Can Anybody In A Post-Christian Culture Rationally Believe The Nicene Creed?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23196793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Donagan (corresponding author) |
| Editors | Anthony N Perovich |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 15-33 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Reflections on philosophy and religion (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195121322.003.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W4388254197 |
| ISBN | 9780195121322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The phrase ‘‘the Christian religion’’ stands for so many things that the question whether educated people in the western world today can rationally believe it is too vague to be worth answering. It is otherwise with the question whether they can rationally believe the Nicene creed. Many who call themselves Christians would reject it. Yet it is part of the liturgy of many Christian bodies, in particular of the largest of all, the Roman Catholic Church, the central rite of which, the mass, requires both priest and people to profess it together. A century ago, virtually all Christians would have been willing to profess it, whether or not the liturgy of their branch of the church required it, although there is one phrase in it, ‘‘one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,’’ which not all would have understood in the same sense.
Art · Creed · Liturgy · Rite · Theology · Catholicism and Religious Studies · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |