ABSTRACT
The catalogue is far from exhaustive, it does permit a picture of the tradition of interpretation of the faith under the Carolingians that contradicts any idea of a uniform catechesis or a generally agreed upon corpus of texts to explain the creed. Little attention has been paid to the creed commentary collection as an expression of Carolingian creativity in passing on the fides recta. Beyond obvious creed commentaries, they assembled snippets of, or entire, patristic and Carolingian works of many literary genres. The creed commentary collections offer no evidence of any court-promulgated catechesis on the creed. The creed commentary compilers' use of canon law collections might help to explain the diversity of theological ideas that persisted in the Carolingian period. Speaking in general of the creed commentary collections that contain several canonical pieces, there is little evidence that the compilers simply lifted material en bloc from a single canonical collection.
