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Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Nicene Creed in Greek; Athanasius, De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition Archived 13 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine "Line-by-Line Roman Catholic Explanation of the Nicene Creed". Archived from the original on 18 February 2006. "Nicene Creed in languages of the world".
The Nicene Creed, composed in part and adopted at the First Council of Nicaea (325) and revised with additions by the First Council of Constantinople (381), is a creed that summarizes the orthodox faith of the Christian Church and is used in the liturgy of most Christian Churches. This article endeavors to give the text and context of English ...
The Homoousians (from the Koine Greek word translated as "of same substance" which was condemned at the Council of Antioch in 264–268) were supported by Constantine and Hosius and were able to advance the use of the term, thus the creed was accepted by the council.
In the early centuries of Christian history, the majority of Christians who followed doctrines represented in Nicene Creed were bound by one common and undivided Catholicity that united the Latin-speaking Christians of the west and the Greek-speaking Christians of the east. In those days, the terms "eastern Catholic" and "western Catholic" had ...
The Edict of Thessalonica (Greek: Έδικτο της Θεσσαλονίκης), issued on 27 February AD 380 by Theodosius I, made Nicene Christianity [note 1] the state church of the Roman Empire. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It condemned other Christian creeds such as Arianism as heresies of "foolish madmen," and authorized their punishment .
The affirmation that Jesus Christ is "consubstantial with the Father" appears in the Nicene Creed. [4] Greek was the language in which the Nicene Creed was originally enunciated. The word used was Greek : ὁμοούσιος [ 5 ] ( homoousios ) and means "of the same substance."
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.
Filioque, Latin for "and (from) the Son", was added in Western Christianity to the Latin text of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, which also varies from the original Greek text in having the additional phrase Deum de Deo (God from God) [50] [51] and in using the singular "I believe" (Latin: Credo, Ancient Greek: Πιστεύω) instead of ...