Rule of Faith

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 342 words | Copyright

Rule of Faith (Regula Fidei). One of the names used to describe the outline statements of Christian belief which circulated in the 2nd-cent. Church. Other names were the ‘rule of truth’, the ‘law of faith’, or the ‘norm of truth’. Unlike creeds, which came later, these formularies varied in wording.

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