Both Uses of
creed
in
Middlemarch
- We knew our catechism, and that was enough; we learned our creed and our duty.†
Chpt 2 *
- …apt to do, on the Lutheran doctrine of justification, as that by which a Church must stand or fall, Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; if Mrs. Wimple insisted on a particular providence in relation to her stomach complaint, Dr. Minchin for his part liked to keep the mental windows open and objected to fixed limits; if the Unitarian brewer jested about the Athanasian Creed, Dr. Minchin quoted Pope's "Essay on Man."†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(creed) any system of principles or beliefs