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Around 392 Theodore of Mopsuestia delivered his homilies to candidates for baptism. Using Theodore's homilies, this work studies the reception and influence of the Nicene Creed in the imperial church since Theodosius. Passed at Nicaea in 325, the Creed became an official dogma of the empire in 380/81. What was its role in the life of the church and in the theological controversies of the subsequent years? At which point did the people start to pay attention to its exact original wording? To which extent were Theodore's theological teachings influenced by the trinitarian dogma of Nicaea? The text of Theodore's Baptismal Creed is reconstructed in both its Syriac and Greek versions. It proves to be one of the most important sources of the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

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' This doctoral dissertation is much to be welcomed'<br>L.R. Wickham, Journal of Theological Studies, 2001.<br>

' This doctoral dissertation is much to be welcomed ' L.R. Wickham, Journal of Theological Studies , 2001.

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Simon Gerber, Dr. Theol. (1998), University of Kiel, studied at Tübingen, Göttingen, and Kiel. In 1998/99 he was Lecturer of Church History (History of dogma and Patristics) at the University of Tartu (Estonia).

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