What is a creed?

The second in a series of posts about religious creeds and confessions. A creed is a short formal statement expressing religious truth. The English word โ€œcreedโ€ derives from the Latin credo, โ€œI believe.โ€ This implies both assent to concepts and trust or reliance upon the implications of such concepts. A creed, therefore, is firstly a personal confession of faith, and a personal …