0 a set of beliefs that influences the way you live --
1 a short, formal statement of Christian religious belief, said in church --
2 a formal statement or system of esp. religious beliefs: --
Exploring the moral heart of teaching: towards a teacher's creed.
On this view, it means to believe the whole creed to be more probable than any alternatives to it as regards one item or other.
And so all doctors must seek trust and deserve it as their moral law, as their creed.
Moreover, the view of early liberty of private judgement had an important corollary for general discussions of creeds and confessions.
It also covers religious societies that are dedicated to advocating and spreading the creeds regarded by the rulers as fallacies threatening to their ideological hegemony.
First, nature itself came to be seen as indifferent to creed.
Second, once nature was divorced from creed, natural philosophy and allied disciplines too came to be seen (by some) as theologically neutral.
Second, once nature was divorced from creed, natural philosophy and allied disciplines too came to be seen (by some) as a theologically neutral discipline.