Pre-Nicene Creeds
The confession of faith which we Orthodox chant or sing every Sunday at our Divine Liturgy has a long and complicated history, and examining its history…
Jul 25, 2014
Posts about Nicene Creed
Nicea and Afterward
The Church had always confessed the divinity of Christ. The New Testament had proclaimed Jesus as the divine Son of God, and the phrase “Christ our God”…
Jul 24, 2014
I Believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth
To us today, it sounds a little odd to begin a creed with anything so obvious as the fact that there exists but one God, and that this almighty Father…
Jul 23, 2014
And of all things, visible and invisible
The Creed not only confesses that our God, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, is the creator of heaven and earth. It also adds the phrase that He is…
Jul 22, 2014
The Full Divinity of Jesus
As mentioned in a previous article on the history of the Nicene Creed, a controversy erupted in the church of the fourth century through the teachings…
Jul 21, 2014
The Mighty Acts of Jesus
In our present version of the Creed, after a bold assertion of Christ’s full divinity comes a recitation of His mighty acts. “For us men and for our…
Jul 20, 2014
The Holy Spirit
The third main section of the present Creed concerns the Holy Spirit and His work in the holy Church. We note that the Holy Spirit and the Church are paired…
Jul 19, 2014
The Church as Object of Faith
As mentioned before, the third main section of the present Creed concerns the Holy Spirit and His work in the holy Church, and we note that the Holy Spirit…
Jul 18, 2014
The Church as One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
We saw previously that the Creed confesses the Church as an object of faith to show how, despite all its historical liturgical diversity (especially in…
Jul 17, 2014
I Acknowledge One Baptism
Another part of the third main section of the present Creed focusing upon the Holy Spirit and His work in the holy Church concerns holy baptism. The phrase…
Jul 16, 2014
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