Table of Contents

Preface Bibliography Abbreviations 1. Creedal Elements in the New Testament 2. Creeds and Baptism 3. The Movement Towards Fixity 4. The old Roman Creed 5. The teaching of the old Roman Creed 6. Creeds Western and Eastern 7. The Creed of Nicea 8. The Meaning and use of the Nicene Creed 9. The Age of Synodal Creeds 10. The Constantinopolitan Creed 11. The Teaching and History of Creed 12. The Apostles' Creed 13. The origins of the Apostles' Creed Index

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A comprehensive study of the well known and not so well known creeds

About the Author

Until his retirement in 1979, J.N.D. Kelly was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford and from 1948 to 1976 was University Lecturer in Patristic Studies there and is also a Fellow of the British Academy.  Among his other books are Early Christian Doctrines.  He died in 1997.

Reviews

'Dr Kelly's justly celebrated book.'
*Journal of Theological Studies*

'...the standard work on credal formularies.'
*Tablet, The*

'J.N.D. Kelly's classic study...every pomise of occupying the position of a standard work for a long time to come.'
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