Individual members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship believe in their own deeply held \u201ccredo.\u201d \u00a0They aren\u2019t expected to adopt a common \u201ccreed.\u201d<\/p>\n
A credo is a personal philosophy that completes sentence stems like: \u201cI believe\u2026\u201d\u00a0 or \u201cI value\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
In contrast, a creed is an official doctrine, created long ago by professional theologians, that is taught to and is binding upon all members of a religious organization.<\/p>\n
A credo is created by amateur, contemporary theologians\u2014in other words, each one of us–out of the raw stuff of our own lived and reflected upon experience.<\/p>\n
Creeds are fixed, cast in ecclesiastical concrete.\u00a0 Credos are organic and grow as we grow.<\/p>\n
Too often orthodox creeds say \u201cno\u201d to new truths.\u00a0 They have frozen their theology at a once-upon-a-time point and place.\u00a0 A credo acknowledges that flesh and blood people live and learn in different times and spaces.\u00a0A credo combines the stability of core personal convictions with the flexibility to modify them in the light of new experiences and knowledge.<\/p>\n
A core conviction among Unitarians, the first of the faith\u2019s seven essential principles, is to affirm and promote \u201cThe inherent worth and dignity of every person.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0They practice that principle by creating among themselves a climate in which individuals are not only free to, but are encouraged to, even expected to, create their own credos, their own values and beliefs.\u00a0 Unitarian Universalism is a \u201creligion that puts its faith in you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Individual members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship believe in their own deeply held \u201ccredo.\u201d \u00a0They aren\u2019t expected to adopt a common \u201ccreed.\u201d A credo is a personal philosophy that completes sentence stems like: \u201cI believe\u2026\u201d\u00a0 or \u201cI value\u2026\u201d In contrast, a creed is an official doctrine, created long ago by professional theologians, that is … Continue reading We Have a Credo, Not a Creed [#36]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}