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Book Review: What Christians Ought to Believe: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine through the Apostles’ Creed

Book Review: What Christians Ought to Believe: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine through the... ATR/99.4 Book Reviews 815 What Christians Ought to Believe: An Introduction to Christian Doc- trine through the Apostles’ Creed. By Michael F. Bird. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2016. 239 pp. $18.63 (cloth). In his most recent book, evangelical theologian Michael Bird offers a learned yet lively primer on the Christian faith through the lens of the Apos- tles’ Creed. The book’s accessibility serves an audience not likely to wade through his recently published Evangelical Theology, a 900-page tome of systematic theology. In What Christians Ought to Believe, Bird has two over- arching goals. First, he attempts to demonstrate the Creed’s usefulness for faith formation and spiritual development. Second, and most importantly, he sets out to explain each doctrine confessed in the Apostle’s Creed. Bird accomplishes both of these goals with an impressive scholarly acumen com- bined with a disarming, conversational style. In the opening two chapters of the book, Bird makes the case for why Christians should have high regard for the Creed. His intended audience here is evangelicals and other conservative Christians who are either un- aware of the historic creeds or suspicious of them. Bird notes the presence of creeds within the biblical text itself (for example, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: What Christians Ought to Believe: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine through the Apostles’ Creed

Morgan, Jonathan
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 99 (4): 1 – Aug 25, 2021
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ATR/99.4 Book Reviews 815 What Christians Ought to Believe: An Introduction to Christian Doc- trine through the Apostles’ Creed. By Michael F. Bird. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2016. 239 pp. $18.63 (cloth). In his most recent book, evangelical theologian Michael Bird offers a learned yet lively primer on the Christian faith through the lens of the Apos- tles’ Creed. The book’s accessibility serves an audience not likely to wade through his recently published Evangelical Theology, a 900-page tome of systematic theology. In What Christians Ought to Believe, Bird has two over- arching goals. First, he attempts to demonstrate the Creed’s usefulness for faith formation and spiritual development. Second, and most importantly, he sets out to explain each doctrine confessed in the Apostle’s Creed. Bird accomplishes both of these goals with an impressive scholarly acumen com- bined with a disarming, conversational style. In the opening two chapters of the book, Bird makes the case for why Christians should have high regard for the Creed. His intended audience here is evangelicals and other conservative Christians who are either un- aware of the historic creeds or suspicious of them. Bird notes the presence of creeds within the biblical text itself (for example,

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