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The Apostles' Creed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Kirsopp Lake
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

During the last three years there has been unusual activity in the study of the Apostles' Creed. The purpose of the present article is to draw attention to the significance of the main points which have been recently discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1924

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References

1 See also Professor Krüger's, article in the Harvard Theological Review for October, 1921.Google Scholar

2 Also published separately.

3 The authorities for the text are the Verona Latin, the Ethiopic version, and the Sahidic version. There are also secondary versions in Bohairic and Arabic. See Hauler, Didascaliae apostolorum fragmenta Veronensia latina, and G. Horner, The Statutes of the Apostles.

4 See Schwartz, E., Ueber die pseudapostolische Kirchenordnungen, and Connolly, R. H., The Socalled Egyptian Church Order (Texts and Studies viii, 4)Google Scholar.

5 Of course if the Coptic version of the Egyptian Church Order be right, Hippolytus would appear in his proper place, with Irenaeus rather than Tertullian. I should like to believe this, but conscience rebels at accepting a generally inferior text in the interests of a theory.

6 I am delighted to see that Dean Inge in his ‘Confessio Fidei’ recognizes that the Synoptic Gospels represent an “apotheosis christology.” See Outspoken Essays, II, p. 41.