Revd Professor C. F. D. Moule (Cambridge)
This unusual book is a tour de force. It turns profundities of Christian doctrine into crisp, epigrammatic and sometimes jocular verse, full of imaginative parable and simile; but it is more. Here is the expression of a hard-won, ruthlessly honest personal faith. The terse, well documented commentary that goes with the verse is exactly right, guiding the reader lucidly to the heart of each problem, and suggesting ways of understanding without skirting the difficulties.

CONTENT: Contemporary Creed translates ancient beliefs into today’s language. It is written for those who, like the author, do not find it easy to believe and whose faith is married to doubt, but he points an intelligent pathway through sixty intellectual problems of traditional Christian beliefs. A library of theology books is compressed into this novel and popular mini-course on modern Christianity, in transparent English, without jargon. Original verse helps animates old truths and solve their difficulties.

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MY CREED

I believe in God, the Father of all,: who began and upholds a universe; that makes itself through evolving processes.; God is Love, granting to creation a freedom; that restricts his power.

Through his Son Jesus
this self-giving God rescued us and
showed us what he is like:: loving in life and death;; sharing our pain;; suffering the consequences of our sin;; offering forgiveness.

Jesus died for us but was raised by God: and now lives with us through his Spirit; to build God’s kingdom of unselfish love; and lead us, as our judge and Savior,; to eternity with him.

My 100-word creed was not written to replace the Nicene Creed (accepted at the Council of Chalcedon 451 AD, and possibly at Constantinople in 381 AD). I wrote it for school leavers and parents as a summary of their years in chapel and it is given as a memento bookmark inside their Gideons’ New Testament. The Nicene and Apostles’ Creeds omit two subjects that I hint at: why suffering is unavoidable in God’s universe, and why Jesus can rightly be called our Savior.

AUTHOR: John Morris, MA, M.Ed, PGCE, PhD, was a teacher and lecturer for over thirty years before being ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1995.

Commendation by
the Archbishop of York
Sentamu Ebor
We need books to bridge the gap between belief and unbelief, between the Church and the enquirer who cannot find the entrance and, for that matter, between the pulpit and the pew. This book does it. It is not a casual read. It presumes that the reader has already wrestled with some of those metaphysical enigmas which have dogged human beings from time immemorial. It requires a basic familiarity with the Bible. John Morris mixes deep digging with devotion and flights of fancy. He is thinking aloud. My hunch is that many will find it to be a companion on the journey: challenging but not threatening, for it will articulate some of their own thoughts and offer some new ones. CONTEMPORARY CREED deserves to be read slowly and carefully, lest its hidden depths go overlooked. It would be good for discussion in groups or by couples, or as a personal manual of Christian instruction. John Morris taught me when I was a young man and I am delighted to see that he has lost none of his insight, none of his passion, none of his questing. I commend this book.

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