“We believe in one God the Father Almighty. . .”

Creeds, confessions, and catechisms for corporate and individual worship and study.

“This volume contains selected doctrinal documents of the Christian faith as confessed throughout the history of Presbyterian and Reformed churches of Jesus Christ to the present day. Although not equal in authority to inspired revelation, we believe these documents to be faithful summaries of Christian doctrine as taught by Holy Scripture. It is with this in mind that we have prepared this edition expressly for the use of students at Westminster Theological Seminary. However, it is our hope that the quality and portability of the book, along with its pertinent selections of creeds and confessions, will make it immediately useful for broader application—supplementing and serving the worship and study of Christ’s church.”

The historic texts which comprise this volume include:

• Ecumenical creeds: The Apostles’ Creed, The Nicene Creed, The Chalcedonian Definition, and The Athanasian Creed
• The Westminster Standards: The Westminster Confession of Faith, The Westminster Larger Catechism, and The Westminster Shorter Catechism
• The Three Forms of Unity: The Belgic Confession, The Heidelberg Catechism, and The Canons of the Synod of Dort
• The Second Helvetic Confession

THE AUTHORS:

Peter Lillback (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is president and professor of historical theology and church history at Westminster Theological Seminary. He also serves as the president emeritus and founder of The Providence Forum and senior editor of the new Unio cum Christo: An International Journal of Reformed Theology and Life.

Bernard Aubert (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is Managing Editor of Unio cum Christo—an international journal based at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and International Reformed Evangelical Seminary, Jakarta—and a visiting lecturer in New Testament studies at Farel Faculté de Théologie Réformée, Montréal, Canada. He studied theology at the Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence, and then completed a PhD in hermeneutics and New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. He is the author of The Shepherd-Flock Motif in the Miletus Discourse (Acts 20:17–38) Against Its Historical Background (Peter Lang, 2009), and a contributor to Thy Word Is Still Truth: Essential Writings on the Doctrine of Scripture from the Reformation to Today (P&R Publishing, 2013). He is married to Annette, and they have one son: Pascal.