Evangelicals and Nicene Faith Reclaiming the Apostolic Witness

includes index and biblioraphy

Part 1: Identity 1. The Faith Once Delivered: Nicea and Evangelical Confession 3 Thomas C. Oden 2. The Gospel Promised by the Prophets: The Trinity and the Old Testament 20 Mark S. Gignilliat 3. The Road to Nicea: The New Testament 34 Frank Thielman 4. Whosoever Will Be Saved: The Athanasian Creed and the Modern Church 45 Gerald R. Bray Part 2: History 5. The Reformers and the Nicene Faith: An Assumed Catholicity 61 Carl L. Beckwith 6. The Nicene Faith and the Catholicity of the Church: Evangelical Retrieval and the Problem of Magisterium 74 Steven R. Harmon 7. The Church Is Part of the Gospel: A Sermon on the Four Marks of the Church 93 Carl E. Braaten 8. Confessional, Baptist, and Arminian: The General-Free Will Baptist Tradition and the Nicene Faith 100 J. Matthew Pinson 9. Toward a Generous Orthodoxy 116 Curtis W. Freeman Part 3: Practice 10. Practicing the Nicene Faith 133 Elizabeth Newman 11. The Nicene Faith and Evangelical Worship 147 David P. Nelson 12. Taking In His Coming Down 159 Kathleen B. Nielson 13. The Will to Believe and the Need for Creeds 169 John Rucyahana 14. Can the Church Emerge without or with Only the Nicene Creed? 179 Mark DeVine 15. Life after Life after Death: A Sermon on the Final Phrase of the Nicene Creed Ralph C. Wood 16. Delighted by Doctrine: A Tribute to Jaroslav Pelikan 202 Timothy George