Sentences with phrase «ancient creeds»

While some may have wondered what was the most adequate way of attempting to portray the Holy Trinity, the risen Lord Jesus is described by the two most ancient creeds as sitting on the right hand of God the Father, and so it naturally led to a mental picture in which the three «persons» of the Trinity were pictured as individual forms though acting in unison.

The ecclesiastical promulgation of transcendent Christologies, informed by ancient creeds torn out of their historical contexts, is another kind of Babylonian captivity that restrains Christians from entering into a horizontal relationship with the risen Lord and enjoying the ecstatic sense of self - worth that he wills to share by drawing them into his I AM.

«That's fifteen centuries; and the ancient creeds unite the Orthodox East, Roman Catholics, and mainstream Protestants!

What do you think accounts for this renewed interest in tradition - observing the religious calendar, reciting daily prayers and ancient creeds, incorporating symbols into worship, etc..

Finally, if one goes by texts and not anecdotes, the UCC Constitution and Statement of Faith represent who we really claim corporately to be, not to mention the seven recent volumes of The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, tracing our lineage from the ancient creeds forward.

The language used in the ancient creeds no longer communicates; so what those creeds said in their time must be restated for our time.

While Protestant Christians are convinced that, for the sake of their faith and conscience, they may not be joined to us in the same Church and Eucharist, they yet do not have the same difficulties with regard to those of their fellow Christians in whose theology hardly anything is left of the ancient creeds of the Reformers.

In an effort to get the New Testament on the side of the liberal revisionists, exegetes are feverishly reworking their understanding of the old proof - texts for the true deity of Christ in order to undercut the metaphysical approach of the ancient creeds and of the vast majority of Christians.

Thus for all their rhetoric about «Scripture alone,» Protestants in the sixteenth century, and Baptists in the seventeenth and eighteenth, not only affirmed the dogmas of the early church in the language of the ancient creeds, but also added to these classic statements their own particular confessions of faith.

The ancient creed has become new!»

The ancient creeds, the Apostle's, the Nicaean and the Athanasian, contain different numbers of articles, formulated to meet different difficulties, [13] but today the chief things of which we are said to be assured by faith are that God exists and Jesus Christ was the son of God, both human and divine.

And among the most powerful of these symbols are the unabashedly visual ones, whether in New Testament narrative, ancient creed, Renaissance fresco or Reformation hymn.

Similarly, another artist, John Sebastian Bach, has made it possible for us to hear, in the Credo of the Mass in B Minor, the musical interpretation of the words of this ancient creed which faithfully reproduces the New Testament faith in Christ's resurrection and our own.

In order for anyone to unequivocally subscribe to any ancient creed, a presupposed doctrine of revelation is necessary.There's only one line in the Apostle's Creed that is non-metaphysical which is...» He suffered under Pontious Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried.

You think a presupposed doctrine of revelation is necessary for any one to accept any of the ancient creeds.

Mormons simply don't believe in the precepts of the ancient creeds such as the Nicean Creed, Apostles Creed, etc..