TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bezancon, Jean-Noel
AU  - Onfray,Jean-Marie
AU  - Ferlay,Philippe
TI  - How to Understand the Creed
SN  - 0824508688   
U1  - D54 
PY  - 1988///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cross Road Publishing Company
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction ...1  Our baptismal creed ...1  From the gospel to the Creed ...4  Father and son in the spirit ...7  Our creeds in History ...10  Part one  1. I believe in one god ...15  Is reason enough ? -The affirmation of faith in the frame work of the covenant -I am a jealous God - The service of the one God -Christian monotheism and asian polytheism  2. The church believes in the father of jesus ...19  The true father of jesus -Loved with the same love -The structure of christian prayer -Divine unity and trinity  3. I believe in God, The father and creator ...22  Creation is a dogma - is this dogma about the father ? -Bring all together in unity -Creation and the mystery of Easter - Creation and pentecost - New world and eucharist  4. Creators with God ...25  God alone is creator - Love produces freedom - creators with god -Male and female he made them - The christian significance of the body - An image of the communion of the trinity - God is creating today   5. I believe in God, creator of humanity ...31  A paradoxical being- Are we soul and body ?- Nature and vocation   6 God creator of the invisible world ...33  What the angels cannot be - The  angels are at the service of humanity - The angels are subject to christ  7 God is not the creator of Evil ...35  The illusion of words -God wants only good - in jesus there is only yes -The devil is a creature -yes the devil exists and acts   8 Creation waits for christ ...38  The expectation of the kingdom -He who must come  Part two  9 And in one lord jesus christ ...41  Is faith in god split in to three ?- Two ways of reading the creed -Beginning from jesus - Christ Messiah -The only one - christ is Lord-Lord -As a servant- Enthroned in his resurrection - Monotheism is a combat - The father`s last word- God`s last word  10 The only son of god  ...47  In his resurrection - Who is son of God -God had promised him - The supreme ease of the son - The kaddish -The Familiarity of his prayer-Abba - Being son and knowing it - A difference between the father and the son which is the basis for their communion - The church hymns the son   11 He is God, born of god ...53  Before all ages- The church experiencex the divinity of christ -Jesus as god of st Ambrose - The church expresses the divinity of christ -Jeus as God - The theology Of prepositions - A council has decided - Born of the father before all ages - He is begotten, we are created- God as son - becoming god  12 All is by him and for him ...60  The pole of history -Everything towards him -Everything was created with a view to the resurrection - The wisdom that sits by the throne -The father`s wisdom - Brought into being before the age -The church hymns the firstborn -Alpha and omega - In the beginning he is the work -Jesus ,the genesis of the world - The lord of the universe -by him ,with and in him  13 For us and for our salvation ...66  God saves from all eternity - God brings forth -The hope of our fathers -Accustoming man to receive God - Sinners from the beginning -The paradoxes of salvation - Becomingt sons in the son - Truth has sprung up from the earth , and justice has come down from heaven - Do not forget your birth -When God comes down from heaven - Every man and the whole man - he descended  14 He took flesh and was made man ...72  15 Crucified,dead and buried ...81  16 Risen and exalted ...89  17 He will come again in glory ...96  Part three  18 I believe in the holy spirit ...105  19 He is Lord ...110  20 He gives life  ...114  21 Life according to the spirit ...117  22 He proceeds from the father and the son ...121  23 He has spoken by the prophets ...124  24 I believe in the church ...127  25 Baptism and the gift of the spirit ...131  26 The spirit manifests the sin of the world ...135  27 One, Holy ,Caatholic and apostolic ...138  28 A faith Marked by expectation ...144  29 Ressurection of the dead, resurrection of the flesh ...146  30 Do not quench the spirit ...148
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