{"id":4489,"date":"2020-02-25T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/?page_id=4489"},"modified":"2022-11-13T16:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T21:51:17","slug":"the-creeds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/?page_id=4489","title":{"rendered":"The Creeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4492 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000px-Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-compact.svg_-300x268.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000px-Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-compact.svg_-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000px-Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-compact.svg_-768x686.png 768w, https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000px-Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-compact.svg_-960x857.png 960w, https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000px-Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-compact.svg_-720x643.png 720w, https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000px-Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-compact.svg_.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The Three Ecumenical Creeds<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lutherans, along with Christians throughout the history of our Christianity, have summarized the content of our faith through the three &#8220;Ecumenical Creeds;&#8221; the Apostles&#8217; Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Apostles&#8217; Creed and the Nicene Creed are commonly used in the liturgical worship of the Lutheran Church.\u00a0 On the other hand, the Athanasian Creed, because of its length, is rarely used in formal worship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These Creeds are available on this website in the English translation used in the <em>Lutheran Book of Worship,<\/em> which was the result of the collaboration of four Lutheran church bodies, and so most representative of a breadth of Lutheran practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">By stressing the importance of the creeds, Lutherans are affirming that this expression of the Christian faith which grew from the Lutheran Reformation beginning on October 31, 1517, places this reforming movement in harmony with the prior sixteen centuries of Christianity: the &#8220;one holy catholic and apostolic faith.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Ecumenical Creeds Lutherans, along with Christians throughout the history of our Christianity, have summarized the content of our faith through the three &#8220;Ecumenical Creeds;&#8221; the Apostles&#8217; Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.\u00a0 The Apostles&#8217; Creed and the Nicene Creed are commonly used in the liturgical worship of the Lutheran Church.\u00a0 On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8090,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4489\/revisions\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}