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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations for Creeds and Confessions | |
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| Editions, Collections, and Reference Works | |
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| Definition of Creed and Confession | |
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| Continuity and Change in Creeds and Confessions | |
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| Continuity versus Change in the Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils | |
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| Patristic Thought on Continuity and Change | |
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| The Doctrine of the Trinity as Example of Continuity and of Change | |
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| The Person of Christ as Exemplar of Continuity and of Change | |
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| Change and the "Passing" of Creeds | |
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| The Creedal and Confessional Imperative | |
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| Believing and Confessing | |
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| Faith Defined | |
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| Confessing the Faith | |
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| The Content of the Confession | |
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| Confession of the Faith as Doctrine | |
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| The Teaching of the Church | |
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| "The Sum of Doctrine" | |
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| "Doctrines" and Doctrine | |
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| Doctrine as Dogma | |
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| Faith and Order | |
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| Apostolic Creed and Apostolic Ministry | |
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| Doctrines of Church Order East and West | |
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| Polity as Doctrine in the Reformed Confessions | |
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| Faith and Order in the Ecumenical Confessional Dialogue | |
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| The Genesis of Creeds and Confessions | |
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| Scripture, Tradition, and Creed | |
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| Creeds in Scripture | |
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| Scripture in the Creeds and Confessions | |
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| The Confessions and the Problem of the Canon | |
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| Confessional Rules of Biblical Hermeneutics | |
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| The Rule of Prayer and the Rule of Faith | |
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| The Lord's Prayer in the Confessions | |
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| Lex orandi lex credendi | |
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| The Place of Creed in Liturgy | |
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| Councils and Confessions on Worship | |
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| Formulas of Concord-And of Discord | |
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| Creedal Anathema and Polemics | |
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| Direct and Indirect Censures | |
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| Creeds and Confessions as Instruments of Concord | |
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| The Holy Spirit of Concord and the Sacrament of Concord: Two Ironic Case Histories | |
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| The Formation of Confessions and the Politics of Religion | |
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| Confessing as a Political Act | |
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| Civil Law on Adherence to Creeds | |
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| Confessions and the Formation of Politics | |
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| The Politics of Confessional Diversity | |
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| The Authority of Creeds and Confessions | |
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| Creedal Dogma as Church Law | |
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| Creedal Formulation as Enactment | |
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| Reception of Creeds, Councils, and Confessions as Ratification | |
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| The Enforcement of Orthodoxy | |
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| Confessional Subscription as Legal Compliance | |
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| Rules of Confessional Hermeneutics | |
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| Deeds, Not Creeds? | |
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| Doctrines of Christian Discipline in the Reformation Confessions | |
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| Heresy and/or Schism | |
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| Orthodoxy and Asceticism | |
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| Christian Love the Presupposition for Christian Confession | |
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| A Modern Secular Parallel | |
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| Transmission of Creeds and Confessions to Other Cultures | |
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| Cultus, Code, and Creed Across Cultural Boundaries | |
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| The Fate of Creeds in Missions and Migrations | |
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| Patterns of Creedal Indigenization | |
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| The Paradigm: Shema to Homoousios | |
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| The Orthodoxy of the Body of the Faithful | |
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| What Did the Laity Believe, Teach, and Confess? | |
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| Popular Religion, the Rule of Prayer, and Tradition | |
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| Conformity by the People of the Church to Civil and Creedal Law | |
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| Code, Creed, and Folk Culture | |
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| The History of Creeds and Confessions | |
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| Rules of Faith in the Early Church | |
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| The Primal Creed | |
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| The Kerygma and Baptismal Symbols | |
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| The Deposit of the Faith, Evangelism, and Apologetics | |
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| Didache, Catechesis, and Formulas of Exorcism | |
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| Prescribed Forms of Praying and of Confessing | |
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| Affirmations of Faith in Eastern Orthodoxy | |
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| The Ambivalence of the Orthodox Church Toward "Symbolical Books" | |
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| The Liturgy as the Church's Preeminent Confession of the Faith | |
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| The Sacred Tradition of the Seven Ecumenical Councils | |
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| The Eastern Confessions as Equal and Opposite Reactions | |
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| Professions of Faith in the Medieval West | |
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| The Western Reception of the Catholic Creedal and Conciliar Tradition | |
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| The Confessionalization of Western Sacramental Doctrine | |
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| Scholastic Theology as Reasoning on the Basis of the Creed | |
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| The Rise of Ecclesiological Confessions in the Later Middle Ages | |
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| Confessions of Faith in the Reformation Era | |
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| The Proliferation of Confessions in the Age of the Reformation | |
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| Lutheran, Reformed, Roman Catholic, and Radical "Confessionalisms" | |
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| Catholic Substance and Protestant Principle in Reformation Confessions | |
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| From Reformation Confessions to Confessional Scholasticism | |
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| Statements of Faith in Modern Christianity | |
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| The Discomfort with Creed Caused by the Consciousness of Modernity | |
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| Old and New Contexts of Christian Confessing | |
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| The Flowering of Creedal and Confessional Scholarship in the Modern Era | |
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| In Light of Their History, Do Creeds Have a Future as Well as a Past? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Indexes to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition | |
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| A Comparative Creedal Syndogmaticon, with Alphabetical Index | |
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| Ecclesiastical Index: Churches, Heresies, Creeds, Confessions, Councils | |
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| Indexes to Credo | |
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| References to Scripture | |
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| References to Creeds and Confessions | |
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| Names of Persons | |