creed-bound

If the seeds of these appeals fall on the fertile minds of mentally advanced humanity, they will flourish; if they fall on the barren ground of creed-bound minds, they take no root.

The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks

This vision is but a product of his scientific armamentarium and is the means by which he is assured of victory over the well-entrenched and fortified position of the supernaturalists who are still creed-bound to use antiquated and useless weapons.

The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks

But he was never popular with the creed-bound element of the church.

Polly of the Circus Margaret Mayo 1916

Truth cannot be found in creed-bound religion; who seeks it must be untrammeled by allegiance to any one.

Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship 1910

But he was never popular with the creed-bound element of the church.

Polly of the Circus 1908

Thus far there were only scarcely perceptible shadows and momentary weaknesses, warning signs of decadence; but when such signs are evident, decadence is at hand, and that which the virility of the barbarians had preserved was to be lost through the creed-bound dignity of an academic China, which was imprisoned in a rigid system of rules.

Chinese Painters A Critical Study Raphael Petrucci 1906

It was a prayer, as if forth from those lonely purple reaches and walls of red and clefts of blue might ride a fearless man, neither creed-bound nor creed-mad, who would hold up a restraining hand in the faces of her ruthless people.

Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905

One of the strong teachers this, one not afraid of a departure, and one of those who, within the last quarter of a century, have laid the foundations of new American universities deep and wide, and given to the youth facilities for a learning not creed-bound, nor school-bound, but both liberal and of all utility.

A Man and a Woman Stanley Waterloo 1879

He is often as incredulous, resentful, and contemptuous as the creed-bound religionist at the approach of more light, and the suggestion that all these essential problems were included and solved ages ago in ancient

The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology 1877

Would not a wider love supersede the creed-bound charity of sects?

Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870