Calvin’s View of the Athanasian and Nicene Creeds
Stephen M. Reynolds, „Calvin’s View of the Athanasian and Nicene Creeds,” Westminster Theological Journal 23.1 (Nov. 1960): 33-37.
What was Calvin’s attitude toward the Athanasian Creed in 1537? Williston Walker quotes him as saying, “‘We swear in the faith of the one God, not of Athanasius, whose creed no true church would ever have approved’“.1 Harry Emerson Fosdick gives the same quotation citing Walker as his source.2 Yet in 1559 the Gallican Confession, of which Calvin prepared the first draft, was published,3 and… Czytaj więcej