Most of my research into church history has preceeded the writing of the creeds -- but I do know they were intended to root out heretics -- to exclude the Adoptionists, the Gnostics, the Docetae, the Arianists, the Monophysitists, the Pelagians, the Donatists, and various others...
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Date: 2004-04-11 08:30 pm (UTC)