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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...

Christian thought which associated with ‘generation’ ideas inconsistent with the unchangeableness of God. The doctrine of an Eternal Generation was unknown to Ignatius, and any lower conception was felt to be unworthy of the Divine Essence. But to deny to the Eternal Logos a generation such as Ignatius had in view, was not to deny His prehistoric Sonship. The conception of a Divine Sonship was realised by the Church before the conception of a Divine generation, and Ignatius belonged to the earlier
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