Living the Christian Creed

  • Type Book
  • Genre theology
  • Tradition Eastern Orthodox
  • Original language English

For For readers who want the Nicene Creed explained article by article as something to live; long and patient, best after one of his shorter books.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
4 of 5 strongly recommended
For the researcher
4 of 5 important
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

Thirty-nine talks of 1977-1980 on the Nicene Creed, article by article, as a faith to be lived.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 3 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 4 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Thirty-nine talks on the Nicene Creed that Bloom gave at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Ennismore Gardens, London, between October 1977 and May 1980, transcribed and published for the first time by Darton, Longman and Todd, edited and introduced by John Binns of the Institute of Orthodox Studies in Cambridge, with a foreword by Rowan Williams (288 pages). Its fourteen chapters follow the Creed: faith, the nature of God, creation, Jesus as the Word and Son of God, redemption and atonement, the Mother of God, salvation from sin, resurrection and ascension, judgment, the Holy Spirit, the Church, baptism and life in Christ.

Catalog IDW.NG3KDK.B

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