The beliefs of a religion also reflecting the values are expressed in creeds, dogmas, and doctrines, and form what Durkheim calls a credo.

Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with " We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church.

The Baptists have been non-creedal “ in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another .” Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada and the Churches of Christ.

Protestant denominations are usually associated with confessions of faith, which are similar to creeds but usually longer and polemical, as well as didactic.

While many Baptists are not opposed to the ancient creeds, they regard them as " not so final that they cannot be revised and re-expressed.

Although Disciples respect the great creeds of the church as informative affirmations of faith, they are never seen as binding.

" With that in mind, Rupert Gethin explains that the four noble truths are not asserted as propositional truths or creeds.

The very earliest accounts of belief are contained in these texts, such as early Christian creeds and hymns, as well as accounts of the Passion, the empty tomb, and Resurrection appearances ; some of these are dated to the 30s or 40s CE, originating within the Jerusalem Church.

Manifestos relating to religious belief are generally referred to as creeds.

" Smith further claimed that in answer to his prayer: " I was answered Jesus that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong ; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight ; that those professors were all corrupt ; that: " they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.

The Book of Confessions outlines the beliefs of the PC ( USA ) by declaring the creeds by which the Church's leaders are instructed and led.

Though embedded within the texts of the New Testament, these creeds are a distinct source for early Christianity.

The United Methodist Church understands itself to be part of the holy catholic ( or universal ) church and it recognizes the historic ecumenical creeds, the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed ; which are used frequently in services of worship.

Although Article VIII itself states that the three Catholic creeds are a sufficient statement of faith, the Articles have often been perceived as the nearest thing to a supplementary confession of faith possessed by the tradition.

Included are the facilities, offices, furnishings, visible awards and recognition, the way that its members dress, how each person visibly interacts with each other and with organizational outsiders, and even company slogans, mission statements and other operational creeds.

* Evangelists: There are various independent Evangelist churches of different creeds in La Rioja.

* Creeds divide, but Christians should be able to find agreement by standing on the Bible itself ( from which they believe all creeds are but human expansions or constrictions ).

Study of this process seeks to determine the manner in which, or extent to which religious creeds, practices and institutions are losing social significance.

Many churches with roots in Restorationism reject being identified as Protestant or even as a denomination at all, as they use only the Bible not creeds, and model the church after what they feel is the first century church found in scripture ; the Churches of Christ are one example ; African Initiated Churches, like Kimbanguism, mostly fall within Protestantism, with varying degrees of syncretism.

Christian views of Jesus are based on the teachings and beliefs as outlined in the Canonical gospels, New Testament letters, the Christian creeds, as well as specific denominational teachings.

Christian views of Jesus are based on the teachings and beliefs outlined in the Canonical gospels, New Testament letters, and the Christian creeds.

Although embedded within the texts of the New Testament, these creeds are a distinct source for Early Christianity.

The Fakir and Goshai was with the stronger religious influence, and there are even Bauls who would shave off their heads as in their past and kept on practicing and believing in many of the basic creeds of Vaishnava-Sahajiya Buddhism.

The creeds of Christianity have been drawn up at times of conflict about doctrine: acceptance or rejection of a creed served to distinguish believers and deniers of a particular doctrine or set of doctrines.

Both groups sought to restore the whole Christian church on the pattern set forth in the New Testament, and both believed that creeds kept Christianity divided.

Mandaean theology is based more on a common heritage than on any set of religious creeds and doctrines.

Graves ' Quaker background conditioned him to the philosophy of the Inner light, whereby all clergy, creeds, and set liturgy in worship were irrelevant, and a hindrance to God's work.

The Makuyas stress “ a return to the dynamic faith of the original Gospel of early Hebraic Christianity, as opposed to the dogmatic, institutionalized, European-dominated churches .” In their view, when Biblical religion was introduced to the Hellenistic world, its lively spirit was interpreted within Greek logic and eventually replaced by a set of theological creeds.

In late March 302, Diocletian responded: the Manicheans " have set up new and hitherto unheard of sects in opposition to the older creeds so that they might cast out the doctrines vouchsafed to us in the past by divine favour, for the benefit of their own depraved doctrine ".

to break down all religious barriers and destroy America's materialism and amalgamate all creeds into a common element of love ".

Unitarian Christians reject the doctrine of some Christian denominations that God chooses to redeem or save only those certain individuals that accept the creeds of, or affiliate with, a specific church or religion, from a common ruin or corruption of the mass of humanity.

Campbell's solution for achieving Christian unity combined forsaking the creeds and traditions that had divided Christians with a recovery of the primitive Christianity, found in scripture, that was the common denominator for all Christians.

Aconcio sought to find the common denominator of the various creeds ; this was essential doctrine, the rest was immaterial.

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Some of the common creeds are ( with year of writing ):

Modern Disciples reject the use of creeds as " tests of faith ," that is, as required beliefs, necessary to be accepted as a follower of Jesus.

He was not a philosophical thinker or theologian, though he insisted, with an energy and persistency before unknown, on certain distinctions of great importance when properly worked out and applied, e. g. the distinction between religion and theology, that between private personal beliefs and public historical creeds, and that between the local and temporal and the permanent elements of historical religion.

This belief of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost being physically distinct beings is in contrast to most denominations of Christianity which derive their beliefs of the relationship of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost from creeds, such as the Nicean Creed, and early Catholic tradition.

While orthodoxies make use of codified beliefs, in the form of creeds, and ritualism more narrowly centers on the strict adherence to prescribed rites or rituals, orthopraxy is focused on issues of family, cultural integrity, the transmission of tradition, sacrificial offerings, concerns of purity, ethical systems, and the enforcement thereof.

They view it as more important and challenging than the acceptance of those fixed beliefs found in the past by others and embedded in church creeds.

He felt that the Anglican Church was in the unique position to harness the natural moral impulse that stemmed from society itself, as long as the Church replaced theology with science, abandoned supernatural beliefs, expanded its bible to include a cross-cultural selection of ethical literature and reinterpreted its creeds and liturgy in light of modern ethics and psychology.