The Basilica Cistern, part of Roman
Constantinople (now Istanbul) where the
Nicene Creed was revised | photo: iStock
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.
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