Historic Creeds and Confessions
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- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
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Syllabus
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Reading Read:
- Apostles' Creed Broken link Primary text
- Nicene Creed 325 Broken link Primary text
- Chalcedonian Creed 451 Broken link Primary text
- Athanasian Creed 500 Broken link Primary text
- Canons on the Council of Orange 529 Broken link Primary text
- 2nd Council of Constantinople 553 Broken link Primary text
- 3rd Council of Constantinople 681 Broken link Primary text
- Luther's 95 Theses 1517 Broken link History
- Augsburg Confession 1530 Broken link History
- The Smalcald Articles 1537 Broken link History
- Geneva Catechism 1545 Broken link History
- The Confession of Guanabara 1558 Broken link History
- Scots Confession of 1560 Broken link History
- Belgic Confession 1561 Broken link Primary text
- 2nd Helvetic Confession 1562 Broken link History
- Heidelberg Catechism 1563 Broken link Primary text
- The Thirty-Nine Articles 1571 Broken link History
- The Irish Articles of Religion 1615 Broken link History
- Canons of Dort 1618 Broken link Primary text
- Westminster Standards 1646 Broken link Primary text Read in the 1647 text, the school's standard (Standards reader on this site). Where an edition follows the 1788 American revision (WCF 20.4, 23.3, 31.1-2), the 1647 text governs.
- Waldensian Confession 1655 Open source History
- The Conclusions of the Synod of Utrecht 1905 Open source Primary text