Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1858 — The Athanasian Creed. [ARTICLE]

The Athanasian Creed.

We publish the following creed by Tequest,. it being almdst out of print. It is copied from the Church of England Prayer Book of 1831. Watson says: . This creed, though generally admitted not drawn lip by Athanasius himself, but contained a fair expression of his sentiments. It js supposed to have been perfected in the 1 sth century by Hilary, bishop of Arles. : St. Athanasius, the celebrated Patriarch I of Alexandria, now the leading opponent of Arius and his erroneous doctrines, was a j member of the Council of Nice, where he had great reputation for skill in controversy,' was afterwards banished twice’,' and once obliged to flee into tlie desert. He returned with the other bishops whom Julian the apostate recalled from banishment, and A. I D. 332 held a council at Alexandria where 1 the belief of a consubstantial Trinity was' openly professed. Many now were re- s covered from Arianism, and brought to sub- : scribe to the Nicene Creed. The views of Athanasius have been received in substance by all orthodox -Churches to the present time.