"As Christians united in Christ, we are connected to the past, and we have an obligation to learn from it, especially when it comes to summaries of our faith. This volume collects faithful summaries from our ecumenical Christian heritage and from different Protestant traditions that were born out of the Reformation. Because of our union in Christ, we must not only glean wisdom from past generations, but we must also guard it for future generations. The beauty of creeds, confessions, and catechism is that they do just that. The following confessional statements are included in this volume: Apostles' Creed (second century) Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (325/381) Definition of Chalcedon (451) Athanasian Creed (fifth century) Luther's Small Catechism (1529) Augsburg Confession (1530) First Helvetic Confession (1536) Catechism of the Church of Geneva (1542) French Confession of Faith (1559) Scots Confession (1560) Belgic Confession (1561) Thirty-Nine Articles (1563) Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Second Helvetic Confession (1566) Canons of Dort (1618-19) Westminster Confession of Faith (1646-47) Westminster Larger Catechism (1646-47) Westminster Shorter Catechism (1646-47) Savoy Declaration (1658) Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)"--