Sentences with phrase «ecumenical creeds»

Third, the early church's ecumenical creeds have given definition to a trinitarian concept of God (Nicene Creed) and to an affirmation of the human and divine natures in the person of Christ (Chalcedon Creed).

For, fundamental Christian thought (as articulated in the ecumenical creeds) and foundational Christian practice (such as worship and ethics) are more detailed reflections of apostolic teaching and practice.

Use of the ancient ecumenical creeds is lacking.

The way to a renewal of Reformed theology goes through a retrieval of «the catholic and Reformational heritage of the church,» which includes the ecumenical creeds, the confessions of the Protestant Reformation, and the writings of the Fathers and the medievals.

There are three ecumenical creeds, and they draw attention to God, to our need, to the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit, the forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

It is true that the Protestant Reformers and the Reformation confessions often endorsed the trinitarian and christological definitions of the ecumenical creeds and councils.

I like very much what Robert Louis Wilken (also a former Lutheran) said of Pelikan: He found truth in «those teachings that were solemnly declared in the ancient councils and are confessed in the ecumenical creeds.

Since ALL the Churches ACROSS the spectrum confess an allegiance to the ecumenical creeds [except some radical reformers, but I digress], the definition would certainly not be creedal or ecclesial.

(By «catholic and orthodox» I mean affirmation of the substance, if not the language, of the ecumenical creeds of the undivided church.)

A belief can be confessed and we have three ecumenical creeds that are deemed essential by orthodox believers.

In defining what we understand the word «evangelical» to signify, I adopt the perspective of Luther and Calvin as they interpret the New Testament through the ecumenical creeds and the influence of Augustine.

Encouraged by these developments, we rejoice in a greater measure of common catechesis based on Scripture and the ecumenical creeds that we share.

If you are not sure what I believe, remember that I subscribe to the Book of Concord and the Ecumenical Creeds, as well, as the Bible, all of which are clear that there is a place of torment prepared for the devil and his kind.

Examine the ecumenical creeds for more.

I also confess the three ecumenical creeds and have sworn several times to rather die than fall away from them.

The rule of faith has found written expression in the ecumenical creeds of the Church.

We affirm the authority of the Scriptures and the doctrines represented in the ecumenical creeds of the Church.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

But that does not mean that the ecumenical creeds are finished, or the scriptures upended.

There is such a thing as creedal, Christian orthodoxy, ALL Christian churches (* every * single one of them) at LEAST agrees with the first ecumenical creed, if not with all four.

Not exact matches

Arguably the foremost decision unanimously agreed upon at that assembly of church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians today.

This living tradition includes the early creeds, the ecumenical councils, and the writings of the Fathers of the Church.

As Thomas pointed out, the Christological creeds come close to an ecumenical consensus.

the truth of God can be or has been captured in the ex-cathedra utterances of the bishop of Rome — the idolatry of many who like to pretend that ultimate truth has been captured in the ecumenical councils of the early church, in the historic creeds, or in the «unbroken tradition of the catholic faith,» which usually is the same thing as the speaker's special prejudice.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

If we're going to be silly and suggest that Christianity does NOT have to talk about «Incarnation» and «Trinity» in order to be Christian, then it stands to reason that ecumenical Church history, the creeds and confessions, the Fathers, mean diddly squat in defining what «Christianity» is.

Many assume Christianity to be identified with what became the classical Christian doctrines (orthodoxy), yet it was several centuries before these were explicitly enunciated in the creeds by the ecumenical councils.

He claims that an attempt to unite evangelicals beneath one creed will fail because «evangelicalism never has been and never will be uniform in theology... [Evangelicalism] has always been ecumenical for the sake of the gospel.»

JH: I went with the Nicene Creed because of my ecumenical impulse.

Our view is not, as he suggests, that the Nicene Creed has binding authority over scriptural interpretation primarily because it represents a «truly catholic consensus» in the ancient ecumenical Church.

[28] See Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as it is Confessed in the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed (381) New Revised Version, Faith and Order Paper No. 153 (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991), where in commenting on the creedal article «One baptism for the forgiveness of sins,» it is pointed out that «A substantial challenge is made to this confession by the fact that in contrast to the one baptism enunciated in the Creed many Churches, while officially recognizing each other's baptism, still can not join together in the celebration of baptism.

«Concern for all the poor and those unjustly treated, without exception - independent of race or creed - is not a fashion of the ecumenical movement, but a fundamental tradition of the one church, an obligation that its genuine representatives always saw as of first importance».78

The theological themes of Christianity have been further defined and elucidated in the creeds and practices of the ecumenical church of the first six centuries.

In teaching about the Trinity and Christology, the creeds and decrees of the first four ecumenical synods are affirmed, along with the Athanasian creed, as agreeing with scripture, the authority for faith (chap.

This practice of holding the ancient — ecumenical — creeds in common, while confessing anew in our varied situations according to the needs of a particular moment in history, has continued to mark the Reformed family, despite a long succession of discussions about the possibility of a common Reformed confession.

The leading candidate to serve as such an «ecumenical symbol» appears to be the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

The task of finding ways for the church ecumenical to affirm the universal faith that permeates the historical expression of the Nicene Creed may prove to be more uniting than dividing.

The leading candidate to serve as an «ecumenical symbol» appears to be the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed of 381, with its understanding of the word «father.»