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The Countercultural Creed

What are Christians really doing when they stand up and say I believe?

Luke Timothy Johnson | posted 10/01/2003 12:00AM

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In short, the creed helps create each week an actively committed people, prepared to enter together into the mystery that shapes and nourishes its common life.

Excerpted from The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why It Matters by Luke Timothy Johnson. Published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. Copyright 2003 by Luke Timothy Johnson. Reprinted with permission.

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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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