Athanasian Creed
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Sep 26, 2026
R. Scott ClarkHOST
All Christians believe in all times and in all places.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
For example, if you see that in them, the Athanasian Creed sort of summarizes all the ecumenical creeds and the definition of Chalcedon is very clear about this, that we confess that Jesus is true man and true God.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
So all the properties that belong to a true man, except for sin, right? which we get from the book of Hebrews, if from no other place.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
Obviously, we get it from many other places.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The service I can't make head or tail of.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Think of the Athanasian.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Yes.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Eve stirred uneasily and began to execute a gentle scale with her tiny, tightly knit blue and white hand upon her knee.
Mike RigglesworthHOST
But I've been reading the creeds more in my devotional time.
Mike RigglesworthHOST
The Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and that phrase begotten shows up in every single one of the creeds.
Mike RigglesworthHOST
And there's this distinction the Nicene Creed makes.
Mike RigglesworthHOST
They said he is begotten, not made.
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Ryan WillardHOST
Well, yeah,
Mike RigglesworthHOST
because look at the creeds.
Mike RigglesworthHOST
You look at the Nicene and the Apostles and the Athanasian Creed.
Mike RigglesworthHOST
They're explicit about the Son is fully God, the Father is fully God, the Spirit is fully God, and they are equal.
speaker_3NARRATOR
But in Ravello village the bells rang merrily, and the church was fuller than all through the rest of the year, with red faces among the abundant dark green boughs, faces prepared for a longer service than usual by an odorous breakfast of toast and ale.
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Those green boughs, the hymn and anthem never heard but at Christmas, even the Athanasian Creed, which was discriminated from the others only as being longer and of exceptional virtue since it was only read on rare occasions, brought a vague exulting sense, for which the grown men could as little have found words as the children, that something great and mysterious had been done for them in heaven above and in earth below, which they were appropriating by their presence.
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And then the red faces made their way through the black biting frost to their own homes, feeling themselves free for the rest of the day to eat, drink, and be merry, and using that Christian freedom without diffidence.
speaker_3NARRATOR
At Squire Cass's family party that day nobody mentioned Dunstan.
speaker_3NARRATOR
As thus boldly stated, the idea seems crude and indeed silly, but undoubtedly he had hit upon a philosophical notion of considerable importance, a notion which has a long history and which has moved the minds of men and has even entered into Christian theology.
speaker_3NARRATOR
About a thousand years separate the Athanasian Creed from Pythagoras, and about two thousand four hundred years separate Pythagoras from Hegel.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Yet for all these distances in time, the importance of definite number in the constitution of the divine nature and the concept of the real world as exhibiting the evolution of an idea can both be traced back to the train of thought set going by Pythagoras.
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance, for it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
And out of that early church's struggle, especially against false teachers, we have these wonderful, faithful creeds.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
For example, we have what we read today, the beginning of which last week Sunday night, the Athanasian Creed, the third article says, and the Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in unity.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
And you may recall it goes on to explain very carefully the doctrine of the Trinity.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
So the early church was led to see that fundamental truth first.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
The church developed, this is who God is, and this is who Christ is.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
Now what's the significance of that? The significance in the first place is is that this is what the church always believed concerning the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
What I read from the Athanasian Creed, the Creed of Chalcedon, and we could add to that the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are exactly that.
Nathan DeckerGUEST
They are creeds.
Austin WhiteGUEST
Two testaments, old and new.
Austin WhiteGUEST
Three creeds, Nicene, Apostles, Athanasian.
Austin WhiteGUEST
Four ecumenical councils.
Austin WhiteGUEST
So ecumenical councils, one, two, three, four.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Oh, I suppose some of them are.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
In fact, David, if I didn't believe that there was something more in you than texts and litanies and the Athanasian Creed, I'll be hanged if I'd ever have let you look twice at Edith.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
That girl has got blood in her veins, David.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
She's not to be thrown away on any lantern-jawed, white-livered doctor of souls, I can tell you.
Phylicia MasonheimerHOST
The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are really great starting points.
Phylicia MasonheimerHOST
The Athanasian Creed is actually my favorite, if you'd like to read that.
Phylicia MasonheimerHOST
Historical creeds written by church fathers.
Phylicia MasonheimerHOST
You can read through these and you can see these are the basics of the gospel, but it's not just like, oh, you know, believe the Trinity and who cares how you live? No.
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The Athanasian Creed by Athanasius of Alexandria whoever will be saved before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled without doubt he shall perish everlastingly and the catholic faith is this that we worship one god in trinity and trinity in unity neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance for there is one person of the father another of the son and another of the holy spirit but the godhead of the father of the son and of the holy spirit is all one the glory equal the majesty coeternal such as the father is such is the son and such is the holy spirit the father uncreated the son uncreated and the holy spirit uncreated the father incomprehensible the son incomprehensible and the holy spirit incomprehensible the father eternal the son eternal and the holy spirit eternal and yet they are not three eternals but one eternal as also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible but one uncreated and one incomprehensible so likewise the father is almighty the son almighty and the holy spirit almighty and yet they are not three almighties but one almighty so the father is god the son is god and the holy spirit is god and yet they are not three gods but one god so likewise the father is lord the son lord and the holy spirit lord and yet they are not three lords but one lord for like as we are compelled by the christian verity to acknowledge every person by himself to be god and lord so are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say there are three gods or three lords the father is made of none neither created nor begotten the son is of the father alone not made nor created but begotten the holy spirit is of the father and of the son neither made nor created nor begotten but proceeding so there is one father not three fathers one son not three sons one holy spirit not three holy spirits and in this trinity none is afore or after another none is greater or less than another but the whole three persons are co-eternal and co-equal so that in all things as aforesaid the unity in trinity and the trinity in unity is to be worshipped he therefore that will be saved must thus think of the trinity furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our lord jesus christ for the right faith is that we believe and confess that our lord jesus christ the son of god is god and man god of the substance of the father begotten before the worlds and man of substance of his mother born in the world perfect god and perfect man of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting equal to the father as touching his godhead and inferior to the father as touching his manhood who although he is god and man yet he is not two but one christ one not by conversion of the godhead into flesh but by taking of that manhood into god one altogether not by confusion of substance but by unity of person for as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man so god and man is one christ who suffered for our salvation descended into hell rose again the third day from the dead he ascended into heaven he sits on the right hand of the father god almighty from thence he will come to judge the quick and the dead at whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall give account of their own works.
speaker_2NARRATOR
And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.
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This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
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