Early christian creeds
Provides a study of the rise, development and use of formularies in the creative centuries of the Church's history. This book opens with an examination of creedal elements in the New Testament and features an enquiry into the relation of creeds to the rite of Baptism. It also contains a reconstruction of the expansion of the Roman Creed.
XI, 446 p. 22 cm
9780826492166, 0826492169
1056622861
Preface; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Creedal Elements in the New Testament; Creeds and Baptism; The Movement Towards Fixity; The old Roman Creed; The teaching of the old Roman Creed; Creeds Western and Eastern. The Creed of Nicea; The Meaning and use of the Nicene Creed; The Age of Synodal Creeds; The Constantinopolitan Creed; The Teaching and History of Creed; The Apostles' Creed; The origins of the Apostles' Creed; Index.