TY - BOOK AU - Hahn,Scott TI - The creed: professing the faith through the ages SN - 9781941447772 AV - BT 990 .H15 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Steubenville, Ohio PB - Emmaus Road Publishing KW - Catholic Church KW - Creeds KW - History and criticism KW - Nicene Creed N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191); The creed makes us -- The need for creed: the Old Testament prehistory of the New Testament profession -- A new covenant and a new confession -- The thundering kanon -- From freedom to formula -- The crown of the Council -- The setting of the creed -- Points of light -- Father forever -- The creator of all -- Son worship -- That's the spirit -- The Church and the future -- Amen -- Important later creeds -- A Biblical creed N2 - "Why were the early Christians willing to die to protect a single iota of the creed? Why have the Judeans, Romans, and Persians--among others--seen the Christian creed as a threat to the established social order? In The Creed: Professing the Faith Through the Ages, bestselling author Dr. Scott Hahn recovers and conveys the creed's revolutionary character. Tracing the development of the first formulations of faith in the early Church through later ecumenical councils, The Creed tells the story of how the very profession of our belief in Christ fashions us for heavenly life as we live out our earthly days." -- Cover, p. [4] ER -