This is why scriptures occupy an important place in every religious community: they represent early and fundamental expressions of that community's faith - experience.12 In fact, many religious believers regard scriptures as the embodiment of God's disclosure to them or to their founder. (religion-online.org)
Moreover, it is a fundamental expression of the Christian synthesis of cosmos and history, of being rooted in the once - for - all events of salvation history while going out to meet the Lord who is to come again. (firstthings.com)
The right to criticize, which is a fundamental expression of freedom, must be guaranteed for every one. (religion-online.org)