In 1975, in his last RCA album Just Wanna Rock ' n ' Roll José released his well known jazz-funk-latin instrumental composition " Affirmation ," which was released again one year later by jazz guitarist George Benson in his hit album " Breezin '.

The peer would take the Oath of Allegiance or the Solemn Affirmation, and would sign the Test Roll, at the top of which the same Oath is written.

One of his early novels, The Affirmation, concerns a traumatized man who apparently flips into a delusional world in which he experiences a lengthy voyage to an archipelago of exotic islands.

The other important aspect of this day in the introduction of The Affirmation, which is read line by line and discussed throughout the different sessions of the day.

( Article VI of the U. S. Constitution states that "… all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land …" and that "… all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution …", while Article III states that the judicial power of the US Supreme Court extends to " all … Treaties made ".

Other legislative successes included the Affirmation Acts, which allowed Quakers to avoid oath-taking ; however, attempts to put forward a " Quakers Tithes Bill " were fruitless.

It has worked out the World Methodist Social Affirmation which was approved in 1986 and is part of the literature of several Methodist denominations.

" The Essentials " is a fuller version of the " Five Fundamentals " that many PCUSA ministers had rejected in the " Auburn Affirmation " of 1923.

# " What's Past is Past ; Affirmation of Love "-2: 51

Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons is an international organization for gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and intersex people who identify as members or ex-members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

LDS Reconciliation, a group of Gay and Lesbian Mormons that was originally started in conjunction with Family Fellowship, serves a similar purpose but is focused on gay and lesbian Mormons in the Utah and Idaho areas, rather than worldwide as is Affirmation.

Affirmation is a declaration that something is true.

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada is one of the churches that trace their origins to the Congress of St. Louis, the assembly that inaugurated the Continuing Anglican Movement and produced the Affirmation of St. Louis.

* Introductory note by Antonio Cassese for General Assembly resolution 95 ( I ) of 11 December 1946 ( Affirmation of the Principles of International Law recognized by the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal ) on the website of the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

In recent years, revised Funeral Rites have appeared, along with liturgies for Christian Initiation ( e. g. Baptism and Affirmation ) and Marriage.

The Affirmation expressed a determination " to continue in the Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and Evangelical Witness of the traditional Anglican Church, doing all things necessary for the continuance of the same.

The principles of the Affirmation of St. Louis and, to a lesser extent, the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, provide some basis for unity in the movement, but the jurisdictions are numerous, usually quite small in membership and often splinter and recombine.

The union strives to increase employment opportunities for women, minorities, seniors, people with disabilities, and to uphold the Non-Discrimination / Affirmation Action Plan for all AFTRA members.

The Constitution provides the Oath of Affirmation for the Office of Vice President as under :-

His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island, Inverted World, The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Prestige and The Separation.

It campaigned for the return of capital punishment, and was supported by the Christian Affirmation Campaign, a fundamentalist movement opposed to what it saw as the World Council of Churches ' support for Communist regimes in Africa.

This was followed in 2007 by Bloom: A Woman's Journal for Inspired Living, an accompaniment to a set of Affirmation Cards released previously.

In 1985, some members of Affirmation formed a Latter Day Saint church for gays and lesbians known as the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ.

In addition, GALA ( Gay and Lesbian Acceptance ), the support group for GLBT members of the Independence, Missouri-based Community of Christ ( formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ), was a break off from the Affirmation Chapter in Kansas City, Missouri in the mid-1980s.

Among Allison's books are The Rise of Moralism: The Proclamation of the Gospel from Hooker to Baxter ( New York: The Seabury Press, 1966 ); The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy ( Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1994 ); " Guilt, Anger, and God: The Patterns of Our Discontents " ( New York: The Seabury Press, 1972 ); " Fear, Love, and Worship " ( published prior to 1972 ).

The constitution act stipulates that: " Before assuming office, a person appointed to be Governor shall take the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance and the Oath or Affirmation of Office in the presence of the Chief Justice or another Judge of the Supreme Court.

This move toward aggressively anti-modernist fundamentalism caused a backlash in the form of the Auburn Affirmation — a document embracing modernism and " liberty of thought and teaching.

The work of Theophrastus On Affirmation and Denial seems to have corresponded to that of Aristotle's On Judgment.

* " Absolute Affirmation " ( September 2004, City Slang )-UK No. 61

* Ryan, Nancy E. ( December 5, 2002 ) " Affirmation in Response to Motion to Vacate Judgement of Conviction "

This was also known as the " Henrician Affirmation " and was seen as an important opposition to the early stages of the Protestant Reformation, especially the ideas of Martin Luther.

Paul Mahern of the Zero Boys led the effort, and founded Affirmation Records, releasing several compilations and recordings from Articles of Faith ( from Chicago ) and local band Killing Children before going out of business.

Affirmation of women in ministry was one of the founding principles of the Fellowship.

During the following year, 1977, several thousand dissenting clergy and laypersons responded to those actions by meeting in St. Louis, Missouri under the auspices of the Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen and adopted a theological statement, the Affirmation of St. Louis.

The Reading Clerk reads the Letters Patent presented to him by the Garter Principal King of Arms, and administers the Oath of Allegiance or Solemn Affirmation to the new peer.

The Member and supporters then process to the Speaker's table, where the new Member takes the Oath of Allegiance or Solemn Affirmation.

* The saying was used by Robert F. Kennedy in his Day of Affirmation Address in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1966.

Fifteen years ago, troubled by the rising tide of materialism in the post-war world, a businessman and a minister asked themselves if there might not be a place for a small magazine in which men and women, regardless of creed or color, could set forth boldly their religious convictions and bear witness to the power of faith to solve the endless problems of living.

It is the first creed in which the equality of the three persons of the Trinity is explicitly stated, and differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan and Apostles ' Creeds in the inclusion of anathemas, or condemnations of those who disagree with the Creed ( like the original Nicene Creed ).

The 1940 discovery of a lost work by Vincent of Lérins, which bears a striking similarity to much of the language of the Athanasian Creed, have led many to conclude that the creed originated either with Vincent or with his students.

These include the Athanasian creed, which is today generally seen as being of 5th-century Galician origin.

The United Methodist Hymnal also contains ( at # 882 ) what it terms the " Ecumenical Version " of this creed — a version which is identical to that found in the Episcopal Church's current Book of Common Prayer.

because it does not explicitly make use of religious titles for Jesus, such as " Christ " and Domin-(" Lord "), which are used in the BC / AD notation, nor does it give implicit expression to the Christian creed that Jesus was the Christ.

Some people speak of cultural coercion when the fear of falling out with the group may force people into wearing a certain style of dress, publicly reciting a creed or a pledge of allegiance which they find ethically reprehensible or starting to smoke when they would have preferred not to etc.

Although some say Judaism is noncreedal in nature, others say it recognizes a single creed, the Shema Yisrael, which begins: " Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.

The word derives from the Latin credo, which means " I believe " ( because the Latin translation of the Apostles ' Creed and the Nicene Creed both begin with this word ) so a creed may also be called a credo.

A creed is sometimes referred to as a symbol signifying a " token " by which persons of like beliefs might recognize each other.

1 Corinthians 15, 3-7 includes an early creed about Jesus ' death and resurrection which was probably received by Paul.

It is the first creed in which the equality of the three persons of the Trinity is explicitly stated, and differs from the Nicene and Apostles ' Creeds in the inclusion of anathemas, or condemnations of those who disagree with the Creed.

Pope Paul VI spoke of it as " a profession of faith, ... a creed which, without being strictly speaking a dogmatic definition, repeats in substance, with some developments called for by the spiritual condition of our time, the creed of Nicea, the creed of the immortal tradition of the holy Church of God "

Rabbi Milton Steinberg wrote that " By its nature Judaism is averse to formal creeds which of necessity limit and restrain thought " and asserted in his book Basic Judaism ( 1947 ) that " Judaism has never arrived at a creed.

Jordanes ' conversion may have been a conversion to the trinitarian Nicene creed, which may be expressed in anti-Arianism in certain passages in Getica.

* Liberal religion, a religious tradition which embraces the theological diversity of a congregation rather than a single creed, authority, or writing

" In Soviet Russia the Bolsheviks originally embraced " an ideological creed which professed that all religion would atrophy " and " resolved to eradicate Christianity as such.

" In saying this, the Pope affirmed that Jews were full members of the human community – which is Goldhagen's own criterion for establishing ' dissent from the anti-Semitic creed.

Belief in the Resurrection of the Dead, and Jesus Christ's role as judge, is codified in the Apostles ' Creed, which is the fundamental creed of Christian baptismal faith.

Substance theorists then say that bundle theory and metaphysical realism can only coexist by introducing an identity of indiscernibles creed, which substance theorists suggest is incoherent.

One could take Catholic to mean the ' culture ' in which one was born, rather than to mean a creed making objective and rigorous demands.

In Article 5 states: Immediate steps shall be taken in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories, or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom, moreover on 15 December 1960 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 ( XV ) under titled Principles which should guide members in determining whether or nor an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73e of the United Nations Charter in Article 3 provided that nadequacy of political, economic, social or educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for delaying independence.