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From: Steve.Hayes@f22.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: MAJOR VIEWS OF THE TRINITY
Message-ID: <May.6.00.35.38.1993.15459@geneva.rutgers.edu>
Date: 6 May 93 04:35:38 GMT
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04 May 93, D. Andrew Byler writes to All:

 DAB> I think I need to again post the Athanasian Creed, whicc pretty well
 DAB> delinieates orthodox Christian belief on the Trinity, and on the
 DAB> Incarnation.

 DAB> It's a pretty good statement of the beliefs eventually accpeted, and the
 DAB> Creed is in use by the Catholic Church, as well as the Lutheran,
 DAB> Anglican, and Orthodox churches (the last minus the filioque, which they
 DAB> delete from the original form of the creed).

Do you have any evidence that it is used by the Orthodox Churches?

As far as I know it is purely Western, like the "Apostles' Creed". The
Orthodox Churches use the "Symbol of Faith", commonly called "The
Nicene Creed".

Steve Hayes
Department of Missiology
University of South Africa

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