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Handouts for this talk: God the Son — Jesus Christ part 2 — Rev. The most notable difference is the additional section "And [we believe] in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver-of-Life, who proceedeth from the Father, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spake by the prophets. And [we believe] in one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, [and] we look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Since the end of the 19th century, [23] scholars have questioned the traditional explanation of the origin of this creed, which has been passed down in the name of the council, whose official acts have been lost over time. A local council of Constantinople in and the third ecumenical council Ephesus, made no mention of it, [24] with the latter affirming the creed of Nicaea as a valid statement of the faith and using it to denounce Nestorianism.
Though some scholarship claims that hints of the later creed's existence are discernible in some writings, [25] no extant document gives its text or makes explicit mention of it earlier than the fourth ecumenical council at Chalcedon in On the basis of evidence both internal and external to the text, it has been argued that this creed originated not as an editing of the original Creed proposed at Nicaea in , but as an independent creed probably an older baptismal creed modified to make it more like the Nicene Creed.
In one respect, the Eastern Orthodox Church 's received text [30] of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed differs from the earliest text, which is included in the acts of the Council of Chalcedon of The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the singular forms of verbs such as "I believe", in place of the plural form "we believe" used by the council.
The following table, which indicates by [square brackets] the portions of the text that were omitted or moved in , and uses italics to indicate what phrases, absent in the text, were added in , juxtaposes the earlier AD and later AD forms of this Creed in the English translation given in Philip Schaff 's compilation The Creeds of Christendom The differences between the actual wordings in Greek adopted in [34] and in [35] can be presented in a similar way, as follows:.
In the late 6th century, some Latin-speaking churches added the words "and from the Son" Filioque to the description of the procession of the Holy Spirit, in what many Eastern Orthodox Christians have at a later stage argued is a violation of Canon VII of the Third Ecumenical Council, since the words were not included in the text by either the Council of Nicaea or that of Constantinople.
Gregory of Nazianzus and the one adopted by the Council of Constantinople [31] [38] [39] —the word Filioque is not heretical when associated with the Latin verb procedo and the related word processio. In time, the Latin version of the Creed came to be interpreted in the West in the light of the Western concept of processio , which required the affirmation of the Filioque to avoid the heresy of Arianism. The view that the Nicene Creed can serve as a touchstone of true Christian faith is reflected in the name "symbol of faith", which was given to it in Greek and Latin, when in those languages the word "symbol" meant a "token for identification by comparison with a counterpart ", [42] and which continues in use even in languages in which "symbol" no longer has that meaning.
In the Roman Rite Mass , the Latin text of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, with "Deum de Deo" God from God and " Filioque " and from the Son , phrases absent in the original text, was previously the only form used for the "profession of faith". While in certain places where the Byzantine Rite is used, the choir or congregation sings the Creed at the Divine Liturgy , in many places the Creed is typically recited by the cantor, who in this capacity represents the whole congregation although many, and sometimes all, members of the congregation may join in rhythmic recitation.
Where the latter is the practice, it is customary to invite, as a token of honor, any prominent lay member of the congregation who happens to be present, e.
This practice stems from the tradition that the prerogative to recite the Creed belonged to the Emperor , speaking for his populace. Some evangelical and other Christians consider the Nicene Creed helpful and to a certain extent authoritative, but not infallibly so in view of their belief that only Scripture is truly authoritative. There are several designations for the two forms of the Nicene creed, some with overlapping meanings:.
In musical settings, particularly when sung in Latin , this Creed is usually referred to by its first word, Credo.
This section is not meant to collect the texts of all liturgical versions of the Nicene Creed, and provides only three, the Greek, the Latin, and the Armenian, of special interest. Others are mentioned separately, but without the texts. All ancient liturgical versions, even the Greek, differ at least to some small extent from the text adopted by the First Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople.
The Creed was originally written in Greek , owing to the location of the two councils. The Latin text, as well as using the singular, has two additions: The Armenian text has many more additions, and is included as showing how that ancient church has chosen to recite the Creed with these numerous elaborations of its contents. An English translation of the Armenian text is added; English translations of the Greek and Latin liturgical texts are given at English versions of the Nicene Creed in current use.
On the latter see The Filioque Controversy above. We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, the maker of heaven and earth, of things visible and invisible. God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten and not made; of the very same nature of the Father, by Whom all things came into being, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Who for us humanity and for our salvation came down from heaven, was incarnate, was made human, was born perfectly of the holy virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. He suffered, was crucified, was buried, rose again on the third day, ascended into heaven with the same body, [and] sat at the right hand of the Father.
He is to come with the same body and with the glory of the Father, to judge the living and the dead; of His kingdom there is no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, in the uncreated and the perfect; Who spoke through the Law, prophets, and Gospels; Who came down upon the Jordan, preached through the apostles, and lived in the saints. We believe also in only One, Universal, Apostolic, and [Holy] Church; in one baptism in repentance, for the remission, and forgiveness of sins; and in the resurrection of the dead, in the everlasting judgement of souls and bodies, and the Kingdom of Heaven and in the everlasting life.
The version in the Church Slavonic language , used by several Eastern Orthodox Churches is practically identical with the Greek liturgical version.
Although the Union of Brest excluded addition of the Filioque , this was sometimes added by Ruthenian Catholics , [61] whose older liturgical books also show the phrase in brackets, and by Ukrainian Catholics. Writing in , the Ruthenian Scholar Fr.