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  • noun In theology, something to be believed; an article of faith; a matter of belief, as distinguished from agendum, a matter of practice: usually in the plural.

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  • noun (Theol.) A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguished from agendum, a practical duty.

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  • noun theology Something to be believed; an article of faith.

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  • noun (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided

Etymologies

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Latin

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Examples

  • Richard Dawkins, in keeping with the contemporary liberal credendum, assumes that there must be a gay gene.

    2010 April « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • Richard Dawkins, in keeping with the contemporary liberal credendum, assumes that there must be a gay gene.

    Richard Dawkins explains how the gay gene was preserved « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • Maxime suspiciosi, et ad pejora credendum proclives.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Turks especially deride, Christ's incarnation, resurrection of the body at the last day, quod ideo credendum (saith Tertullian) quod incredible, &c. many miracles not to be controverted or disputed of.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tygris, et Euphrates, ab ista dimidia parte terrae circa Æquatoris circulum terrae influentes, quapropter et merito credendum videtur, exire de eodem fonte et alia quatuor flumina irrigantia terram oppositam, quae est circa alteram dimidiam partem circuli

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Upon all these occasions the world seems to have embraced a maxim of our law, viz., cuicunque in arte sua perito credendum est8: for it seems perhaps difficult to conceive that any one should have had enough of impudence to lay down dogmatical rules in any art or science without the least foundation.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Tygris, et Euphrates, ab ista dimidia parte terrae circa 苢uatoris circulum terrae influentes, quapropter et merito credendum videtur, exire de eodem fonte et alia quatuor flumina irrigantia terram oppositam, quae est circa alteram dimidiam partem circuli

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Qui tamen non de Patre procedit in Filium, et de Filio procedit ad sanctificandam creaturam, sicut quidam male intelligentes credendum esse putabant, sed simul de utroque procedit.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Filio procedit ad sanctificandam creaturam, sicut quidam male intelligentes credendum esse putabant, sed simul de utroque procedit.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Externae igitur omnes et humanae persuasiones non sunt satis ad credendum, quantumcunque ab hominibus competenter ea quae sunt fidei proponantur; sed necessaria est insuper causa interior, hoc est, divinum quoddam lumen, incitans ad credendum, et oculi quidam interiores Dei beneficio ad videndum dati: [5498] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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  • "In theology, something to be believed; an article of faith; a matter of belief, as distinguished from agendum, a matter of practice: usually in the plural."

    --Century Dictionary

    April 7, 2011