Society of Friends, also called Friends Church, byname Quakers, Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to living in accordance with the "Inward Light," or direct inward apprehension of God, without creeds, clergy, or other ecclesiastical forms.
The other is mystical and apprehends God without ideation, without creeds, without words in a row.
And Muhly has his own entry in this category: "Bright Mass with Canons" (2005), a jubilant reinvention of the "Missa Brevis" form — essentially, a Mass without a Creed — written for New York's magnificent St. Thomas Choir.
The mystical Jesus is for readers who wish we had the parables without the creeds, the philosophical Jesus for readers who wish Christianity had developed like the Ethical Culture movement.
A new Pew Research study projecting the growth of world religions found that in 2010 about 405 million people (roughly 6percentt of the world's population) identified with folk or traditional religions without formal creeds, sacred texts and institutional structures.
Rome did not press its claims to Greek dioceses in Italy and Greece under the jurisdiction of Constantinople, and the Roman legates consented to the Byzantine demand to condemn Western additions to the Nicene Creed, without explicit mention of the contentious use of the word filioque (Latin: "and the Son"), whereby the Holy Spirit was said by some to proceed from the Father "and the Son".
And then, indicating a willingness from a band whose albums include "Use Your Fingers" and "Hefty Fine" to insult people without regard to creed or nationality, Mr. Pop compared America to the sexual shortcomings of former girlfriends and set into playing the next song.
A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed.
Unitarian Universalism is a progressive religious denomination without a central creed, focusing instead on a shared search for spiritual growth.
