Church Creeds and Confessions

Ancient Era

• The Apostles Creed

• Notes: on the Apostles Creed

• The Athanasian Creed (c 500 AD)

• Canon of Council of Orange (529 AD)

• Creeds and Statements from the period after 600 AD

• Creeds from the Bible

• Nicene Creed: As approved by the Nicaean council (325 AD)

• Nicene Creed: From The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

• Nicene Creed: the Creed of Constantinople (381 AD)

• Notes on the Nicene Creed

• Notes on the Filioque Clause Controversy

• The Church in the Nicene Creed

• The Definition of Chalcedon (451 AD)

Reformation Era

• Documents of the Protestant Reformation

• Luther's 95 Theses

• The Canons and Decrees of Trent

• The Canons of Dort (1618)

• The Scottish Confession of Faith

• The Second Helvetic Confession (1566)

• The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (1571)

• The Westminster Confession of Faith

• The Westminster Larger Catechism

• The Westminster Shorter Catechism

Modern Era

• Baptist Faith and Message (1963)

• Catechism of the Catholic Church

• Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy

• Doctrinal Position of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod (1932)

• Keach's Catechism of 1677

• Second London Confession of 1677 (approv. 1689)

• Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Abstract of Principles & More

• Southern Baptist Abstract of Principles (1858)

• Spurgeon's Catechism of 1855

• The Cambridge Declaration of 1996

• The Decrees of the 1st Vatican Council (1880)

• The Documents of Vatican II

• The Montreal Declaration of Anglican Essentials (1994)

• The New Hampshire Baptist Confession of 1833