Breaking Open the Creeds: What Can They Mean for Christians Today?

Over the past two centuries our understanding of the universe, of biology, of human nature, and of the sacred scriptures themselves has undergone a virtual revolution. How, then, can these creeds, couched in the concepts and language of a bygone age, still make sense to contemporary Christians? In this book of sixteen short chapters, the author not only gives the historical background of each statement—especially noting the development or refinement of the basic ideas that took place during...