:( b ) The Apostles ' Creed, as the Baptismal Symbol ; and the Nicene Creed, as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith.

The Nicene Creed and the shorter Apostles ' Creed are articles, or professions of Faith said by members of the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

The Nicene Creed is predominantly recited during the mass while the Apostles ' is typically used for other occasions, healings, etc.

It is the first creed in which the equality of the three persons of the Trinity is explicitly stated, and differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan and Apostles ' Creeds in the inclusion of anathemas, or condemnations of those who disagree with the Creed ( like the original Nicene Creed ).

* Apostles ' Creed

The Apostles ' Creed was based on Christian theological understanding of the Canonical gospels, the letters of the New Testament and to a lesser extent the Old Testament.

The name of the Creed may come from the probably 5th-century tradition that, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit after Pentecost, each of the Twelve Apostles dictated part of it.

This form of the Apostles ' Creed can be found incorporated into the Eucharistic and Baptismal Liturgies in the Hymnal and in The United Methodist Book of Worship, and hence it is growing in popularity and use.

In 1988 it produced a translation of the Apostles ' Creed, distinguished among other things by its avoidance of the word " his " in relation to God.

The liturgical communities in western Christianity that derive their rituals from the Roman Missal, including those particular communities which use the Roman Missal itself ( Roman Catholics ), the Book of Common Prayer ( Anglicans / Episcopalians ), the Lutheran Book of Worship ( ELCA Lutherans ), Lutheran Service Book ( Missouri-Synod Lutherans ), use the Apostles ' Creed and interrogative forms of it in their rites of Baptism, which they consider to be the first sacrament of initiation into the Church.

An interrogative form of the Apostles ' Creed is used in the Rite of Baptism ( for both children and adults ).

Since the 2002 edition, the Apostles ' Creed is included in the Roman Missal with the indication, " Instead of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, especially during Lent and Easter time, the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles ’ Creed, may be used.

" Previously the Nicene Creed was the only profession of faith that the Missal gave for use at Mass, except in Masses for children ; but in some countries use of the Apostles ' Creed was already permitted.

The Apostles ' Creed is used in the non-Eucharistic services of Matins and Evening Prayer ( Evensong ).

The word derives from the Latin credo, which means " I believe " ( because the Latin translation of the Apostles ' Creed and the Nicene Creed both begin with this word ) so a creed may also be called a credo.

The Apostles ' Creed is widely used by most Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Anglican Communion, and Western Orthodoxy.

His ecclesiastical jurisdiction is often called the " Holy See " ( Sancta Sedes in Latin ), or the " Apostolic See " based upon the Church tradition that the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul were martyred in Rome.

Protestants, most significantly starting with Martin Luther, who wrote the 95 Theses, and Evangelical Christians not following the rites of Latin Catholic and Orthodox Christian denominations, have formally taught that the Bishop of Rome, along with the Catholic Church, greatly abused the original teachings and practices of the primitive or original Christian church as depicted in the Acts of the Apostles.

This is in Latin only ; its contents agree generally with the other, but the Council of Ephesus ( 431 ) is omitted, while the so-called " Canons of the Apostles " and those of Sardica are included, as well as 138 canons of the African Council of Carthage ( 419 ).

Most scholars agree that the English word Maundy in that name for the day is derived through Middle English and Old French mandé, from the Latin mandatum, the first word of the phrase " Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos " (" A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another ; as I have loved you "), the statement by Jesus in the Gospel of by which Jesus explained to the Apostles the significance of his action of washing their feet.

The Harrowing of Hell ( Latin Descensus Christi ad Inferos " the descent of Christ into hell ") is a doctrine in Christian theology referenced in the Apostles ' Creed and the Athanasian Creed ( Quicumque vult ) that states that Jesus Christ " descended into Hell ".

The Greek wording in the Apostles ' Creed is, (" katelthonta eis ta katôtata "), and in Latin descendit ad inferos.

The 2nd century Epistle of the Apostles ( Epistula Apostolorum ), a polemic against gnostics, lists him among the apostles purported to be writing the letter ( who include Thomas ) as Judas Zelotes and certain Old Latin translations of the Gospel of Matthew substitute " Judas the Zealot " for Thaddeus / Lebbaeus in Matthew 10: 3.

In 1433 Valla made his way to Naples, to the court of Alfonso V of Aragon, who made Valla his private Latin secretary and defended him against the attacks on account of his public statements about theology, including one in which he denied that the Apostles ' Creed was composed in succession by each of the twelve Apostles.

The Latin text contains the complete text of the Gospel of John, portions of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, a portion of an Office for the Visitation of the Sick, and the Apostles ' Creed.

This is in agreement with what can be read in the Acts of the Apostles, which call the Maltese " barbarians ", that is using a language that was neither Greek nor Latin, but Punic.

The Ormulum, produced by the Augustinian monk Orm of Lincolnshire around 1150, includes partial translations of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles from Latin into the dialect of East Midland.

A credo ( pronounced, Latin for " I Believe ") is a statement of religious belief, such as the Apostles ' Creed.

Lord King published in 1702 a History of the Apostles ' Creed ( Leipzig, 1706 ; Basel, 1750 ) which went through several editions and was also translated into Latin.

The martyr twins are invoked in the Canon of the Mass in the prayer known as the Communicantes ( from the first Latin word of the prayer ): " In communion with the whole Church, they venerate above all others the memory of the glorious ever-virgin Mary, Mother of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ, then of blessed Joseph, husband of the Virgin, your blessed Apostles and Martyrs, Peter and Paul, Andrew, James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Jude: Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Laurence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian and all your Saints: grant through their merits and prayers that in all things we may be defended by the help of your protection.

On the other hand the Latin Church, throughout the Middle Ages, recognized only fifty canons of the Apostles.

Hincmar of Reims ( died 882 ) declared that they were not written by the Apostles, and as late as the middle of the 11th century, Western theologians ( Cardinal Humbert, 1054 ) distinguished between the eighty-five Greek canons that they declared apocryphal, and the fifty Latin canons recognized as orthodox rules by antiquity.

The Epistula Apostolorum ( Latin for Letter of the Apostles ) is a work from the New Testament apocrypha.

Trunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed 14th century church of St Botolph, The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of the twelve Apostles, a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery.

* Das apostolische Symbolum ( 1892 ; English translation, The Apostles ' Creed, 1899 )

Variations of it include: " Vicar of the Prince of the Apostles " ( Vicarius Principis Apostolorum ) and " Vicar of the Apostolic See " ( Vicarius Sedis Apostolicae ).

The name Judas the Zealot ( Judas Zelotes ) is mentioned in the Epistle of the Apostles ( Epistula Apostolorum ), written in the 2nd century.

His best known work, De Actibus Apostolorum, is a verse history of the Apostles.

They demanded two churches in Milan, one in the city ( the basilica of the Apostles ), the other in the suburbs ( St Victor's ), to the Arians.

The Acts of the Apostles (, Práxeis tōn Apostólōn ; ), usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament ; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age.

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in Amphil., 123 ), Barnabas wrote the Acts of the Apostles.

They arise out of a primitive practice on the part of the bishop ( local president ), examples of which are found in the Didachē ( Teaching of the Apostles ) and in the letters of Clement of Rome and Cyprian.

What began with rules (" canons ") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament, but some elements of the Hebrew ( Old Testament ), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions.

Longenecker, " Acts of the Apostles ", in volume 9 of The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Frank E. Gaebelein, editor ( Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Corporation, 1976 – 1984 ), page 476.

In his catechism ( entitled Explanation of the Apostles ' Creed ) ( 1533 ), Erasmus took a stand against Luther's teaching by asserting the unwritten Sacred Tradition as just as valid a source of revelation as the Bible, by enumerating the Deuterocanonical books in the canon of the Bible and by acknowledging seven sacraments.

He wrote biblical commentaries on the Diatessaron ( the single gospel harmony of the early Syriac church ), on Genesis and Exodus, and on the Acts of the Apostles and Pauline Epistles.

According to Acts of the Apostles, Paul founded the church in Corinth ( Acts 18: 1 – 17 ), then spent approximately three years in Ephesus ( Acts 19: 8, 19: 10, 20: 31 ).

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

In the lists of the Apostles John has the second place ( Acts 1: 13 ), the third (), and the fourth (; ), yet always after James with the exception of a few passages (; 9: 28 in the Greek text ; Acts 1: 13 ).

Mt 28: 9 ), They are also the first to be called to announce this truth to the Apostles ( cf.

), the Acts of the Apostles, the General Epistles, and the Book of Revelation.

Matthias ( Hebrew transliteration Mattityahu ) ( d. 80 ), according to the Acts of the Apostles, was the apostle chosen by the remaining eleven apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following Judas ' betrayal of Jesus and suicide.