Kinzig on the Creeds
Mark Edwards
In these four volumes Wolfram Kinzig has put together the largest compilation to date of texts which profess set out principal tenets Church between second and eighth centuries Christian era. dimension it easily surpasses its German precursors eighteenth nineteenth centuries, while in content can aim be more eclectic than compendium Philip Schaff addressed clergy fellow-believers 1877. Its only rival twenty-first century is joint labour Jaroslav Pelikan Valerie Hotchkiss, broader chronological range but therefore less exhaustive representation this formative epoch. The first volume affords all necessary materials for telling untelling narrative customarily ends with promulgation an amplified version Nicene Creed at Constantinople 381; argosy western specimens, a high proportion being prototypes or variants so-called Apostles Creed; third miscellany both personal synodical confessions, some conventional, idiosyncratic, many obscure provenance purpose; contents fourth are drawn primarily from Carolingian era, though sources consulted half as various Pontifical Donaueschingen (vol. iv. 99), Irish Book Dimma (iv. 119), Dicta Leonis Episcopi 158–61) Sacramentary Autun 283). result monument erudition, invaluable resource future scholarship, pleasurable reading those who have hitherto been unable approach want English rendering. following remarks offered editor stimulus discussion, not throw any aspersion on his judgement many-times-proven competence historian critic.
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