Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Doctrine, from the Bible to the PresentJohn H. Leith Creeds of the Churches offers, in one comprehensive volume, the major Christian statements of faith from biblical times to the present. The third edition has been updated to include the Athanasian Creed, the London Confession, the Frankfurt Declaration, and the Lima Text, among others. A brief introduction to each creed explains its place in the developing theology of the Christian community. |
Contents
SecondCentury Creedal Developments | 16 |
The Roman Symbol and the Apostles Creed | 22 |
The Creed of Nicaea 325 | 28 |
The Definition of Chalcedon 451 | 34 |
The Second Council of Constantinople 553 | 45 |
The Image of Controversy | 53 |
Council of Florence 143845 The Doctrine | 60 |
Lutheran Confessions | 61 |
The Cambridge Platform 1648 | 385 |
Creeds of the Modern Roman Catholicism | 399 |
Vatican Council II Dogmatic Constitution on | 459 |
The Confession of Dositheus 1672 | 485 |
The Barmen Declaration 1934 | 517 |
the Creed of | 555 |
The Ecumenical Movement | 566 |
Affirmation of Union Edinburgh 1937 | 572 |
vii | 70 |
Reformed Creeds | 127 |
The English Reformation | 230 |
Anabaptist Confessions | 281 |
The Helvetic Consensus | 308 |
Theses Theologicae of Robert Barclay 1675 | 323 |
Baptist Creeds | 334 |
Methodism | 353 |
A Message from the Second Assembly of | 578 |
The Holy Spirit and the Catholicity of the Church | 590 |
Baptism Eucharist and Ministry Lima 1982 | 604 |
The Mission of the Church | 658 |
Recent Statements of the Faith | 696 |
Addendum | 704 |
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