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The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes, Volume I: The History of Creeds is unavailable, but you can change that!

In The Creeds of Christendom, Philip Schaff offers a critical analysis of the most important and fully developed expressions of faith. Through the words of the creeds, Schaff explains that honest controversy can produce lasting union, and that the theological controversies of the historic church have made the present church stronger. Schaff writes these volumes for a church divided, and begs a...

no difficulty, as it was in the original Nicene Creed, but it is useless on account of the following ‘Deus verus de Deo vero,’ and hence was omitted in the Constantinopolitan edition. The Nicene Creed (without these Western additions) is more highly honored in the Greek Church than in any other, and occupies the same position there as the Apostles’ Creed in the Latin and Protestant Churches. It is incorporated and expounded in all the orthodox Greek and Russian Catechisms. It is also (with the Filioque)
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