The Apostles’ Creed
Origin, History and some early Commentaries
by L.H. Westra
Hardback (Out of print)
(October 2002)
ISBN: 9782503513959
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This work will offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origin and development of the Apostles’ Creed (symbolum apostolorum), the first to appear since Kelly’s Early Christian Creeds (1950). Westra offers a concise Forschungsgeschichte, gathers the fruits of more recent literature, and critically discusses the work of Markschies, Kinzig, and Vinzent (Tauffragen und Bekenntnis), who presented a completely novel theory on the origin of the Apostles’ Creed in 1999. A new feature in Westra’s work is its discussion of the phenomenon of credal change – a long-felt need, as the different variants. How did these variants originate, and how did they develop over the course of the centuries in the different parts of th Western Church? Consequently, Westra presents an elaborate overview of these different variants. He discusses the testimony of wellknown authors such as Ambrose, Augustine, and Rufinus anew, and also draws attention to a number of hitherto neglected or even unknown sources, thus replacing (at least as far as the Apostles’ Creed is concerned) Hahn’s Bibliothek der Symbole.
This work will offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origin and development of the Apostles’ Creed (symbolum apostolorum), the first to appear since Kelly’s Early Christian Creeds (1950). Westra offers a concise Forschungsgeschichte, gathers the fruits of more recent literature, and critically discusses the work of Markschies, Kinzig, and Vinzent (Tauffragen und Bekenntnis), who presented a completely novel theory on the origin of the Apostles’ Creed in 1999. A new feature in Westra’s work is its discussion of the phenomenon of credal change – a long-felt need, as the different variants. How did these variants originate, and how did they develop over the course of the centuries in the different parts of th Western Church? Consequently, Westra presents an elaborate overview of these different variants. He discusses the testimony of wellknown authors such as Ambrose, Augustine, and Rufinus anew, and also draws attention to a number of hitherto neglected or even unknown sources, thus replacing (at least as far as the Apostles’ Creed is concerned) Hahn’s Bibliothek der Symbole.
- By (author) LH Westra
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