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The earliest known creed in Christianity, "Jesus is Lord", originated in the writings of Paul the Apostle. [2] One of the most significant and widely used Christian creeds is the Nicene Creed, first formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea [3] to affirm the deity of Christ and revised at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381 to affirm the trinity as a whole. [4]
Credo. In Christian liturgy, the credo (Latin: [ˈkɾeːdoː]; Latin for "I believe") is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed – or its shorter version, the Apostles' Creed – in the Mass, either as a prayer, a spoken text, or sung as Gregorian chant or other musical settings of the Mass.
The Nicene Creed (/ ˈnaɪsiːn /; Koinē Greek: Σύμβολον τῆς Νικαίας, romanized: Sýmvolon tis Nikéas), also called the Creed of Constantinople, [1] is the defining statement of belief of mainstream Christianity [2][3] and in those Christian denominations that adhere to it. The original Nicene Creed was first adopted at the ...
e. (Arabic: , , , pl. , , ) is an Islamic term of Arabic origin that literally means "creed". [1] It is also called or . [2][3] Aqidah goes beyond concise statements of faith and may not be part of an ordinary Muslim's religious instruction. [4]
The Eastern Orthodox Church accepts the Nicene Creed, [8] [9] but does not use the Apostles' Creed or the Athanasian Creed. A creed by definition is a summary or statement of what one believes. It originates from the Latin credo meaning "I believe". [10] The purpose of a creed is to act as a yardstick of correct belief. [11]
t. e. The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or "symbol of faith". The creed most likely originated in 5th-century Gaul as a development of the Old Roman Symbol: the old Latin creed of the 4th century.
Four Marks of the Church. The Four Marks of the Church, also known as the Attributes of the Church, [1] describes four distinctive adjectives of traditional Christian ecclesiology as expressed in the Nicene Creed completed at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381: " [We believe] in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." [2]
The Ukrainian Catholic Church, a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church professes the Nicene Creed in the following way: I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father.