Why a Latter-day Saint Might Recite the Nicene Creed

It is often said that Latter-day Saints do not accept the ecumenical creeds. This chapter argues that, in the case of the Nicene Creed, Latter-day Saint acreedalism is not best explained by doctrinal disagreements with the content of the Creed, for the appropriate standard of determining agreement with the Creed is a suitably constrained verbal agreement, and (it is argued) Latter-day Saints meet this standard of agreement. Rather, this acreedalism is best explained historically, and particularly in the Latter-day Saints’ self-conception as a restoration of primitive Christianity.