Scripture was vetted and canonized, and a creed adopted and reaffirmed against those who would challenge, alter, or undermine it. |
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Social liberalism is an optimistic creed, which flourishes best in good times. |
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The Lollard name is of unknown origin and meaning, but signified a return to a simpler creed. |
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A creed is meant to summarize the explicit teachings or articles of faith, to imbed and thus protect and transmit the beliefs. |
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But surely if any religious creed is to have validity it has to assert its authority over science? |
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Only a prince could be captain and stand apart from the competing interests of sectionalism, race, caste, creed and customs. |
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The liberal creed of cosmopolitanism, free trade, and peace promised to define the shape of things to come. |
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In the absence of a creed, he cannot qualify as a heretic, but he can be found guilty of not minding his manners about the church's values. |
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The cause of science advocacy is a big-tent issue, one which citizens of any creed or religion can endorse. |
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Contemporary Unitarian Universalism has no creed and is an alternative to creed-based religions. |
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Liberalism had come to seem not a universalist creed, something for all Americans to embrace, but a particularist creed. |
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The creed of the leftist religion is that any difference between people is a result of evil social forces. |
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Our difference and argument with others is on the basis of their actions, deeds and practice and never on the basis of race, creed or religion. |
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Our taxation system should not be based on race, ethnicity, religious belief, or creed. |
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People should be chosen for public award or recognition on their merits, not according to their race, colour, creed or religion. |
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This is as dutiful and strong-willed a creed as any Victorian moralist could hope for. |
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Constitutional or not, the ideals are part of the American ethos and creed. |
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It is the appeasers' doctrine, the creed that inhibits the comprehensive response to a heinous deed. |
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Meritocracy really has fallen by the wayside, as a fashionable political creed. |
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Add in the anti-capitalists' flair for dramatic protest, and you have a very attractive political creed. |
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Yet wildlife slaughter has never been the prerogative of a single race or a particular political creed. |
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No ideology, creed or policy yet devised has ever stopped people trying to do the best for their children at a purely individual level. |
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What have been the features of this creed that has dominated political life? |
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Irish Toryism was the dominant political creed down to 1859, at least in terms of Westminster seats. |
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This chosen nation myth has been the oldest and most continuous creed in American civil religion. |
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Surely there must be more subtle and effective ways to win people over to your political creed. |
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Their whole creed in politics, is that it is okay as long as you don't get caught. |
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And an argument without evidence is a sorry one indeed, more akin to a creed or dogma than scientific reasoning. |
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While the forms it takes vary, it cuts across boundaries of creed, generation and race. |
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The discrimination against women in the name of caste and creed and the resultant ostracising too would be fought vigorously. |
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We should all bear this in mind, for territorial ambition often goes hand in hand with the censor's creed. |
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It is, in addition, a statement of the code of values of the Slavophile creed. |
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Do we really want the carpers and complainers, of whatever creed, to get programmes banned? |
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It may well be the case that free open competition is best for us all in the long term irrespective of creed or colour. |
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I am sure he does not want a textbook answer taken from a creed or a catechism. |
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Even if you belong to the same race, class or creed, you can be an outcaste. |
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The media gives us gender roles and social norms to mimic and worship as creed. |
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Jung issued a circular letter to all members firmly stating the principle that The International Society is neutral as to politics and creed. |
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In political associations, the object of each man, is to identify his creed with that of his neighbor. |
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An imbecile habit has risen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. |
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Lately, it has become harder to imagine a world where people, regardless of colour, creed or race are shown the same respect. |
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The American creed is expressed with inspired concision in the words of the Declaration of Independence. |
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The result is warm, humane and a compelling counter to the callous creed of Social Darwinists. |
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For this, we will have to adopt the concept of brotherhood and fraternity and work together, regardless of caste and creed. |
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The wheat is generally creed for the frumenty to be ready for the following morning. |
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Do I mean everybody who professes an orthodox creed, and bows his head at the belief? |
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Why Pagels happily swallows this camel while straining out the gnats of the creed is a mystery. |
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The excesses of the Grand Inquisitor became the creed of administration by the temporal regime. |
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The death of any innocent person should grieve us all regardless of nationality, political affiliation, wealth, creed, race, colour or gender. |
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And when mourners of every age, race, and creed praised him as a great man, I wondered what His Eminence had done to merit those words. |
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Or, as another scholar has said, the creed is an epitome and summary that guides and directs a proper reading of Scripture. |
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After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees. |
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Bushido, the code of the samurai warrior, was the creed of the Japanese soldiers. |
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Yet this creed is wasted on Shanghai youth whose nostalgia keeps them glued to the city. |
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Sousa's creed as a conductor was to entertain his audience while educating them. |
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The mood of the broad masses is quite at odds with the creed of avarice and social reaction that animates the incoming government. |
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To be condemned for the colour or creed you were born with, really defies reason or sanity. |
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Equal treatment without regard to race remains the enduring promise of the American creed. |
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It was a unifying creed for diversity of belief and faith, for the American dream of achieving individual liberty. |
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Only some conservative Swiss Mennonites and Amish still hold on to the sixteenth-century forms of their creed. |
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Second, Anderson despised and attacked the creed of king and country, the cult of war memorials, national anthems, patriotism. |
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As a Hindu I am proud to subscribe to a creed that is free of the restrictive dogmas of holy writ that refuses to be shackled to the limitations of a single holy book. |
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The reform movement quickly attracted a huge following and, with the zeal of converts, former Roman followers adopted the new creed evangelically. |
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It's to do with race and religion and color and creed and sexuality. |
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It has become the creed of virtually every cultivated person. |
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The council concluded with the emperor Constantine insisting that the bishops come to an agreement over the wording of the creed. |
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Under every creed, monachal austerity and seclusion had been attempted. |
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And those commercials, bleeping with the sounds of electronica and oozing indie creed, are selling establishment products to the alternative nation. |
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And the black hejab was imposed on all non-Saudi women, regardless of their religion or creed. |
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With every race and creed of the the world paddling on a lake in Queens, I was eager to see how a team can win or lose. |
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Everyone without exception, regardless of creed, colour, race or class! |
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I know that a lot of Neo-Pagans abide by some kind of creed or rede. |
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Sensible advice turns into creed, good habits into unbreakable laws. |
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In public debate the loud dissenters are steeped in the liberal creed. |
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It is imperative for any development-oriented publication to cover thoughts from all sections cutting across the boundaries of religion, caste or creed. |
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That the doctrine of the filioque and its uncanonical insertion in the Latin creed present serious obstacles to the reconciliation of churches has long been clear. |
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Although anathemas followed against any who disagreed with the faith so formulated, there was no prohibition against altering the creed at a future council. |
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If it is to allow diverse citizens to hammer out a common way of life, this state cannot rest upon traditional bases of loyalty such as kinship or creed. |
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His creed, and his actions, are unthinkable, but he is also our invention. |
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The burden that is laid upon a humanist or an atheist or someone who is not bound by any ideology or creed is that you believe in nothing but you believe in anything. |
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As the Marxist creed dissolved, the other two religions have embarked on a process of mass conversion sending missionaries out to the four corners of the globe. |
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Slavish to this creed, planners brought us three soulless retail parks boasting multi-national chains selling artless tat on the outskirts of town. |
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It binds us together, irrespective of creed or colour, race or religion. |
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To be sure, most Asians, whatever their creed, eagerly embrace modernity. |
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There is a growing desire for those issues to be dealt with once and for all and to remove discrimination against people on the grounds of their creed. |
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Spiritualism, pan-animism, metempsychosis and reincarnation were at the radical end of a spectrum, but wide consensus existed for accepting evolution as a creed of progress. |
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We deeply feel the heart-touching good wishes of the people across the world of all caste, color, and creed. |
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Each of the doctrines found in this creed can be traced to statements current in the apostolic period. |
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Instead, the Deist relies solely on personal reason to guide his creed, which was eminently agreeable to many thinkers of the time. |
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There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed. |
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But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed? |
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Sikh teaching emphasizes the principle of equality of all humans and rejects discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, and gender. |
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Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed. |
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This fracture was caused more by political events than by slight divergences of creed. |
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But what creed can he set against the mullah, the Beltway chickenhawk, the cyberpornographer, and the therapeutic statist? |
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The AESC has always promoted nondiscrimination based upon gender, race or creed. |
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At first, Mrs Thatcher did not understand how Scots could be so revulsed by her political creed. |
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In newspapers, we used to talk about galley proofs, randoms, the stone, the creed and formes. |
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It is quite apparent why a matrician missed this generalization, because his creed is to build from low-order matrices high-order arrays. |
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In August 1560 the Parliament of Scotland adopted the Scots Confession as the creed of the Scottish Kingdom. |
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The degree and nature of state backing for denomination or creed designated as a state religion can vary. |
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Although influenced by the modern symbolism and surrealism movement he refused to follow its creed. |
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They are usually associated with a particular Coptic or Sufi saint, but are often celebrated by Egyptians irrespective of creed or religion. |
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Constantius used his power to exile bishops adhering to the Nicene creed, especially St Athanasius of Alexandria, who fled to Rome. |
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As debates raged in an attempt to come up with a new formula, three camps evolved among the opponents of the Nicene creed. |
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As the University of London was the first in England to admit all, regardless of race, creed or political belief, it was largely consistent with Bentham's vision. |
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Although the western Emperor Gratian supported orthodoxy, the younger Valentinian II, who became his colleague in the Empire, adhered to the Arian creed. |
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Constantine's son Constantius II, who had become Emperor of the eastern part of the Empire, actually encouraged the Arians and set out to reverse the Nicene creed. |
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I don't much care whether that creed is called socialism, bolshevism, Portilloism or Harvey's Law, I know what I stand for and am happy to defend it. |
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Still less should we assume that the non-elite members of Patrophilus's church understood the distinctions between a homoousion and homoiousion creed. |
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With what astoundment would ye, if ye were alive with your merely human perfections, listen to the creed of our, so called, rational religionists! |
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