Jesus’ designation as liberator enjoys more theological capital than Jesus as represented in the language of the ecumenical creeds. The status of creedal Christology (e.g., Councils of Nicaea, Chalcedon, Ephesus) in contemporary theology in Latin America is somewhat ambivalent. The creeds are considered a valuable (though not normative) dogmatic and hermeneutical framework in Latin American theologies among both Roman Catholics and Protestants. The confessional language provides grammatical rules