Oxford House Papers - A Series Of Papers Author:Various NO one can be at all acquainted with the feelings entertained in many quarters towards the services of the Church of England without knowing that there is a more or less continual distress or irritation caused in the minds of a considerable number of people by the recitation of what is called the Athanasian Creed. There is no special agitation o... more »n the subject at the present moment but there is always sufficient annoyance and questioning abroad to warrant the discussion of it. How can we know, people ask, that all these metaphysical and indeed hardly intelligible statements about God are true Or, How can we stand up in church and condemn to everlasting punishment those who cannot accept all these difficult propositions It is in view of such common objections as these that I am proposing to give some positive explanation of the nature, meaning, and value of the document which, for reasons which will shortly 1 IT. E 4 The A thn znsina Creed. appear, it would be better to name, like the ire Deum and other canticles, by the first words of its Latin form-the Qz iczmque z u r l t ...« less