The Nicene Creed
Overview
The Nicene Creed covers the history and theology of the Creed, including the Council of Nicaea, ante-Nicene theology, and doctrines on Incarnation, God, the Holy Ghost, the church, and the sacraments. The Greek and Latin texts of the Creed are also included.
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“at the end of the controversy Arianism identified itself with the assertion that the Son is unlike the Father.” (Page 4)
“The old theory that the Creed of the Council of Nicæa of 325 a.d. was slightly altered and enlarged at the Council of Constantinople in 381 a.d., is still maintained in most of the text-books on the Prayer Book, and has recently found support from a learned Professor of the Eastern Orthodox Church.1 But its foundations have been undermined by recent research.” (Page 1)
“If there was a time when the Son was not, then He was not uncreated, but a creature” (Page 6)
“The Arians called Christ ‘good,’ but would not in the full sense call Him ‘God.’ Arius himself worshipped Christ as Divine, while denying His true Divinity, and during the controversy which followed the declaration of his denial of the Eternal Generation of the Son of God, many of his followers were ready, not only to worship Christ, but even to confess the essential Likeness of the Son to the Father.” (Page 4)
- Title: The Nicene Creed
- Author: A. E. Burn
- Series: Oxford Church Text Books
- Publisher: Rivingtons
- Print Publication Date: 1909
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Nicene Creed
- Resource ID: LLS:NICENECREED
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:46:25Z
