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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...

“THE words He descended into Hell are not in the Creed of the Church of Rome.” So Rufinus tells us at the end of the fourth century. He adds that they were unknown to the Churches of the East1. This is true so far as regards the baptismal creeds; no Eastern form contains the clause or anything corresponding to it. Yet, before Rufinus wrote his commentary, the doctrine of the Descent had found a place in three synodical declarations, put forth by the Arian assemblies gathered at Sirmium, Nice,
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