A review of Philip Schaff’s The Creeds of Christendom (1931)
Volume II: The Greek and Latin Creeds:
Gregorius Thaumaturgus of Neo-Caesarea
ca AD 270
“nothing created or subservient” (pp. 24‒27)
Lucian of Antioch
300
“in personality three, but in harmony one” (pp. 25‒28)
First Creed of Epiphanius/Nicene Creed 1st Formula
374
“only begotten Son of God” (pp. 32‒34)
The Athanasian Creed
5th Century AD
“none is greater or less than another…three persons coeternal and coequal…Unity in Trinity and Trinity in Unity” (pp. 66‒70)
Volume III: The Evangelical Protestant Creeds:
The Augsburg Confession
1530
“unity of the divine essence and persons” (pp. 7‒9)
The Formula of Concord
1576
“heresy that Father and Son have distinct essences, equal or unequal, we condemn.” (p. 179)
The French Confession of Faith (John Calvin)
1559
“same essence, equal in eternity and power” (pp. 359‒363)
The Belgic Confession
1561
“there is neither first nor last… the Son is equal to the Father in all things.” (pp. 389‒395)
Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of the Church of England
1562
“of one substance, power, and eternity” (pp. 486‒489)
The Irish Articles of Religion
1615
“in unity…substance, power, and eternity” (p. 528)
The Westminster Confession of Faith
1647
“one substance, power, and eternity” (p. 606)
The Westminster Shorter Catechism
1647
“same substance, equal in power and glory” (p. 677)
Methodist Articles of Religion
1784
“in unity of this Godhead, there are three persons of one substance, power, and eternity” (p. 807)
Evangelical Free Church of Geneva
1848
“born from a virgin…has been able to obey God in a perfect way” (pp. 781‒782)
Articles of Religion of the Reformed Episcopal Church
1875
“in unity of this Godhead, there be three persons of one substance, power, and eternity” (pp. 814‒815)
The Second Helvetic Confession
1566
“in order, one going before another, yet without any inequality” (p. 835; 1:397)
Presbyterian Church of England Articles of Faith
1890
“[Christ] at the right hand of God…clothed with authority and power as Lord over all” (p. 916; Article X)
American Congregational Statement of Doctrine
1883
“of one substance with the Father…worshiped and glorified” (p. 914; Declaration I)
Brief Statement of the Reformed Faith
1902
“one in substance, equal in power and glory” (p. 922; Article I)
The Basis of Union of the United Church of Canada
1925
“same substance, equal in power and glory…express image of the Father’s person” (pp. 935‒936; Articles I‒II)
Orthodox-Reformed Statement on the Holy Trinity
1992
“conjoined in all their distinctiveness, for the entire and undivided Godhead resides in each Person, and each Person dwells in or inheres in the Other; so that the whole of one Person is imaged in the whole of the Other”
http://www.reformiert-online.net/agora2/docs/18warctd.pdf.
Evangelical Theological Society Doctrinal Basis
2017
“God is a Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each an uncreated person, one in essence, equal in power and glory.”
Redemptive History and Theology 