We believe the scriptures teach that there is one, and only one, living and true God, an infinite, intelligent Spirit, whose name is Jehovah, the Maker and Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all possible honor confidence and love that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost equal in every divine perfection, executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption. 4), the truths of the Apostles' Creed are called "articles" by a sort of simile frequently used by our forefathers for as the members of the body are divided by joints ( articuli) so also in the profession of faith whatever is to be believed by us distinctly and separately from anything else we properly and appositely call an article".We believe that the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspiried and is a perfect treasure of heavenly instruction that has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter that it reveals the principals by which God will judge us, and therefore is, and shall remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions shall be tried. In the Catechism of the Council of Trent (p. De Lugo describes them as the principal or primary truths which are the basis of other revealed truths or principles.
Others say that every truth defined by the Church, or in any other manner explicitly proposed for our belief, is an article of faith.
Some would limit these articles to the contents of the Apostles' Creed. Not every revealed truth is an article of faith, nor are theologians agreed on what constitutes any truth an article of faith. They are for Christian theology what fundamental principles are for a science. Thus the articles of the Creed announce truths which are in themselves distinct from one another but parts of a complete summary of the truths which have been revealed to help us to gain our last end. Thomas Aquinas, the article of faith is any revealed supernatural truth which is distinct in itself from other such truths but which unites with them to form the organic whole of Christian teaching. Victor employed them, the latter applying them to truths having God for their object and so explicitly stated as to compel assent. The terms were not used by the Fathers or by ecclesiastical writers in the early Middle Ages. (Greek, arthron Latin, articulus, joint).Ĭertain revealed supernatural truths such as those contained in the symbol of the Apostles.
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