We believe.(Credo: Historical And Theological Guide To Creeds And Confessions Of Faith In The Christian Tradition)(Book Review) From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Wilken, Robert Louis | COPYRIGHT 2004 Institute on Religion and Public Life. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

CREDO: HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL GUIDE TO CREEDS AND CONFESSIONS OF FAITH IN THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION. By JAROSLAV PELIKAN. Yale University Press. 609 pp. $37.50.

IN 1844 PHILIP SCHAFF, a Swiss church historian, to the surprise of his academic colleagues, accepted a position at the German Reformed Seminary in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. At the time the seminary, under the leadership of the Reformed theologian John Nevin, was the center of a movement of renewal within the ...