Introduction: when faith is passed from mouth to mouth Before the Gospels were written, even before the first Christian communities had organized texts, something already existed—alive, vibrant, and deeply transformative: oral formulas. They were not mere phrases. They were confessions of faith, liturgical proclamations, theological syntheses that condensed into a …
Read More »Before the Gospels, there was already faith: the forgotten power of oral formulas that sustained Christianity
