Tag: Apostles’ Creed

  • Tell me about the creeds? (part 1)

    Tell me about the creeds? (part 1)

    I notice that we use both the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed. Why do we have more than one creed? Where do they come from? As Lutherans we actually have three creeds. Currently, we rotate between the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed. The third creed is the Athanasian Creed, which is found in the…

  • What do we mean by the word ‘catholic’ in the creed?

    What do we mean by the word ‘catholic’ in the creed?

    The word ‘catholic’ comes from the Greek phrase ‘kata holos’, meaning “according to the whole.” In about 110 AD, Ignatius wrote, “Where Christ is, there is the catholic Church.” In 381, the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed used it to describe the church as “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.” In the fifth century, Vincent of Lérins defined catholic…