ABSTRACT
The creed which emerged during the second century to articulate the rule of faith began with an embrace of the God of Israel as creator and with an equally emphatic (if indirect) rejection of any dualism which would remove God from the realities of our world. 1 The emphasis falls unequivocally on the reality of Christ’s appearance in human flesh, and on Christ’s capacity to transform human life in the flesh into the image of God. And that is indeed the Incarnational emphasis which governs the creed and—as we have now seen—Christianity as a whole. But that statement of belief in “God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth” obviously also involves a commitment to the experience of this world as actually attesting the presence of God.
