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The Apostles’ Creed: Its Relation to Primitive Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Swete’s book defending the historical and biblical underpinnings of the Apostles’ Creed grew out of a particular controversy at the end of the 19th century. Yet it remains an invaluable work that is still referenced in much of the literature on the Apostles’ Creed today. Swete traces the origin of each of the doctrines concerned, showing where it's found in Scripture, how it was developed in...

CREDO in Deum Patrem omnipotentem … et in Iesum Christum unicum Filium eius … et in Spiritum Sanctum. The theology of the Creed forms its framework. The three articles just cited are distinguished from the rest by the fresh act of faith with which each is introduced (credo in … et in … et in). Thus the Baptismal Creed is seen to rest upon the Baptismal words. It was the answer of the Church to the Lord’s final revelation of the Name of God. “As we are baptized, so (writes St Basil) must we believe1.”
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