Religious bodies are prone to rest their case with verbal formulas, sometimes intentionally ambiguous in meaning, and resist any efforts to carry through to valid interpretations and application of them. (religion-online.org)
Moreover, we must exchange our feelings with one another, and in doing so we have to speak, and to use general and abstract verbal formulas. (religion-online.org)
In every community and in every age verbal formulas need to be critically examined and reinterpreted, through dialogue and fresh experience, in order that their power as bearers of meaning, and hence as creators of authentic human existence, may be assured. (religion-online.org)