creedal statement

Bottom line, American exceptionalism is a creedal statement that it cannot happen here.

“Most of the members of my own churches in the Diocese of New York would not have been able to sign off on that creedal statement and would therefore not be invited or permitted to participate in that ministry inside their own cathedral,” the bishop said.

While the Unitarian body thus retained its use of the Christian name and its insistence upon loyalty to the teachings of Jesus, yet it put aside every form of dogmatic test and of creedal statement.

Occasionally there was a confession of faith or a creedal statement; but it was regarded as quite unnecessary because it was implied in the general acceptance of the Calvinistic doctrines, and the use of the Cambridge platform or other similar document.