Dogmas have helped to hold Christians together in faith communities, but it is not the dogmas that animate and inspire. Living faith belongs to the heart rather than to the head. People grow in faith through encounters with others whose fidelity to Christ is a lived experiential witness rather than fidelity to a set of truths. Christian faith is a lived experience rather than intellectual assent to a creedal formula.

Diarmuid O'Murchu, Catching Up with Jesus