How the Creed takes us out of ourselves

A new series from leading theologian, Garry Williams, encouraging us to engage systematically with theology via the Nicene Creed

‘We believe in one God’

You may have read or said the Nicene Creed* beginning either ‘I believe’ or ‘We believe’. The Church of England, for example, has ‘I believe’ in the Book of Common Prayer, but both ‘I’ and ‘We’ appear in the recent Common Worship liturgies. The original Greek text had ‘We believe’ and seems to have been changed so that the Creed could serve as an individual profession of faith.