The creed occurs as statement of belief—usually religious belief—or faith.a word derives from either the Latin credo for I think.

Christian creeds
Christianity, affirming that God has been begotten and manifest in the human Jesus, has formulated a total of statements of faith that search to put its doctrine in a nutshell.

In that feel, perchance a earliest statement of Christian faith is the shibboleth affirming that Jesus is LORD, which appears in St Paul's Epistle to the Romans 10:9. A meaning & importance of this shibboleth comes from either its affirmation that Jesus Christ is the fully revelation of the God Yahweh of Judaism made incarnate, a philosophical system thought impossible & indeed blasphemous by the rest of the Jewish community.

When Christianity wrestled by using a implications of this statement, its underdeveloped theology required more complex formulations.

Apostles' Creed
These are probably that a earliest creed of Christianity that deserves a title fully is the Apostles' Creed. Christian mythology attributes this creed to all dozen Apostles as a joint composition, and assigns a single sentence of the creed to every Apostle. This attribution is unconvincing, however the creed itself is quite old; it seems to use developed from either a catechism used in the baptism of adults, and in this form may be traced when far back when a second century. A Apostles' Creed seems to own been formulated to resist Docetism and similar ideas associated with Gnosticism; it emphasizes the birth, physical demise, & bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

A Nicene Creed clearly derives from a Apostles' Creed, & equally apparently is an elaboration of its basic themes. A virtually all salient additions to this creed come very much further elaborate statements on Christology and the Trinity. These reflect a concerns of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 A. D., & use their principal purpose a rejection of Arianism, which the church adjudged the heresy. In the Roman Catholic liturgy the Nicene Creed is repeated during both Mass.

Christians now probably utilise a Nicene Creed virtually all widely, followed per Apostles Creed.

A creed as a catalogue of heresies
Withwithin an atmosphere of further and more complicated theological disceptation, orthodox belief will get more complicated in outline. In the decade prior to 594, Gregory, bishop of Tours set out to write the Historia Francorum ("History of the Franks"). Around Gaul, the a share of Europe recently beset by owning each royal Arians and royal pagans (until the conversion of Clovis), Gregory prefaced his history with the declaration of his faith, "so that my reader may have no doubt that I am Catholic" (Book We.i personally). the confession is around several phrases, every of which refutes a specific Christian heresy. So Gregory's creed presents, around negative, the virtual catalogue of heresies: Other creeds
Other notable creeds include the:

Athanasian Creed Chalcedonian Creed Social Creed (Methodist) The Masai Creed is a creed composed in about 1960 by Western Christian missionaries for the Masai people of East Africa. The missionaries were from the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. The creed attempts to express the essentials of the Christian faith within the Masai culture.

Islamic creeds
The most basic attempt to put the religion of Islam in a brief statement of doctrine is the shahada, the proclamation that there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His prophet.

More detailed credal declarations of Islamic dogma constitute aqidah.