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No Creed but Christ
Window/Panel (INTERIOR)
Central Christian Church
About the Artwork
In their quest for a united church, the pioneer fathers felt that formal creedal statements were only divisive. They rejected the historic creed of the church, such as the Nicean and Apostles creeds, as mere human intrepretation raised to the heights of scriptural authority. Not that they disagreed with the content of the creeds, but they objected to their use as a test of Christian Fellowship. Campbell could see no value in creedal statements except to create a "pernicious tendency of religious controversy among Christians."
We can see the extent of the influence of rational philosophy upon the minds of the Restoration fathers. Each man is given the capacity to read and interpret the Scriptures without the binding interpretations of creedal statements. The same tide swept away the authority of other Christian doctrines of the trinity and predestination. To these rational men, these doctrines evolved into church law after the writing of the New Testament, and thus were void of any divine authority.
The window represents the "creedlessness" of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). One of the battle slogans which emerged out of the Restoration Movement was "No Creed but Christ." It became a clarion call to thousands of frontier folk who sought relief from the repressive creeds and doctrines of the historic church. It was simple and direct, thus appealing to the unsophisticated frontiersman. It said that the revelation of the Word of God in Jesus Christ was the only authority for the practice of Christian belief and behavior.
The kingly figure represented in the window draws our attention to Jesus Christ who walks among us today guiding us in our search for the Truth. This figure is gleeming white, like that which appeared to the Disciples when Jesus descended from the Mount of Transfiguration. The figure seems to be coming at us with his right hand uplifted as in an act of ordination. The background is an indication of the cross in darker violet and blue col
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