The Creedal Imperative Quotes

“The stories the modern world tells us are powerful: the future-oriented promise of science, the technology that privileges the young, the materialistic paradise offered by consumerism, which is always just around the next corner, the dying of confidence in words, the fragmentation of human nature, the distrust of traditional structures and notions of authority, and the wicked results of saying that somebody else is wrong and does not belong. All of these in their different ways make the idea of doctrinal Christianity, expressed in creeds and confessions, both implausible and distasteful; and all of them are part of the cultural air we all breathe.”
― Carl R. Trueman, The Creedal Imperative

“Seria uma trágica ironia se a rejeição de credos e confissões — por tantas pessoas que com sinceridade desejam ser fiéis em sentido bíblico — se revelasse não um ato de fidelidade, mas uma capitulação involuntária ao espírito da época.”
― Carl R. Trueman, O imperativo confessional

“Christian theology, in other words, always has a certain ineradicable complexity, which has serious implications for the modern evangelical predilection for simple and very brief statements of faith.”
― Carl R. Trueman, The Creedal Imperative