Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes, Volume 1: The History of Creeds

Philip Schaff

128 chapters · about 22 h

Get it in Sphinx

Coming soon to iPhone and Android. Join the waitlist to hear when Sphinx opens.

Join the waitlist
Your phone

We'll only email you about Sphinx; you can ask us to remove you any time.

The opening

FIRST CHAPTER. OF CREEDS IN GENERAL.

OF CREEDS IN GENERAL.

General Literature.

Wm. Dunlop (Prof. of Church Hist. at Edinburgh, d. 1720): Account of all the Ends and Uses of Creeds and Confessions of Faith, a Defense of their Justice, Reasonableness, and Necessity as a Public Standard of Orthodoxy, 2d ed. Lond. 1724. Preface to [Dunlop’s] Collection of Confessions in the Church of Scotland, Edinb. 1719 sq. Vol. I. pp. v.–cxlv.

J. Caspar Köcher: Bibliotheca theologiæ symbolicæ et catechetiæ itemque liturgicæ, Wolfenb. and Jena, 1761–69, 2 parts, 8vo.

The whole book is in the Sphinx app.

About this edition

The words
The author's text, copied word for word.
Left out
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • A preface, foreword or afterword, in 3 places
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 4 places
  • The index