Know the Creeds and Councils

Know the Creeds and Councils is an accessible and relevant overview of Christianity’s most significant statements of faith. In every generation, the Christian church must interpret and restate its bedrock beliefs, answering the challenges and concerns of the day. This accessible overview walks readers through centuries of creeds, councils, catechisms, and confessions–not with a dry focus on dates and places, but with an emphasis on the living tradition of Christian belief and why it matters for our lives today.

This book started as a series of blog posts, which are listed here:

• Apostles’ Creed
• Council of Nicaea and Nicene Creed
• Council of Ephesus
• Council of Chalcedon
• Athanasian Creed
• Councils of Constantinople
• Councils of Carthage and Orange
• Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses
• Council of Trent
• Heidelberg Catechism
• Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion
• Westminster Confession of Faith
• Second Vatican Council
• Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
• Lausanne Covenant

Know the Heretics is the companion book to Know the Creeds and Councils.