How the Creed takes us out of ourselves

Garry Williams  |  Features  |  Think more deeply
Date posted:  1 Oct 2020
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How the Creed takes us 
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The Basilica Cistern, part of Roman Constantinople (now Istanbul) where the Nicene Creed was revised | photo: iStock

A new series from leading theologian, Garry Williams, encouraging us to engage systematically with theology via the Nicene Creed

‘We believe in one God’

You may have read or said the Nicene Creed* beginning either ‘I believe’ or ‘We believe’. The Church of England, for example, has ‘I believe’ in the Book of Common Prayer, but both ‘I’ and ‘We’ appear in the recent Common Worship liturgies. The original Greek text had ‘We believe’ and seems to have been changed so that the Creed could serve as an individual profession of faith.

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