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6.119: How did we get from the Bible to the Creeds?

Today our theologians will be answering the listener-submitted question, "How Did We Get From the Bible to the Creeds?"

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Welcome to season six of Enter the Bible, a podcast where we share “Everything You Wanted to Know about the Bible…but were afraid to ask.”

Jennifer Wojciechowski joins co-hosts Katie Langston and Kathryn Schifferdecker. Wojciechowski is an assistant professor of church history and has been teaching at Luther Seminary since 2019. Before this, she taught in the religion department at Augsburg University.

Today our theologians will be answering the listener-submitted question, “How Did We Get From the Bible to the Creeds?”

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Topics, themes, and figures mentioned

  • The Apostles’ Creed
  • Nicene Creed
  • Roman Creed
  • Catechesis
  • First Ecumenical Council at Nicea: 325
  • Arianism
  • Trinitarian Theology
  • Platonism
  • Arius
  • Athanasius of Alexandria: On the Incarnation
  • Council of Constantinople: 381
  • Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code

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Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, Word & World and the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.

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Katie Langston

Katie Langston is a doubter by nature and a believer by grace. She grew up Mormon in a small Utah town and still isn't sure she fits in anywhere sophisticated enough to have a Target. She's the author of Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace, an acclaimed spiritual memoir about her conversion to orthodox Christianity. Katie works as the director of digital strategy for Luther Seminary's innovation team, where she oversees digital projects aimed at cultivating vibrant Christian spirituality in a post-modern, post-Christian cultural context.

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