And I keep coming back to the covenantal vs. credal thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Scattered thoughts on a divided spiritual identity.] Reference

It is, after all, credal to the American national understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Subsidizing Homeownership] Reference

Being non-credal is a positive choice, not a "Watch This Space" sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Theological diversity watch.] Reference

I have suggested a model for credal composition that looks for its primary model in thanksgiving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creed and the Eucharist in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn] Reference

I happen to have a doctorate and I do not regard it as a statment of faith or a credal confession.    From Wordnik.com.  [All those liars for Jesus] Reference

Was there an Antiochene style of praying the pre-Sanctus which provided a framework for conciliar credal formulation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creed and the Eucharist in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn] Reference

Any interaction among individuals affecting the credal states of some of them might be considered a social-epistemic relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Epistemology] Reference

They differ in many points from the standards of 500 years earlier and from those of 1,500 years later, but the divergences are neither racial nor credal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

One should not falsify the ancient and current Irish equation with passionate simplicities, but try to clarify by defusing some of the explosive credal myths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Irish Situation] Reference

The third step, following inexorably from the first two, leads to the dogmatic or credal declaration of the reality of angels as an article of religious faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angels and Us] Reference

The general synod on Tuesday agreed that apartheid was sinful, but could on Wednesday not reach agreement that the Belhar confession be accepted as a credal standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In summary, the evidence suggests quite strongly that Basil's prayer is part of a recognisable pattern of credal language in the Antiochene world (West Syria and Asia Minor).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creed and the Eucharist in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn] Reference

If the reading proposed is right, there is a clear interaction between the credal formulae of the Antiochene Councils and this particular portion of the liturgy in that region.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creed and the Eucharist in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn] Reference

The assent to a certain credal basis, the meeting in great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.] Reference

It is also a credal community, although revisionists have softened this element in recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Joe] Reference

I heard the most eloquent of their advocates say, when comparing spiritual with credal conviction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference

Gnost. theories; Logos as fifth aeon in Valentinian system; 6. in credal formulations; 7. in doxologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maggie's Farm] Reference

The way it stresses ecumenical unity and its non-credal approach matches her preaching style, she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [QCOnline Metro News] Reference

Men have tried to appoint social limits, and national limits, and ecclesiastical limits, and credal limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers] Reference

Heynes threw his weight about, was thwarted by the cathedral canons, then by the credal conservatism of the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts: News] Reference

I just don't see any way around the central dilemma - how do you declare a credal statement for a creedless faith?.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

Now, where it becomes tricky is discerning how one chooses to interpret the various lines of the credal statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [GetReligion] Reference

This credal confession struck me as just as superstitious as believing in the historicity of Noah's Ark. More so, really.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

I am not claiming her as a nontheist or a non-Christian, but she was a ferociously anti-credal and anti-dogmatic as anyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Forum - Quaker Quaker] Reference

Or men recoil from some phrase in a credal statement of the faith, and they turn their back upon the Lord of life and glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers] Reference

(1807-1883), is almost entirely superseded by Ken's stanza, being of even more pronounced credal character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference

This credal confession struck me as just as superstitious as believing in the historicity of Noah’s Ark. More so, really.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science] Reference

Belhar as a credal standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

UUism is covenantal, not credal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Theological diversity watch.] Reference

Those ties are not “credal” but organic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

A credal connection is not a vital communion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels] Reference