The Need for Creeds Today: Confessional Faith in a Faithless Age

by J. V. Fesko

Overview

2020 For the Church Book Award

This brief, accessible invitation to the historic creeds and confessions makes a biblical and historical case for their necessity and shows why they are essential for Christian faith and practice today. J. V. Fesko, a leading Reformed theologian with a broad readership in the academy and the church, demonstrates that creeds are not just any human documents but biblically commended resources for the well-being of the church, as long as they remain subordinate to biblical authority. He also explains how the current skepticism and even hostility toward creeds and confessions came about.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493427017
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/03/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

J. V. Fesko (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is the Harriet Barbour Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. A minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, he served in church planting and pastoral ministry for more than 10 years and is the author of numerous books, including Reforming Apologetics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xiii

1 Biblical Arguments for Confessions 1

2 Reformed Confessions (1500-1700) 19

3 Causes of Deconfessionalization 43

4 Benefits of Confessions 77

5 Confessions and Piety 97

Conclusion 117

For Further Reading 119

Scripture Index 123

Subject Index 125