`` There is not now, nor has there ever been in Emory University's charter or by-laws any requirement that students be admitted or rejected on the basis of race, color or creed.

There is not a formal creed within Judaism, though one has become especially authoritative.

Voss, and it has since been widely accepted by modern scholars that the creed was not authored by Athanasius.

The antiquity of the creed has been located by most biblical scholars to no more than five years after Jesus ' death, probably originating from the Jerusalem apostolic community.

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.

That the Earth is quite as old as he supposes, has long been my creed ..."

It has played so dominant a role … all across the continent … these qualities have persisted even though the original creed is lost.

" Gandhi's private secretary also had acknowledged that " The question of the consistency between his creed of ' Ahimsa ' ( non-violence ) and his recruiting campaign was raised not only then but has been discussed ever since.

The Coptic Church has the tradition that the original creed was authored by Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria.

On the basis of evidence both internal and external to the text, it has been argued that this creed originated not as an editing by the First Council of Constantinople of the original Nicene Creed, but as an independent creed ( probably an older baptismal creed ) modified to make it more like the Nicene Creed of 325 and attributed to the Council of 381 only later.

The third Ecumenical Council ( Council of Ephesus of 431 ) reaffirmed the original 325 version of the Nicene Creed and declared that " it is unlawful for any man to bring forward, or to write, or to compose a different ( – more accurately translated as used by the Council to mean “ different ,” “ contradictory ,” and not “ another ”) Faith as a rival to that established by the holy Fathers assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa " ( i. e. the 325 creed ) This statement has been interpreted as a prohibition against changing this creed or composing others, but not all accept this interpretation.

Geza Vermes writes that the creed is " a tradition he has inherited from his seniors in the faith concerning the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus ".

So far as we know, there is no religious establishment or organized body that has in its creed or confession of faith any article denying or affirming such a theory.

of every man's creed who has any creed at all – I believe in God " ( emphasis Paine's ).

The UUA does not have a central creed in which members are required to believe, but they have found it useful to articulate their common values in what has become known as the Principles and Purposes.

The lack of formal creed has been a cause for criticism among some who argue that Unitarian Universalism is thus without religious content.

Church seal on a set of doors to the Independence TempleThe Community of Christ states that it recognizes that " perception of truth is always qualified by human nature and experience " and it therefore has not adopted an official religious creed.

The Pakistan Peoples Party has as its creed, " Islam is our faith ; democracy is our politics ; socialism is our economy ; all power to the people.

Because the membership of the FoR included many members of the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), who reject any form of written creed, it has always been stressed that the Basis is a statement of general agreement rather than a fixed form of words.

Prabhakar has developed a Dalit creed, which reads in part:

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.

These never formed a fixed, standard creed but creed-like slogans and tags are continually found.

* the 2nd directed the recitation of the creed of Constantinople at Holy Communion, with the addition of the Filioque clause: Credo in Spiritum Sanctum qui ex patre filioque procedit (" I believe in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and Son ") which was never accepted in the Christian East and led to drawn-out controversy ;

When Jane tells him, “ The men of my creed have been driven in hate, up until they've become cruel, but we women pray for the time when their hearts will soften ,” he responds, “ That time will never come .” The disdain for Mormonism is social, instead of religious, in nature.

After the election, he was jailed under the emergency regulations by JR Jayawardena for allegedly being a " Naxalite " ( a political creed hitherto and henceforth unknown in Sri Lanka ), but he was never charged.

The theme of the chorale is the Lutheran creed of salvation from sin by God's grace alone, summarized in the first stanza: " Deeds can never help, ... faith beholds Jesus Christ, ...

In January 1532, he published an evangelical creed, and gained the backing of the city authorities.

The Doctor observes that the Daleks have gained human traits and emotion by this process and have, because of their creed and resulting self-hate, become deadlier than ever.

Although much of the church hierarchy in the East had opposed the Nicene creed in the decades leading up to Theodosius ' accession, he managed to achieve unity on the basis of the 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.

They attributed much of their success to decisions early on to accept all denominations and to refuse no one regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, or criminal record.

Harnack's view was that the creed contains both too much and too little to be a satisfactory test for candidates for ordination ; he preferred a briefer declaration of faith which could be rigorously applied to all ( cf.

The Bakunin scholar Arthur Lehning has written of Buonarroti: “ He too built up on an international scale, though over a much longer period, an elaborate underground network, on a freemason pattern, sometimes using Masonic institutions, to work for his egalitarian creed of 1796, for a social revolution and for the republicanisation of Europe.

The first issue of Spearhead stated that the new movement would adhere " without fear and without compromise to every tenet of the national socialist creed " albeit " in a manner more in touch with British affairs and much more in touch with British interests and aims ".

I have been forced by mere space to confine myself to what I have got from this creed ; I do not touch the matter much disputed among modern Christians, of where we ourselves got it.

Andy Ruddock has written that Gauntlett's " ironic polemic " includes " much to value ", and acknowledges that the argument " is more strategy than creed ", but argues that audiences still exist, and experience mass media specifically as audience, and so it would be premature to dispose of the notion of ' audience ' altogether.

His role there was the Christian mission to industrial workers, a third of whom were Indians and Africans from the British Empire, and during his time there he learned much from the Methodists, whose connection between personal creed and social engagement he saw as an example to the Church of England.

The creeds of Christianity have been drawn up at times of conflict about doctrine: acceptance or rejection of a creed served to distinguish believers and deniers of a particular doctrine or set of doctrines.

Formal acceptance of a creed?

The Councils of Toledo debated creed and liturgy in orthodox Catholicism, and the Council of Lerida in 546 constrained the clergy and extended the power of law over them under the blessings of Rome.

The Nicene Creed ( Latin: ) is the creed or profession of faith ( Greek: ) that is most widely used in Christian liturgy.

* Icon / Symbol of the Faith is the usual designation for the revised version of Constantinople 381 in the Orthodox churches, where this is the only creed used in the liturgy.

Methodius vindicated his orthodoxy at Rome, the more easily as the creed was still recited there without the Filioque, and promised to obey in regard to the liturgy.

Lastly, Leontius intimates that Theodore wrote a portion of a liturgy ; " not content with drafting a new creed, he sought to impose upon the church a new Anaphora ".

It has the same creed, Scripture, liturgy and organisation as the other culture communities world wide.

Taylor set up a Christian Evidence Society and lectured in London pubs dressed in elaborate vestments, attacking the Anglican liturgy and the barbarities of the Establishment for what he called its " Pagan creed ".