Abstract:
The present century has seen an increasing opposition to creeds and doctrinal
statements of faith. The question for the church and theology is
how to read the creeds in such a way that it will not deprive us from our
own responsibility to Scripture. In order to do just that a reinterpretation
of the creeds is necessary. In this reinterpretation there should be
a recognition of historical and cultural relativity. We do not experience
our world in the same way as premodern people did. Any attempt to
leave ecclesiastical doctrines in an unchangeable form would result in
the increasing loss of the meanings of those doctrines.
