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The Introduction to this set considers the present state of research in Early Christian creeds. This is followed by a collection of all creeds and creedal formulae of the early Church in Greek and Latin, from the writings of the New Testament down to the early Middle Ages.
Faith in Formulae will be an indispensable resource in patristic/early Christian/late antique studies for the foreseeable future... For an authoritative and comprehensive guide to early Christian creeds, look no further.
In these four volumes Wolfram Kinzig has put together the largest compilation to date of texts which profess to set out the principal tenets of the Church between the second and the eighth centuries of the Christian era ... The result is a monument of erudition, an invaluable resource for all future scholarship, and pleasurable reading for those who have hitherto been unable to approach the texts for want of an English rendering ... In scope there is nothing to match it, and it makes many texts available for the first time to Anglophone readers in translations which are invariably accurate and lucid.
[E]very theological library must own this four-volume set, Faith in Formulae. Without question it has become the new standard in its field and promises to remain that way for many years to come ... This set is a stunning achievement in primary source material.
Wolfram Kinzig's Faith in Formulae is an essential acquisition for any research library with holdings in early or medieval Christianity... Kinzig's writing is clear and graceful, and engaged with scholarly questions about authorship and dating. His translations, and those of Christopher M. Hays, are sound and unstilted... Scholars owe a debt of gratitude to Kinzig, whose work will shape scholarship for the foreseeable future.
Wolfram Kinzig studied Evangelical Theology and Latin in Heidelberg and Lausanne. He completed both his PhD in theology and his Habilitation in Church History in Heidelberg. From 1985 until 1986 he was a Graduate Visiting Student in Christ Church, Oxford, followed by a Visiting Studentship in Trinity College, Cambridge (1986-7), a Research Fellowship in Peterhouse, Cambridge (1988-92), and a Senior Research Fellowship in King's College, Cambridge (1992-5). Since 1996 he has held the Chair of Church History (patristics) at the Evangelical-Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn. He is also the founder and speaker (director) of the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) at his university.