Historically, Friends have been suspicious of formal creeds or religious philosophy that is not grounded in one's own experience.

Tess informs Alec that she, like Angel, doesn't believe in formal religious creeds.

Similarly, there is no formal creed other than the Bible.

Conservative Friends reject any formal and written creed.

However, since the Jewish community never developed any one binding catechism, it is impossible to pick out only one person's formal creed and hold it as binding.

As such they recognise no central ecclesiastical authority, no formal creed, no prescribed liturgy nor any ordained salaried ministry.

The lack of formal creed has been a cause for criticism among some who argue that Unitarian Universalism is thus without religious content.

These are religions that are closely associated with a particular group of people, ethnicity or tribe; they often have no formal creeds or sacred texts.

When language is used, prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creed, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person.

Its lesson - that love, loyalty and friendship matter more than status or material things - is the perfect allegorical correlative to its formal creed.