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| | Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition, Sample Chapters |
 | | We confessed that we believe, protect, and preach to the churches that confession of faith which was set out at greater length by the 318 holy fathers who met in the council at Nicaea and handed down the holy doctrine or creed. |
 | | During the Reformation period, it is in the Protestant confessions of faith, more even than in the formularies of Roman Catholicism of that period, that this accent on believing and confessing, or on interpreting Scripture and "making confession," or on "believing, teaching, and maintaining,"45 is especially prominent. |
 | | In an effort to classify these several meanings of faith in the language of the Bible and in the usage of the creeds and confessions of the churches, the systematic theologians of the Reformation tradition distinguish among three closely interrelated senses of the word: faith as knowledge, as assent, and as trust. |
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