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Prominent early-20th-century liberal humanists, such as John Dewey, rejected traditional credal religion but freely used religious language like “God” and “the divine” in nonstandard ways.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2012

"We're not trying to get everybody under one credal statement here," he said.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, like all other Unitarians, he makes no credal demands on mankind, save only the one affirmation of their common faith, with its inevitable ergo: God is Love, and therefore to be worshipped.

From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold

While this sums up in devotional form the Christian thought as to one of the mysteries of faith, the hymn of a character more distinctly credal, called "Quicunque vult," enshrines it in another aspect.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden

On his lips, credal definitions are perpetually passing over from the arid region of theological argument to the fruitful one of spiritual experience.

From Ruysbroeck by Underhill, Evelyn