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This work is a comprehensive study of both the well- and the lesser-known creeds. J. N. D. Kelly presents the rise, development, and use of formularies in the creative centuries of the Church’s history. The book opens with an examination of creedal elements in the New Testament and continues with an enquiry into the relation of creeds to the rite of baptism. Kelly then studies the evidence for...

actual service, succeeded in establishing itself securely in the baptismal liturgy itself. Thus far the popular theory whose credentials we are examining may be considered to have justified itself. The warning was given, however, at the beginning that its vindication, even so far as concerns the period subsequent to the fourth century, would have to be subject to certain reservations. The first of these is that, for the early centuries at any rate, the declaratory creed was not the only nor the most
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