Credal:
- any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- any system or codification of belief or of opinion.
- an authoritative, formulated statement of the chief articles of Christian belief, as the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, or the Athanasian Creed.
- the creed, Apostles’ Creed.
Noted in “Kennedy’s speech — so how’d he do?” Jennifer Rubin, WaPo:
That is precisely how all politicians should talk and what is entirely missing — even scorned — in the Trump GOP. Are we going to be a credal nation (“We hold these truths … ”) or a nation that is defined as white and Christian? The GOP has adopted the latter, which contradicts the former and betrays decades of conservative rhetoric.
