[Sca-cooks] Soft-boiled eggs in period

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sun Oct 27 15:33:26 PST 2002


Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>Brighid ni Chiarain asked:
>>Mea culpa.  (I'm Jewish, okay?  Most of what I know about the
>>Credo comes from singing in my college chorus.)  I meant the
>>Nicene Creed.  I don't think that the Apostles' Creed would last
>>long enough to produce more than a warm, liquid egg.
>
>The confusion is understandable. I was raised Episcopalian and I'm
>not quite sure of the differance between the two, although if I
>heard or read either of them (in English) I would recognise them.

Probably. Side by side, they're pretty different. The Apostles' Creed
more or less states the basic belief system common to many Christians
(and is older than the Nicene Creed). The Nicene Creed is more like,
"This is what we believe, and no other, and if you don't buy the
package you're not a Catholic."

Interestingly enough, I've recently had various reasons for comparing
the two Creeds, the absorption of the Celtic Church by the Roman
Catholic Church after the Synod of Whitby in the seventh century
C.E., and was interested to learn that most of the [important and
distinguishing] basic belief system of the old Celtic Christian
Church (the ones who were so radical in their determination of the
date of Easter, weird monk's tonsures, and other earth-shattering
issues) seems to survive pretty well in the Churches of England (of
all places!) and Scotland, and the Episcopal Church in America.

And people thought people like Martin Luther and Henry VIII were
radically unorthodox!

Adamantius
--
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar."
	-DONALD FOSTER



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