Notes on the "Credo" of the Mass

This article offers a commentary article by article on the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, written in French by two Orthodox theologians. The historical introduction, by Vladimir Lossky, traces the formation of the creeds of faith from the baptismal confessions of the second century to the definitive establishment of the so-called Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, confirmed by the Sixth Ecumenical Council. The following articles, completed after Lossky's death by Archimandrite Pierre L'Huillier, successively comment on each formula of the Creed: the Trinity, Christology, the Incarnation, the Passion, the Resurrection, the Ascension, pneumatology, ecclesiology, baptism, and eschatology. The main contribution of this work is twofold: it constitutes, according to its editors, the first complete Orthodox commentary on the Creed written in a Western language, and it systematically articulates the Greek patristic tradition with the conciliar definitions in order to bring out their dogmatic coherence.