A comprehensive study of the rise, development and use of credal formulaines in the creative centuries of the Church's history.

J.N.D. Kelly Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Chapter I Credal Elements in the New Testament; Chapter II Creeds and Baptism; Chapter III The Movement Towards Fixity; Chapter IV The Old Roman Creed; Chapter V The Teaching of the Old Roman Creed; Chapter VI Creeds Western and Eastern; Chapter VII The Creed of Nicaea; Chapter VIII The Meaning and Use of the Nicene Creed; Chapter IX The Age of Synodal Creeds; Chapter X The Constantinopolitan Creed; Chapter XI The Teaching and History of C; Chapter XII The Apostles' Creed; Chapter XIII The Origins of the Apostles' Creed;