List of Christian creeds

Christianity has through Church history produced a number of Christian creeds, confessions and statements of faith. The following lists are provided.

In many cases, individual churches will address further doctrinal questions in a set of bylaws.^[1] Smaller churches see this as a formality, while churches of a larger size build this to be a large document describing the practical functioning of the church.

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Biblical creeds

• Jesus is Lord

Primary Creeds

Creed	Date	Accepted by	Original name	Notes	Link to text
Apostles' Creed	200-900	Western Christian denominations	Lat.: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum	Product of the Roman Christians around A.D.180, who developed an early form of the Apostles' Creed, possibly to critiquee Marcion.	"Apostles' Creed".
Creed of Nicaea	325			Product of the first ecumenical council in Nicaea which tried to solve the Arian controversy.[2]
Creed of Jerusalem	350	Nearly all Christian denominations		Cyril of Jerusalem
Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed	381	Nearly all Christian denominations		Expansion and revision of the 325 Creed of Nicaea. Critiques apollinarism and a later addition, the Filioque clause, resulted in disagreements between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity.	"Nicene Creed".
Chalcedonian Creed	451	Council of Chalcedon		Nearly all Christian denominations (except Oriental Orthodoxy, the Assyrian Church of the East, and much of Restorationism)
Athanasian Creed	500	Western Christian denominations	Lat.: Quicumque vult		"Athanasian Creed".

Interdenominational Creeds

• Confessing Church 1934, the Confessing Church of Germany speaking against the Nazi "German Christians".
• Phoenix Declaration 2002, regarding LGBT
• World Evangelical Alliance Statement of Faith
• National Association of Evangelicals Statement of Faith

New Ecumenical Creeds

• The Call to Unity, Lausanne 1927
• The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, Edinburgh 1937
• Affirmation of Union, Edinburgh 1937
• Message of the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches 1948
• The Unity We Have and Seek 1952
• A Message from the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches 1954
• The Unity of the Church, St. Andrews 1960
• The Church's Unity, World Council of Churches, New Delhi 1961
• The Holy Spirit and the Catholicity of the Church, Uppsala 1968
• What Unity Requires, Nairobi 1975
• Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, Lima 1982

Creeds of Major Denominations

Adventists

• Pillars of Adventism 1848
• Adventist Baptismal Vow 1941
• 28 Fundamental Beliefs (Adventist) 1980

Anabaptist/Mennonite

• The Schleitheim Confession 1527
• The Dordrecht Confession 1632

Anglican/English

• Thirty-Nine Articles 1563
• Lambeth Articles 1595
• Affirmation of St. Louis

Arminian

Five Articles of Remonstrance 1610

Assemblies of God

• Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths

Baptist

• Thomas Helwys Confession of Faith 1611
• The Philadelphia Confession 1688
• New Hampshire Confession of Faith 1833
• The Free-will Baptist Confession 1868
• Abstract Principles 1859
• 1644 Baptist Confession of Faith 1644
• 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith 1677/1689
• Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966, Strict Baptist Assembly
• Baptist Faith and Message 1925, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)
• Baptist Faith and Message 2000 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)

Congregational

• Savoy Declaration 1658
• The Declaration of the Congregational Union of England 1833
• The Declaration of the Boston National Council 1865
• The Declaration of the Oberlin National Council 1871

Christian Church - Disciples of Christ

• Mission, Vision and Confession

Lutheran

• The Ninety-Five Theses 1517
• Augsburg Confession 1530
• Confutatio Augustana (1530 Catholic Response to Augsburg Confession)
• Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1530 Lutheran Response to Confutatio Augustana)
• Book of Concord 1580
• Saxon Visitation Articles 1592

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

• Augsburg Confession Variata 1540
• Creeds on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Website

Methodist

• Articles of Religion 1784
• The Scripture Way of Salvation 1765
• Minutes of Some Late Conversations 1744

Pentecostal

• Indian Pentecostal Church of God: Statement of Faith

Presbyterian

• Westminster Confession of Faith (PCA, OPC, EPC, RCA, etc.) 1646
• The Confession of the Waldenses 1655
• The Confession of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church 1829
• The Confession of the Free Evangelical Church of Geneva 1848
• The Confession of the Free Italian Church 1870
• The Auburn Declaration 1887
• Auburn Affirmation (PCUSA) 1924
• Book of Confessions (PCUSA)

United Church of Canada

• A New Creed 1968

United Methodist

• Confession of Faith (United Methodist)

Puritan Congregational

• Cambridge Platform 1648

Reformed

• The Sixty-seven Articles of Ulrigh Zwingli 1523
• Ten Conclusions of Berne 1528
• First Helvetic Confession 1536
• The Consensus of Geneva 1552
• First Scotch Confession 1560
• Second Helvetic Confession 1586
• Gallican Confession 1559
• Belgic Confession 1561
• Second Scotch Confession 1580
• Canons of Dordt 1618-19
• Westminster Confession of Faith 1646
• Helvetic Consensus 1675

Roman Catholic

• Decrees of the Council of Trent 1563
• The Creed of the Council of Trent 1564
• The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception 1854
• The Vatican Council-First Dogmatic Constitution of the Church of Christ 1870
• The Dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary 1950
• Vatican II Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church 1964

• Credo of the People of God 1968

United Church of Christ

• Statement of Faith of the United Church of Christ 1959

Quaker

• The Confession of the Society of Friends 1675

Creeds of Sects, Small Denomination, or Christian Groups

American Fundamentalist Evangelical

• Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy 1978
• Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics 1983
• Danvers Statement 1988

Amish

The denomination holds the New Testament as its only creed.

Holy Ghost Fathers

• Maasai Creed 1960

Latter Day Saints (Mormons)

• "Address" by Oliver Cowdery (Messenger and Advocate 1(1), October 1834, p. 2)
• Wentworth letter (1842)
• Articles of Faith (Latter Day Saints) (1880)
• 1890 Manifesto
• Second Manifesto (1904)
• 1978 Revelation on Priesthood
• The Family: A Proclamation to the World (1995)
• The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles (2000)

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

• Richmond Declaration

Salvation Army

• Articles of War of The Salvation Army

Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa

• Belhar Confession

Waldensian Evangelical Church

• Waldensian Confession 1655

Other Creeds and Confessions

• Manhattan Declaration 2009
• CBE Statement "Men, Women, and Biblical Equality" 1988

Creeds of Historical Denominations

These are no longer active denominations but played a role in history.

Huguenots

• Guanabara Confession of Faith

See also

• Church covenant

References