
Jaroslav Pelikan — The Need for Creeds
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is the Y Universal Creed, Ok?
The nicin crete is perhaps used by most. It was adopted at a council called and directed by the newly converted christian emperor, not yet baptized. The reason for the universal authority of the nacino constant politan creed is the political and military authority it carried. Each conquest by the roman empire also brought the creed. As he marched and conquered, the creed came right with it. And so centuries later, in the great modern expansion of christianity, during the eighteenth and above all, the nineteenth century,. Three of the seven volumes are in the nineteenth century. That's also the great century of colonialism. So the religion the white man, which brought sanitation and money
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