Historic Creeds

Here are some important Confessions, Creeds and Catechisms of the Christian Church. I plan to organize, annotate and add to this this list as time goes on.

The Apostle’s Creed

The Nicene Creed 

The Athanasian Creed

The Definition of Chalcedon 

The 95 Theses

Augsburg Confession

Waldensian Confession

Calvin’s Catechism 

The Genevan Book of Church Order

The Thirty-Nine Articles

John Smyth Confession of Faith

London Baptist Confession of 1644

The Baptist Catechism 

The Westminster Confession of Faith

The Shorter Westminster Catechism 

Heidelberg Catechism 

Belgic Confession

Canons of Dordt

Second London Baptist Confession of 1689

Revised New Hampshire Baptist Confession of 1853

Charles Spurgeon’s Puritan (Baptist) Catechism 

Confession of Faith of the Calvinistic Methodists of Wales 

The Abstract of Principles (SBTS) 

The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy