The Theologues’s Creed

Primus: I believe in the eternal World-Ground, the source and first cause of the universe, conceived as a unitary and spiritual, personal being; in respect to attributes, endowed with immutability, omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence. That this World-Ground is immanent throughout the entirety of metaphysical existence, and, touching ethical considerations, is absolute in justice, righteousness and ethnical intensity, the which are coupled with beneficent complacency and divine good will.

Secundus: I believe that the said personality is self-manifested, or self-revealed throughout the entire compass of the astronomical, geographical…and other rationally construed realms.

That the aforesaid is further self-manifested in anthropological and sociological realms: to wit, in the progressively evolutionary on-goings apparent in historic phenomena, in the scriptural hagiographical productions appropriately canonized, as well as in the psychological consciousness of anthropological individuals, particularly in the God-consciousness of Jesus.

Ad Tertium: I believe in the paternity of the aforesaid deity, and in the fraternity of Adam’s progeny, the latter to be appropriately manifest by sympathetic and whole-hearted goodfellowship in all mutual relations. In the personal, individual, and spiritual realization of the above paternity and fraternity that the consummation of the ultimate social order, namely, the Kingdom of God, is begun and, in part, already realized.

Ad Quartum: I believe in a life appropriately balanced between the ideal and the practical, and constantly exchibiting contemplation paralleled by energetic efforts toward the highest ethical and humanitiarian aims, with peculiar emphasis upon securing a righterous demeanor on the part of fellow humans.

Ad Quintum: I further believe in an ecclesiastical organization truely [sic] catholic, in that it shall be as intellectually respectable as the Unitarians’, as ethical as the Hebrews’, as cosmopolitanly humanitarian as implied in Universalism, as democratic as Congregationalism, as well-supported as Catholicism, as warm-hearted as Methodism, and a priori and practically containing every other advantage of the 606 denominations of the mundane sphere.

Ad Sextum: I believe in the propriety of the anathematization of untoward efforts at hyper-speculation and over-dogmatization in the manipulation and construction of theological and ecclesiastical tenets.

                                                            Singed by my hand,

R. R. Mitchell.

A theological fiend.