The Apostles' Creed: Origin, History, and Some Early Commentaries

[Flaptekst] This work will offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origin and development of the Apostles' Creed (symbolum apostolorum), the first to appear since Kelly's "Early Christian Creeds" (1950). Westra gathers the fruits of more recent literature, and critically discussses the work of Markschies, Kinzig, and Vinzent ("Tauffragen und Bekenntnis"), who presented a completely novel theory on the origin of the Apostles' Creed in 1999. Westra discusses the phenomenon of credal change, as the different variants, and presents an elaborate overview of these variants. He discusses also the testimony of well-known authors such as Ambrose, Augustine, and Rufinus anew.