id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195824 nan The Status of the Nicene Creed as dogma of the Church : theological consultation between representatives of the U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation and the Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical Affairs, held July 6-7, 1965, in Baltimore, Maryland. 1965 .txt text/plain 11325 440 56 The main points of the conversation are summarized in the following paragraphs: 1) We confess in common the Nicene Faith and therefore hold that the Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was made man, suffered, died, and rose again for our salvation, is true God; that He is from God the Father as Son, and therefore other than the Father; that the Godhead is one and undivided; and that the Holy Spirit, together with the Father and the Son, is to be wor- shipped and glorified. 2) The Nicene Faith gathers up and articulates the biblical testimony concerning the Son and His relationship to the Father. 3) The Nicene Faith, formulated by the Council at Nicaea in 325 and developed in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, was a response to contemporary errors. God the Father, the God who speaks; God the Son, the 23 Word uttered by the Father, who is begotten because uttered; God the Holy Spirit, procedent from Father Son as their Love and Gift. cache/_005195824.txt txt/_005195824.txt