TY - BOOK TI - Creeds of the churches: a reader in Christian doctrine from the Bible to the present SN - 0804205159 AV - BT 990 .A1 C86 1973 PY - 1973/// CY - Richmond, VA PB - John Knox Press KW - CREEDS KW - COLLECTIONS KW - THEOLOGY N1 - PREFACE -- THE CREEDS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE CHURCH -- THE BIBLE -- SECOND-CENTURY CREEDAL DEVELOPMENTS -- RULES OF FAITH -- THE ROAMAN SYMBOL AND THE APOSTLES' CREED -- EASTERN CREEDS -- THE CREED OF NICAEA -- THE CONSTANTINOPOLITAN CREED -- THE DEFINITION OF CHALCEDON -- THE COUNCIL OF ORANGE -- THE SECOND COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE -- THE IMAGE CONTROVERSY -- FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL -- COUNCIL OF FLORENCE -- LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS -- REFORMED CREEDS -- THE ENGLISH REFORMATION -- ANABAPTIST CONFESSIONS -- PROTESTANT SCHOLASTICISM: THE HELVETIC CONSENSUS FORMULA -- THESES THEOLOGICAE OF ROBERT BARCLAY -- BAPTIST CREEDS -- METHODISM -- THE CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM -- CREEDS OF MODERN ROMAN CATHOLICISM -- THE CONFESSION OF DOSITHEUS -- THE BARMEN DECLARATION -- THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO THE WARY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH -- A CREED OF THE YOUNGER CHURCHES: THE CREED OF THE BATAK CHURCH -- THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT -- RECENT STATEMENTS OF THE FAITH ER -