Ecumenical Creeds
The ancient ecumenical creeds of the Christian church serve us even to this day by: 1) providing a solid foundation for theological formulation, as well as boundary markers; and 2) showing us how the ancient church worked out many theological issues that crept up within the first half of the first millennia. The interesting thing for our world today, is that the theological issues we deal with are almost all recycled from the issues that the early church already dealt with. We can learn from those who came before us, and the creeds remind us of that.