Excerpt from The Nicene Creed: A Manual for the Use of Candidates for Holy Orders We will deal first with the form of Creed which has obtained universal acceptance. But we must first of all re mark, that though usually termed the Nicene Creed, because supposed to have been adopted at the First Oecumenical Council at Nicaea, a.d. 325, it is not the formula drawn up at the Nicene Council. Nor can we be sure that it is even. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.