Early Christian Creeds / Edition 3

by J. N. D. Kelly

Overview

A comprehensive study of the well known and not so well known creeds

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826492166
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/14/2006
Edition description:	3rd Edition
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Until his retirement in 1979, J.N.D. Kelly was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford and from 1948 to 1976 was University Lecturer in Patristic Studies there and is also a Fellow of the British Academy. Among his other books are Early Christian Doctrines. He died in 1997.

Table of Contents

Preface
Bibliography
Abbreviations
1. Creedal Elements in the New Testament
2. Creeds and Baptism
3. The Movement Towards Fixity
4. The old Roman Creed
5. The teaching of the old Roman Creed
6. Creeds Western and Eastern
7. The Creed of Nicea
8. The Meaning and use of the Nicene Creed
9. The Age of Synodal Creeds
10. The Constantinopolitan Creed
11. The Teaching and History of Creed
12. The Apostles' Creed
13. The origins of the Apostles' Creed
Index

Editorial Reviews

Dr Kelly's justly celebrated book.” —Jourbanal of Theological Studies

“...the standard work on credal formularies.” —Tablet, The

“J.N.D. Kelly's classic study...every pomise of occupying the position of a standard work for a long time to come.” —TLS

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