“I Believe in God the Creator” – The Origin and Meaning of the Concept Cover Image

„Wierzę w Boga Stworzyciela” – geneza i sens formuły
“I Believe in God the Creator” – The Origin and Meaning of the Concept

Author(s): Antoni Żurek
Subject(s): History of Church(es), Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: the Creed; God’s almightiness; the creation;

Summary/Abstract: The first article of the Christian Creed tells the truth about God – the Creator of the universe. There were different ways of defining and interpreting this fact in ancient Church. Most often it was being explained in contrast to imprecise concepts, especially gnostic and Manichean ones. Learning about the history of the Christian Creed helps to understand this problem. The article makes an attempt to present this history and both the origin and sense of the first article. The analyses are based mainly on religious texts.

  • Issue Year: 32/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 73-84
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish