The earliest known formula is found within Testamentum in Galilaca D. The Old Roman Creed had evolved from simpler texts based on Matthew 28:19, part of the Great Commission, and it has been argued that this earlier text was already in written form by the late 2nd century (c. This illumination from a 13th-century manuscript shows the apostles writing the Creed, receiving inspiration from the Holy Spirit. The narrative of this creed having been jointly created by the Apostles, with each of the twelve contributing one of twelve articles, was already current at that time. Īmbrose's term is here referring to the Old Roman Creed, the immediate predecessor of what is now known as the Apostles' Creed. The term Symbolum Apostolicum appears for the first time in a letter, probably written by Ambrose, from a Council in Milan to Pope Siricius in about AD 390 'Let them give credit to the Symbol of the Apostles, which the Roman Church has always kept and preserved undefiled'. Firmilian, the latter in particular speaking of the trinitarian formula as the 'Symbol of the Trinity', and recognizing it as an integral part of the rite of baptism. The ecclesiastical use of Latin symbolum for 'creed'-in the sense of 'a distinctive mark of Christians', from the sense of Greek σύμβολον, 'a sign or token used for identification'-first occurs around the middle of the 3rd century, in the correspondence of St. The expression 'Apostles' Creed' is first mentioned in a letter from the Synod of Milan dated AD 390, referring to a belief at the time that each of the Twelve Apostles contributed an article to the twelve articles of the creed.

For this reason, it was held to predate the Nicene Creed in medieval Latin tradition. It thus says nothing explicitly about the divinity of either Jesus or the Holy Spirit. It does not address some Christological issues defined in the Nicene Creed. It is shorter than the full Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed adopted in 381, but it is still explicitly trinitarian in structure, with sections affirming belief in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It has been used in the Latin liturgical rites since the 8th century and, by extension, in the various modern branches of Western Christianity, including the modern liturgy and catechesis of the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Presbyterianism, Moravianism, Methodism, and Congregational churches. The creed most likely originated in 5th-century Gaul as a development of the Old Roman Symbol, the old Latin creed of the 4th century. The Apostles' Creed ( Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or 'symbol of faith'.

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