Today’s free book is F.J. Badcock’s History of the Creeds. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation.
No student of the history of liturgies can afford to neglect the evidence furnished by baptismal Creeds. These were an intrinsic, though only an occasional, part of the liturgy, and in the absence of direct evidence to the contrary, evidence which is not forthcoming until the seventh century, it is a fair presumption that the type of Creed would be an index of the type of liturgy in use; and thanks to many sermons and instructions on the Creed we possess a far more detailed knowledge of the local baptismal Creed than we do of the remainder of the rite during the first five hundred years of the Christian religion.
Preface to Second Edition, p.xi.
In consequence of this I have felt myself at liberty to introduce a far larger bulk of liturgical matter and thereby to defend myself against the criticisms of the reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, who thought that I had exaggerated the liturgical influence of the patriarchate of Antioch.
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