Other personal or short
creedal statements are found in the New Testament, such as, "Jesus is Lord" or Peter's response to Jesus's question of "Who do you say I am?" with the confession "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
It's timely, as Brian Flanagan explains, because holiness is at the heart of the church's identity, "one of the earliest
creedal statements made about the church," and one that we repeat regularly: "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church." And this is the paradox that Flanagan takes on in Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church, that the church, sinful as it is, is at the same time the manifestation of God's transcendent holiness.
Then there do exist Sufi orders where
creedal differences are obliterated and where even the distinction between the Muslim and non-Muslim is thrown into obscurity.
In the other camp are the
creedal nationalists who define the nation in broad, abstract, and universal terms.
They are less likely to be anchored in a political party, church or some other
creedal community.
Academia prefers historical-critical methodology in the quest for the historical Jesus contra the
creedal authority of the Gospel narratives as believed and preached in the Ecclesia.
Dominique-Sila Khan in her book, "Sacred Kerala- A Spiritual Journey" narrates a number of practices and traditions that contain the seeds of a truly universal spirituality that transcends narrow
creedal boundaries.
Instead he historicizes, contextualizes, and thereby relativizes
creedal Christology and Trinitarianism as one possible way of developing theology faithful to the New Testament, which at the same time "open[s] the door to bypassing the classic language" (79).
drone strike in April 2016, and ideologues such as sharia council members Sami al-Uraydi and Abu Abdullah al-Shami, bringing together both military experience and
creedal puritanism.
Not until the third chapter does he get into early attempts to relate Father, Son, and Spirit that were later rejected as heretical, and into the
creedal statements of Nicaea, Constantinople, and Chalcedon.