To creed or not to creed

Matthias Stom, โ€œThe Evangelists St Mark and St Luke,โ€ c.1635. Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. As I said in the first post in this series, none of the churches I attended as a child affirmed creeds or confessions of faith. The Bible alone was said to be our rule of faith. While I remain grateful for the spiritual …

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 …