Tag Archive for ‘Nicene Creed’
Reciting the Creed
I lecture to seminarians about Theology, I am teaching the ‘Trinity’ paper at present. The standard systematic approach to any theological question is: ‘What does Scripture and Tradition have to say about it?’ Scripture is all found in the one book, but the Tradition is harder to define. The most important texts after the scriptures […]
That Clumsy Word in the Creed: CONSUBSTANTIAL
The first part of the Creed dates back to the Council of Nicaea (325AD). It was composed in Greek, and was not originally intended as part of the liturgy. This “new” word corresponds exactly to a single word of the Latin text.
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