Learn the Nicene Creed in 12 Videos

Today Credo launches TheNiceneCreed.org! On this new website some of today’s best theologians introduce churchgoers to the Nicene Creed. In 12 short videos churches can contemplate the Trinity. But why this project? For over a millennium and a half the church across the globe has gathered together to confess the Trinity of the Nicene Creed. Across the Great Tradition this creed has proved to be a center around which the church unites as well as a guardrail that keeps the church from drifting into false doctrine.

However, such unity was not easily achieved. The Nicene Creed did not sprout in a soil absent of weeds. With the rise of the Arian heresy, a heresy that subordinated the Son to the Father, the Nicene Creed was forged in a century fraught with turmoil, one that threated to forever divide the church. But with Christianity itself on the line, the church fathers came together at the council of Nicaea (AD 325), and again at the council of Constantinople (AD 381), to put down a credo (“I believe…”) that ensured true worship for the church.

The church in the twenty-first century is no stranger to temptation. It too faces unique challenges—albeit, modern ones—and finds itself at a fork in the road. With the influx of modern theology over the last century and its ongoing influence on Protestantism, the church must decide whether it will link arms with the church catholic (universal) to worship the same Trinity professed in the Nicene Creed.

The goal of the Nicene Creed project is to help the church stay faithful to orthodoxy. In 12 videos any Christian, church, pastor, or student can learn the basics of the Nicene Creed. And with supplemental videos on difficult questions, that knowledge can go deeper still. May this project help the church stay faithful to classical trinitarianism today for the sake of true worship in the future.

In the unifying spirit of Nicaea, this project is a collaboration, bringing together pastors and scholars across denominations to retrieve the Nicene Creed in the church.

We would like to thank our sponsors, including Credo’s investment in the videos and
content, especially Scott Meadows. We are also grateful to Lakeside Baptist Church’s support of the project at large. We are very thankful to the team of theologians who contributed to the videos and made this project possible.