The Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed is the universal confession of the Christian church on the Trinity and the person of Christ. Its original form was set at the Council of Nicaea in 325 against the Arian denial that the Son is of the same substance as the Father; the creed was expanded at Constantinople in 381 to confess the deity of the Holy Spirit and is strictly called the Nicene–Constantinopolitan Creed.

It is the one creed affirmed across the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, and Reformed traditions, and it stands behind every later confession the Reformed churches produced. Against any subordinationist or modalist reading of the Trinity, it confesses the Son as "begotten, not made, of one substance (homoousios) with the Father," and the Spirit as "the Lord and giver of life." AskCredo cites the Nicene Creed on questions about the Trinity, the eternal generation of the Son, the deity and procession of the Holy Spirit, and the ecumenical boundaries of Christian orthodoxy.

Questions on AskCredo that cite the Nicene Creed. Creeds are short confessional summaries affirmed by the historic church — they are cited as whole texts rather than by chapter or article.