Clues to the Creed: A Brief Outline of The Faith
D Willis
The Nicene Creed’s powerful summary of Christian faith has stood the test of time, embodying core truths and distinguishing essential Christian teachings from those of lesser importance. As respected thinker and educator David Willis explores the Nicene Creed in this new book, he provides clues for meaningfully interpreting this most ecumenical of church creeds in the twenty-first century.

Writing especially for educated laypeople, advanced students, and theological educators, Willis eloquently links the ancient creed to life today. As he points out, faith is constantly taking different shapes within broad boundaries like the creed’s perennial truths, and even these truths need to be reinterpreted in each age to keep them intelligible and compelling. Willis admirably achieves this task for our day by elucidating the creed’s statement of faith with analogies drawn from such diverse areas as architecture, graphic art, poetry, sculpture, and psychological theory.

Those seeking to delve into the creed or to deepen a lifelong encounter with it will be enriched by Willis’s reflections.

198 pages; dimensions (in inches): 5.5 x 8.5; 2005

Contents:
Introduction
The Earthiness of the Creed
What Believing Means
The Point of Creation
The Person of Christ
The Work of Christ
God the Holy Spirit
The Mystical Body
The Future of Forgiveness
Bibliography

Reviews

John Webster
This graceful reading of the Nicene Creed intends, the author tells us, “to offer some clues for being startled afresh by the depth and beauty of certain affirmations,” and what we read does just that. Quietly and persuasively the book invites its readers to ponder the surprises that the creed holds for the mind and the affections. This is a rich and resourceful study.

ISBN: 9780802828682
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: WM B EERDMANS PUB CO - published 15/05/2005
Format: Paperback  

£9.99
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