a denominational test. The charter has also been confirmed ...
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  • of Theodore of Mopsuestia on the Nicene Creed. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0900653056. * Theodore, and Robert C. Hill. Commentary ...
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  • deposed Dioscorus and promulgated the Chalcedonian Creed, in which the concept of Christ's "two natures" became the official doctrine ...
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  • * Richard, Yann. 1995. Shiʻite Islam: polity, ideology, and creed. Studies in social discontinuity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. ISBN 9781557864697 ...
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  • The passages containing criticisms on the Christian creed, in Book III. chaps. xxv., xxvi., have been expunged by the censor from later editons ...
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  • A state religion (also called an official religion, established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the ...
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  • to help his fellowmen, without regard to race or creed; he has striven to build a world in which violence and arms are no longer necessary in the struggle ...
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  • of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex." This showed that Ben-Gurion was not an ethnocentric but that he had a big mind ...
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  • become a theologian in order to know what the creed was all about. From 1904-1909 he was exposed to the prevailing liberal theological education of ...
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  • The Four Marks of the Church first expressed in the Nicene Creed ... , holding the [[Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed|Niceno–Constantinopolitan ...
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  • seek to obtain upon the battlefield. With such a creed can the pacifists of today be accused of selfishness when they urge upon the United States ...
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  • rooted Indian tradition of spirituality over creed and the renaissance Indian notion of religious tolerance and openness. In the fifteenth and sixteenth ...
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  • It is said that he followed the well-established creed of his predecessor Parshva. However, Mahavira did rearticulate the philosophical tenets of Jainism ...
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  • a public statement denying that the Apostles' Creed was composed in succession by each of the twelve Apostles. Alfonso eventually succeeded in having ...
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  • gnostic ideas. For example, the Apostles' Creed specifies that God the Father is the "creator of heaven and earth," thus refuting the ...
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  • the particularities of religion or creed. An enthusiastic supporter of internationalism, he founded the Peace University to promote dialogue and ...
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  • of equal rights for everyone, regardless of race or creed. He believed in “the essential goodness of all people, and that no problem in human relations ...
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  • of the Shaysites that "their creed is that the property of the United States" having been freed from British exactions "by the ...
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  • |documents=Nicene Creed confirmed, condemnations of heresies, declaration of "Theotokos" }} Meanwhile, on July 10, the papal envoys ...
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  • Generally, Quakerism has no creed. George Fox dismissed theologians ... Most Friends believe a formal creed would be an obstacle - both to ...
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  • * Richard, Yann. 1995. Shiʻite Islam: polity, ideology, and creed. Studies in social discontinuity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. ISBN 9781557864697 ...
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  • My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for ...
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  • created his own church, which would develop its own creed and rites. The Catholic Apostolic Church grew out of this congregation in Newman Street and ...
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  • "Hobbism" became a fashionable creed which it was the duty of ... could be heresy except opposing the Nicene Creed, which, he maintained, Leviathan ...
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  • religion of that period, if not the official creed of Jerusalem, viewed God as containing both masculine and feminine aspects. Anthropologist Raphael ...
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  • large part of the population favored their creed; but, paralyzed again by ... The Utraquist creed, frequently varying in its details, continued ...
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  • of Peter, the dignity of the city, and the Nicene Creed. The decree ordered that any opposition to his rulings, which were to have the force of law, should ...
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  • whose belief in "deed, and not creed" was the motivating factor behind all of her great achievements. She spoke on "What is Religion ...
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  • more by political events than by diversities of creed, although the famous filioque clause inserted into the Nicene Creed by the popes played no small ...
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  • The Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed both refer to Jesus as born to "the Virgin Mary." This alludes to the belief that Mary conceived ...
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  • the Prophet himself. Ahmad bin Hanbali's creed places the companions in “order of excellence,” starting with Abu Bakr. == Origins of ...
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  • , and as a quandary for the artist (such as Martin Creed's difficulty with deciding what artworks to make). ==See also== * Certainty ...
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  • short strand, reciting the Apostle's Creed at the crucifix, an Our Father ... Crucifix and then the "Apostles' Creed"; ...
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