The Nicene Creed: An Introduction
Digital Logos Edition
Understand and celebrate what we believe
2023 Credo Magazine Book of the Year
2024 Illumination Book Awards Gold Medal Winner - Theology
For centuries, the Nicene Creed has been central to the church’s confession. The Nicene Creed: An Introduction by Phillip Cary explores the Creed’s riches with simplicity and clarity. Cary explains the history of the Creed and walks through its meaning line by line. Far from being abstract or irrelevant, the words of the Creed carefully express what God has done in Christ and through the Spirit. The Nicene Creed gives us the gospel. It gives biblical Christians the words for what we already believe. And when we profess the Creed, we join the global church throughout history in declaring the name and work of the one God—Father, Son, and Spirit. Gain a fresh appreciation for the ancient confession with Phillip Cary’s help.
Praise for The Nicene Creed
Lively prose, engaging style, and endearing wit. … Highly recommended.
—Kathryn Greene-McCreight, affiliate priest, Christ Church, New Haven; spiritual director, Annand Program, Yale Divinity School
Here is a truly inviting introduction to the faith once delivered to the saints in baptism and continuously declared throughout the world in the church’s confession.
—Scott R. Swain, president and James Woodrow Hassell Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary
This book will tickle your imagination while expanding your vocabulary and strengthening your faith in the only begotten Son of the Father who came down from heaven to bring life to a dying world.
—Harold L. Senkbeil, author of The Care of Souls
Phillip Cary’s book is a harvest in a time of famine.
—Matthew Barrett, author of Simply Trinity and Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Introduction: The Historical Setting
- We Believe [I Believe]
- Article 1: God the Father
- Article 2, Part 1: The Eternal Son of God
- Article 2, Part 2: God Incarnate
- Article 3: The Holy Spirit
- Epilogue: The Trinity in Simple Terms
- Title: The Nicene Creed: An Introduction
- Author: Phillip Cary
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 248
- Format: Logos Digital, Hardcover
- Trim Size: 5x7.25
- ISBN: 9781683596332
Reviews
2 ratings
Glenn Crouch
10/21/2025
This is a good introduction to the Nicene Creed, and I found it to be a useful tool in my recent sermon series on the Nicene Creed (as part of the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea). The author has an easy-to-read approach and tackles items such as the Great Schism well in the space allocated. Likewise, the use of the word “catholic” in the creed, which many of us change. That being said, this is not a big book, and a number of the areas are only touched upon. I would’ve appreciated a “further reading” section, especially on the history side of things. This book is a good starting point for studying the Nicene era. Guidance on where to go next would be an improvement. Given that I have both Lutheran and Reformed Baptist backgrounds, I found theologically that the author did well in emphasising that the Creed is all about what Scripture says. And that being Creedal is not incompatible with being Sola ScripturaDr. Michael Gibney
4/12/2025