The Creed

The Creed - Rev. Andreas Michailidis

This treatise began when the writer commenced his Bible sessions with his parishioners in Nottingham in 2001. He begun with a rather comprehensive introduction to the study of the Bible before entering the main work of analyzing the books of the New Testament and the Psalms.
    When he reached the point of dealing with the Creed, he realized how immense the subject was and started dealing with its analysis. Finally, he reached the point of writing a whole work: the book you're holding in your hands.
    The writer thought it was his duty, as a theologian and as a priest, to let his parishioners, and as many Christians as possible, know more about what they usually say when they recite the Creed. Sometimes they recite it without really knowing what they are saying; or if they do, they know very little. Sometimes what they think they know is wholly or partially incorrect.
    The writer knows that he is not the first to write about the Creed. He merely thought of giving his own interpretation of the Creed, especially based on his theological research dealing with the concept of space and time, within the framework of the solution of the theological problem about the existence or not of a middle state of the souls. That is why the writer thinks that this is a modern interpretation of the Creed. This does not mean innovations that go beyond the ‘limits’ of our faith; that would be absolutely contradictory to the essence of the present undertaking, which deals with the Creed. The Creed means that revealed truths that we believe in and these truths cannot change or be modified in any way through the ages.
    Whatever the writer says here is not his knowledge but it is based hopefully on the wisdom of the Fathers of our Church whom he has studied diligently.
    The writer also asks to be forgiven for any flaws in his writing. One might find errors in the language. English is not his mother tongue.

(From the prologue o the book).

Pages: 220
Dimensions: 6 x 9 cm.