{"product_id":"2940012274939","title":"The Apostles\u0026#x2019; Creed","description":"The first to place the three creeds, the Apostolic, the\u003cbr\u003e   Nicene-Constantinopolitan, and the Athanasian, side by side, as a full\u003cbr\u003e   expression of the ecumenical confessions in the Church (with the\u003cbr\u003e   addition of the Te Deum Laudamus) was probably Luther. Certain it is\u003cbr\u003e   that it was only after his time, that is, after the second half of the\u003cbr\u003e   sixteenth century, that Protestants first spoke definitely of the three\u003cbr\u003e   ancient symbols. Yet it is also certain on the other hand that in the\u003cbr\u003e   West these very three symbols had been in use in the churches, and had\u003cbr\u003e   enjoyed great consideration, at least as much as five centuries\u003cbr\u003e   earlier. [2] In the strict sense of the word, however, the predicate\u003cbr\u003e   \"ecumenical\" applies only to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, for\u003cbr\u003e   in the Eastern Church neither the Apostolic nor the Athanasian\u003cbr\u003e   confession of faith has at any time received official recognition. [3]\u003cbr\u003e   Indeed, the Eastern Church has at no time traced any creed to an\u003cbr\u003e   Apostolic origin, or designated any as Apostolic in the strict sense of\u003cbr\u003e   the word. [4] In the West, on the other hand, the three symbols form\u003cbr\u003e   part of the confessional writings of the main Church, and the shortest\u003cbr\u003e   of them (Symbolum minus) bears the very name \"Apostolicum.\" But we also\u003cbr\u003e   find the name \"Apostolic\" here and there established and in use in the\u003cbr\u003e   West as a designation of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed; [5] nor\u003cbr\u003e   is this only among Greeks who had become latinised. The three chief\u003cbr\u003e   churches of the West possess the Symbolum Apostolicum in a form which\u003cbr\u003e   agrees in all essential points (\"Textus Receptus\"). We shall therefore\u003cbr\u003e   have to begin by treating of the origin of the creed in this form.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069156409584,"sku":"2940012274939","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012274939_p0.jpg?v=1763554472","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012274939","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}