Faith of Our Fathers: A Study of the Nicene Creed

by L. Charles Jackson

What do von believe? A confident young mats, attempting to sound neutral and levelheaded, might remark, "No creed but Christ: that's my confession of faith." He continues, "I don't like all these divisive doctrinal questions. 'Ihev just create a negative and intolerant religious environment." quickly and easily this comment rolls off the lips of so many people! You would think that rattling off this mantra relieves a person of all the entanglements of doctrinal controversy. After all, doesn't everyone know that "doctrine divides"? This seems to he the conventional wisdom of the day. people today are desperate to escape the snares of dogma, denominations, and other negative religiously entangling controversies. ,lhev believe that the barnacles of doctrinal controversy have scarred the church so badly that we should avoid dogma and doctrine like some kind of a medieval plague.