num_pages: 81
description: ""The Nicene Creed ... for all the dust it gathers these days, is one of the most important statements of the Christian faith that the church has ever produced. It is also the oldest written expression of the faith in the church's treasury. It outdates the Apostles' Creed, when their final forms are compared, by nearly 500 years."" (from the Introduction)The single question that produced the Nicene Creed What does what we have seen and experienced of God mean for today and forever?Believers today ask similar Does it really make any difference, really, in whether you believe in God, or anything outside of yourself?Frank H. Seilhamer leads readers through the Nicene Creed, using countless contemporary illustrations to help explain its meaning. He says that as we ask basic questions about existence, and God, we produce blessings we never imagined. ""We Believe"" shows how sustaining and how life-shaping the Nicene Creed can be.Frank H. Seilhamer , York, Pennsylvania, is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages and literature and Jewish history and religion from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and the Dropsie University, Philadelphia.
language: English
title: We Believe
titlecomplete: We Believe
publisher: CSS Publishing Company