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. 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.

Biblical Creeds

Ecumenical and Historic Christian Creeds

Creed Date Accepted by Original name Notes Link to text
Apostles' Creed 120-250 Western Church 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 critique Marcion. "Apostles' Creed".
Creed of Nicaea 325 Ecumenical Church Product of the first ecumenical council in Nicaea which tried to solve the Arian controversy.[2]
Nicene Creed (Nicaea-Constantinopolitan Creed) 381 Ecumenical Church Expansion and revision of the 325 Creed of Nicaea (includes new section on Holy Spirit). It is the most widely accepted Christian creed.

It critiques apollinarism and a later addition, the Filioque clause, resulted in disagreement 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 The origin of this creed is uncertain, but it is widely used in various Christian denominations. "Athanasian Creed".

Local and Regional Creeds of the Early Church

Interdenominational Creeds

Modern Ecumenical Creeds

Creeds of Major Denominations

Adventists

Anabaptist/Mennonite

Anglican/English

Arminian

Five Articles of Remonstrance (1610)

Assemblies of God

Baptist

Christian Church - Disciples of Christ

Congregational

Eastern Orthodox

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Lutheran

Methodist

Pentecostal/Assemblies of God

Presbyterian

Puritan Congregational

Quaker

Reformed

Roman Catholic

United Church of Canada

United Church of Christ

United Methodist

Creeds of Sects or Small Denominations or Christian Groups

American Fundamentalist Evangelical

Amish

The denomination holds the New Testament as its only creed.

Holy Ghost Fathers

Huguenots

Latter Day Saints (Mormons)

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Salvation Army

Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa

Waldensian Evangelical Church

See also

References

  1. Pelikan, Jaroslav (2003). Credo. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 133. ISBN 0300109741.
  2. The Council of Nicaea: Purposes and Themes
  3. ELCA Constitution, Chapter 2. http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Constitutions_of_the_ELCA_April_2015.pdf
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