Why Do We Have Creeds?

Protestants affirm the principle of sola Scriptura—Scripture is the only inallible authority for the Christian. Yet even that principle is a confession, a mini-creed if you will. Creeds and confessions are an inescapable part of being a Christian in this fallen world, and they have an authority over believers.

In this booklet, Burk Parsons examines the complex issues of creeds and confessions. He looks at what it means to be confessional, how one can affirm sola Scriptura and yet still subscribe to a particular confession, and many other issues. It is a helpful look at the importance of creeds and confessions in our day.

Publisher: P & R
Type: paperback
ISBN: 9781596382022

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Dr. Burk Parsons is senior pastor of Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Fla., chief publishing officer for Ligonier Ministries, editor of Tabletalk magazine, and a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow. He is author of Why Do We Have Creeds?, editor of Assured by God and John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology, and cotranslator and coeditor of A Little Book on the Christian Life by John Calvin.

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"Burk Parsons gently deconstructs muddleheadedness and gives us a fresh appreciation of the necessity and usefulness of the church's historic creeds." --Sinclair B. Ferguson