Tillich disagreed with any literal philosophical and religious statements that can be made about God.
He told me, 'I will invite the minister to a class and have a girl write a religious statement on the blackboard.
In our case, we wanted to use original languages and the religious statements from each tradition.
"People could still get married, if they wanted to make a religious statement of commitment, but I don't think it should have any legal impact," she said.
It's not just a purely a religious statement.
The painting - "Black Christ" - was never meant to be a religious statement, but an attack on apartheid.
In a press release, the store's management said avoiding political or religious statements and keeping a strictly neutral course would be policy from then on.
His speech to them is described by Vatican officials as the most important religious statement of his trip.
Did you intend it to be a religious statement?
While I have no data either to support or discredit the objective reality of religious statements, they are for me null input.