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Editor's Bookshelf: 'We Live What We Believe'

Luke Timothy Johnson talks about the importance of the creed—even for non-creedal Christians

David Neff | posted 11/01/2003 12:00AM

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The Creed is very important as a way of articulating those things that enable us actually to be political. But the politics of the Creed does not seek to recreate the structures of the total society in our image so much as to create structures of meaning and patterns of behavior that witness to that larger structures in a powerful, convincing, and transformative way.

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Luke Timothy Johnson's The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why It Matters is this month's selection for CT's Editor's Bookshelf. Elsewhere on our site you can:

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