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The rule of faith was a summary of apostolic preaching and teaching made by writers of the early Christian centuries. As such it carries great importance for what the early church considered basic to its being and identity. The rule was not a fixed creed, but varied in wording and content according to circumstances. Yet, despite this flexibility and diversity, there is a clear Christ-centered,...

3), Irenaeus says this is “the firm and true preaching of the church, according to which the one and same way of salvation is shown in the whole world.… For the church everywhere preaches the truth” (Against Heresies 5.20.1).3 In his Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching he summarized the contents as “the preaching of the truth” (Demonstration 98). Clement of Alexandria identified the rule with the “tradition of the blessed teaching from the apostles” (Miscellanies 1.1.15.2). Tertullian argued
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