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.

Affirmation of this creed, which describes the Trinity, is generally taken as a fundamental test of orthodoxy for most Christian denominations.

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.

After examining the primary documents he concludes: " In sum, the only formal and well-attested Council of Sirmium during the reign of Constantius is the council of 351 which condemned Athanasius, Marcellus, and Photinus and promulgated the creed which was subsequently presented to the Councils of Arles and Milan.

William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, is noted to have said in a letter to a friend, " I am interested in the spread of Christian civilization, but to go into a dogmatic discussion of creed I will not do whether I am defeated or not.

The new organization, commonly known as the American Commons Club, was an American letter fraternity for men without restrictions as to race, creed, or color.

" ( 23 June 1850, Joseph Trutch Papers, UBCL, folder A1. b. ) And in a letter to the Secretary of State, " I have not yet met with a single Indian whom I consider to have attained even the most glimmering perception of the Christian creed.

Within the Latter Day Saint movement, the Articles of Faith are a creed composed by Joseph Smith, Jr. as part of an 1842 letter sent to " Long " John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat, and first published in the Latter Day Saint newspaper Times and Seasons.

However, the best modern analysis of the sources of the creed ( by A. de Halleux, in Revue Theologique de Louvain 7, 1976 ) and a reading of the acts, or proceedings, of the council ( recently translated into English ) show that the bishops considered Cyril the great authority and that even the language of ' two natures ' derives from him.

It was a perfect storm of culture and creed, and it set the stage for an entire movement to come up behind him — and eventually pass him by.

Four letters remain of Epiphanius to Hormisdas, telling him of his election, sending him his creed, and declaring that he condemned all those whose name the pope had forbidden to be recited in the diptychs.

Here Paul refers to others before him who preached the creed.

To him chiefly is due the abandonment of the principle of interpretation according to the analogy of faith, which practically subordinated the Bible to the creed.

He relates that before his episcopal consecration Gregory retired from Neocaesarea into a solitude, and was favoured by an apparition of the Blessed Virgin and John the Apostle, and that the latter dictated to him a creed or formula of Christian faith, of which the autograph existed at Neocaesarea when the biography was being written.

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.

Mohan Lal was engaged by Burnes primarily to assist him in his Persian correspondence and also because Burnes believed that his youth and creed would free him from all danger of his entering into intrigues with the people among whom he was going to travel.

Gakaara wa Wanjaũ published the Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi creed, for which the colonial government put him in detention till 1960.

In 1934 the New York Herald Tribune ran a profile of " Essad Bey " which described him as an irreverent Muslim who " carries no prayer rug ; he fails to salute Mecca when he prays ... eats pigs and drinks wine ; yet when he came to be married in Berlin he refused to abjure his creed.

But he chose his masters well, Johnson and Burke ; the one gave him his religious, the other his political creed.

creed or color people approached Mar Athanasius with their grievances, and received help from him.

# The creed originally was most likely written in Latin, while Athanasius composed in Greek.

The Chalcedonian creed was written amid controversy between the western and eastern churches over the meaning of the Incarnation ( see Christology ), the ecclesiastical influence of the emperor, and the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome.

" The Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the People of the United States ", written by Chase and Giddings, and published in the New York Times on January 24, 1854, may be regarded as the earliest draft of the Republican party creed.

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.

It was not something that was written up as a manifesto, but a commonly, silently, agreed upon creed that simply came to be.

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.

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.

However, imperfect and distorted as the picture may be, such was doubtless in substance the creed of Basilidians not half a century after Basilides had written.

The Remarks on the Confession was written by Thompson, and argued that since creeds served to divide the church, even if a perfect creed could be found, it should be rejected as the standard for Christian fellowship.

'" This creed, written by Shirley Kreasan Strout, was adopted at the 1928 ZTA Convention.

The creed was written in the winter of 2009 by a small group of distinguished faculty and student government officers.

* A soldier's creed, an essay written by van Stockum and published ( under the byline " a bomber pilot ", due to wartime security restrictions ) in December 1944.

The Articles of Faith are similar to, and may have been partially derived from, an earlier creed written by Oliver Cowdery ( Messenger and Advocate 1 ( 1 ), October 1834, p. 2 ):