Symbol of the apostles

The Symbole of the Apostles is a Christian Profession of faith .

It is also known under the name of Credo ( I believe , its first Latin word), but this employment is abusive because the Credo indicates in theory the Symbole of Nicée-Constantinople .

History

The Symbole of the Apostles would have been dictated with the Apôtre S under the influence of the the Holy Spirit, which question the Exégèse known as critical. The author Kattenbusch recalls the origin of the creed until the time of Tertullien. The author Harnack affirms that its final form corresponded to the baptismal confession of the south of the Gaulle of the 5th century, but it as lets hear as it could have come from Rome at the 2nd century.

The Concile of Thirty had accepted the origin Apostolique Credo . Rufinus defended its apostolic origin.

At the 2nd century, one mentioned confession of faith under other designations (controlled fidei, doctrina, traditio).

Ignace d' Antioche explicitly refers to the symbol in its Lettre in Tralliens.

Liturgical employment

In the catholic liturgy of the hours (the recitation of the Breviary), the symbol of the apostles was recited the every day, at the beginning of the offices of Matines and Primes. Since the edition of 2002 of the Romain Missal, it can be employed with the Mass instead of the Symbole of Nicée.

The text of the profession of faith

Curiously, the text of the third typical edition (2002) of the Romain Missal starts with " Creed in unum Deum ". It is in fact the beginning of very traditional the Symbole of Nicée-Constantinople , not the traditional text of the Symbol. It is obviously about an typographical error, and which he is not thus obligatory to respect in the liturgy (in exemption from gun 846).

French

I believe in God, the Father the Almighty, creator of the sky and from the ground,

and in Jesus-Christ, her Only son, our Seigneur,

which was conceived Holy Spirit, (and which) was born from the Virgin Mary;

(it) suffered under Pontius Pilate, (it) was crucifié, (it) died, (it) was buried, (it) is descended to the hells;

the third day, (it) is ressuscity of deaths;

(it) is assembled to the sky,

(it) sat ( alternative: it sits) at the right-hand side of God, the Father the Almighty;

from where it will come ( alternative: it will come from there) to judge the alive ones and deaths.

I believe in the Holy Ghost ( alternative: in the Holy Spirit)

with the holy universal Church ( catholic version: I believe in the holy Catholic church),

(with) the communion of the saints,

(with) the remission of the sins,

(with) the resurrection of the flesh

and (with) the eternal life.

Amen

To note: The alternatives of the Protestant version of the Credo are due to a preoccupation of clearness or a translation, but do not translate a divergence of doctrines. Thus, the adjective “ Catholique ” of the last article is replaced by its translation (καθολικός/katholikós meaning “general”, “universal”), not to lend to confusion with the Roman Catholic church .

Latin

Creed in Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli and terrae.

And in Iesum Christum, Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum:

which conceptus is of Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine,

passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, and sepultus,

descended AD infernos,

tertia die resurrexit has mortuis,

ascendit AD caelos,

sedet AD dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis,

India venturus is iudicare vivos and mortuos.

Creed in Spiritum Sanctum,

sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam,

sanctorum communionem,

remissionem peccatorum,

carnis resurrectionem,

vitam aeternam.

Amen.

References

Catechism of the Catholic church (1992) page 57, edition pocket (new edition)

See too

External bond

Article of the catholic encyclopedia

Simple: Apostles' Creed

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