Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.

Ibn Yasin certainly had the ardor of a puritan zealot, his creed was mainly characterized by a rigid formalism and a strict adherence to the dictates of the Qur ' an, and the Orthodox tradition.

Voss, and it has since been widely accepted by modern scholars that the creed was not authored by Athanasius.

# The creed originally was most likely written in Latin, while Athanasius composed in Greek.

In the late 19th century, there was a great deal of speculation about who might have authored the creed, with suggestions including Ambrose of Milan, Venantius Fortunatus, and Hilary of Poitiers, among others.

This particular creed was developed between the 2nd and 9th centuries.

The creed was apparently used as a summary of Christian doctrine for baptismal candidates in the churches of Rome.

The Nicene Creed, largely a response to Arianism, was formulated at the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople in 325 and 381 respectively and ratified as the universal creed of Christendom by the First Council of Ephesus in 431.

because it does not explicitly make use of religious titles for Jesus, such as " Christ " and Domin-(" Lord "), which are used in the BC / AD notation, nor does it give implicit expression to the Christian creed that Jesus was the Christ.

The Chalcedonian creed was written amid controversy between the western and eastern churches over the meaning of the Incarnation ( see Christology ), the ecclesiastical influence of the emperor, and the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome.

The council fathers, however, felt that no new creed was necessary, and that the doctrine had been laid out clearly in Leo's Tome.

1 Corinthians 15, 3-7 includes an early creed about Jesus ' death and resurrection which was probably received by Paul.

Also, the introduction to the creed was formulated as follows:

Because of this he was called upon to present the creed of his own church to the 318 attendees.

A Provisional Committee was formed that included people with a wide range of political views, and the Volunteers ' ranks were open to " all able-bodied Irishmen without distinction of creed, politics or social group.

With the creation of the creed, a precedent was established for subsequent local and regional councils of Bishops ( Synods ) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy — the intent being to define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christendom.

He remained to the end a staunch Catholic, though all Chemnitz had gone over to the Lutheran creed, and it is said that his life was ended by a fit of apoplexy brought on by a heated discussion with a Protestant divine.

Albrecht Alt and Martin Noth hold that, " The figure of Isaac was enhanced when the theme of promise, previously bound to the cults of the ' God the Fathers ' was incorporated into the Israelite creed during the southern-Palestinian stage of the growth of the Pentateuch tradition.

By then, the work consisted of four books of eighty chapters, and each book was named after statements from the creed: Book 1 on God the Creator, Book 2 on the Redeemer in Christ, Book 3 on receiving the Grace of Christ through the Holy Spirit, and Book 4 on the Society of Christ or the Church.

The vicar's creed was that of Socinianism ( or Unitarianism as it is called today ).

" Gandhi's private secretary also had acknowledged that " The question of the consistency between his creed of ' Ahimsa ' ( non-violence ) and his recruiting campaign was raised not only then but has been discussed ever since.

For that reason a creed was called in Greek a σύμβολον ( Eng.

The Coptic Church has the tradition that the original creed was authored by Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria.

Tokugawa-era rōnin scholar and strategist Yamaga Sokō ( 1622 – 1685 ) wrote extensively on matters relating to bushidō, bukyō ( a " warrior's creed "), and a more general shido, a " way of gentlemen " intended for application to all stations of society.

The Nicene Creed incorporated for the first time the clause was crucified under Pontius Pilate ( which had already been long established in the Old Roman Symbol, an ancient form of the Apostles ' Creed dating as far back as the 2nd century AD ) in a creed that was intended to be authoritative for all Christians in the Roman Empire.

In whatever sense the need and its supply are a proof of design in the physical creation, in the same do gaps, if the word may be used, which occur in the structure of the original creed of the Church, make it probable that those developments, which grow out of the truths which lie around them, were intended to complete it.

Furthermore, we should not make them our creed, and we should not designate ourselves by a name, such as Lutheran, Baptist, or Presbyterian, that is according to a particular teaching or practice.

Eastern Orthodox theologians state this change of the wording of the churches ' original creed, was done to address various teachings outside of the church in specific the Macedonius I of Constantinople teaching which the council claimed was a distortion of the church's teaching on the Holy Spirit.

" Harrison writes that the Maharishi's teaching does not require conversion and that Transcendental Meditation does not have a religious creed.

In the 18th century, the Marquis of Pombal, Minister of the kingdom, made radical reforms in the University, especially regarding the teaching of sciences, in accordance to his Enlightenment and anticlerical creed.

The Council of Nicaea did not end the controversy, as many bishops of the Eastern provinces disputed the homoousios, the central term of the Nicene creed, as it had been used by Paul of Samosata, who had advocated a monarchianist Christology.

The debates among these groups resulted in numerous synods, among them the Council of Sardica in 343, the Council of Sirmium in 358 and the double Council of Rimini and Seleucia in 359, and no fewer than fourteen further creed formulas between 340 and 360, leading the pagan observer Ammianus Marcellinus to comment sarcastically: " The highways were covered with galloping bishops.

They were also hesitant to write a new creed as the Council of Ephesus had forbidden the composition or use of any new creed.

The Councils of Toledo debated creed and liturgy in orthodox Catholicism, and the Council of Lerida in 546 constrained the clergy and extended the power of law over them under the blessings of Rome.

For one thing, the radicals on all sides felt themselves constantly repelled by the creed adopted by the Council of Chalcedon to defend the biblical doctrine of the nature of Christ and bridge the gap between the dogmatic parties.

On the basis of evidence both internal and external to the text, it has been argued that this creed originated not as an editing by the First Council of Constantinople of the original Nicene Creed, but as an independent creed ( probably an older baptismal creed ) modified to make it more like the Nicene Creed of 325 and attributed to the Council of 381 only later.

The third Ecumenical Council ( Council of Ephesus of 431 ) reaffirmed the original 325 version of the Nicene Creed and declared that " it is unlawful for any man to bring forward, or to write, or to compose a different ( – more accurately translated as used by the Council to mean “ different ,” “ contradictory ,” and not “ another ”) Faith as a rival to that established by the holy Fathers assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa " ( i. e. the 325 creed ) This statement has been interpreted as a prohibition against changing this creed or composing others, but not all accept this interpretation.

This question is connected with the controversy whether a creed proclaimed by an Ecumenical Council is definitive or whether additions can be made to it.

* 381: First Council of Constantinople reaffirms the Christian doctrine of the Trinity by adding to the creed of Nicaea.

* First Council of Constantinople ( some authorities date this council to 383 ): Theodosius I calls a general council to affirm and extend the Nicene creed, and denounce Arianism and Apollinarism.

After Ulrich's death Brenz was asked to prepare the confessio Wirtembergica for the Council of Trent, and with three other Wittenberg theologians and Johann Marbach of Strasbourg, he went to Trent, March 1552, to defend his creed ( see Jakob Beurlin ).

Its profession, made under the name of Duke Christopher of Württemberg, and entitled the " Württemberg Confession ," was sent to the Council of Trent, in 1552, but had not been formally accepted as the Ubiquitarian creed until the synod at Stuttgart.