creedal en · ADJ
Etymology
From creed + -al.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to a creed.
[…] This liberal idea that the nation is a commitment to a set of fairly abstract values—that you can’t really build a nation on that. That what gets called creedal nationalism—this nationalism of a shared story—that's not, for you, a real nation. That it won't hold together.
2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times:For every branch of jurisprudence secular or sacred and therefore also for canonical and creedal jurisprudence, this implies at least the following five issues: enactment, ratification, enforcement, compliance, interpretation.
2005, Jaroslav Pelikan, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition:These creedal principles deeply shaped American politics during the heyday of the neoliberal order.
2022, Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Introduction:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| credal | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
multicreedal · creedalism · non-creedal · creedalist · intercreedal · noncreedal