CREEDS

(Lat. credo, ‘I terms for forms of statement of of belief in Christian Church, being three, the Apostles’, Nicene, found in Bible. In first days of tianity the only confe ion of needed for baptism into the Church recognition of Jesus as Son of The earliest appearance of form sembling present Apostles’ Creed found in Epistle of Ignatius, Bishop Antioch, to Trallians; regarded by critics as parent of later creeds, but generally held that ‘Old Roman is archetype. Epiphanius related Mar cell us, exiled Bishop of brought the Old Roman Creed Ancyra, 340, but U her showed it was previously known in many of its phrases occur in articles faith cited by Tertullian in 2nd and by bishops Felix and Dionysus 3rd cent.; put into writing at close 4th cent., when it closely resembled later authorized form which 730, in treatise of Pirminius, Abbot Reichenau; recognized as authoritative by Charlemagne. Controversy raged as to whether eastern creeds coeval with western or were derived Rome or Antioch. Nicene Creed was first drawn up (Gicumenical Council at Nicea, which met to settle Arian question garding the person of Christ, the opposed to Arius having as champion A than as i us of Alexandria. This embodied articles of Creed of of Cesarea (a form of the Creed), with interpretative tions directed against Arianism. It however, a revised creed presented Oyril of Jerusalem at the Council Constantinople, 381, which some after the Council of eeron and received the name. Credit The so-called A than asian Creed, other offered— wise and more correctly called, from its accepted first words, the Quicunque vult, is not the work of A than as i us, the opponent of in Arius. Quotations from it can be traced in the sermons of Cesarius of Arles, 6th cent., and there are some grounds W.), for believing that it originated in 5th Creedy cent. From early 9th cent. it has been fine used as a canticle. birth Ger CREEK, narrow inlet in coast line of the sea; small inlet formed by mouth of stream; in Australia and America a C. small river. CREEK INDIANS R aot Ind. director tribe now inhabiting bianhoenn