By Schubert Ogden
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1. Following my analysis and interpretation of the Apostles' Creed, I distinguish these levels in the case of credenda, or things to be believed, as follows:
(1) the formulations of things to be believed;
(2) the things to be believed themselves, whose formulations (and reformulations) are always only more or less adequate; and
(3) the faith that necessarily implies these things to be believed and that they imply in turn as our authentic possibility of self-understanding.
2. Assuming that faith necessarily implies agenda,or things to be done, as well as credenda, or things to be believed, one can and must distinguish further:
(1) the prescriptions of things to be done, which necessarily involve some empirical beliefs, true or false;
(2) the things to be done themselves, whose prescriptions (and represcriptions) are always only more or less adequate and may even involve some false empirical beliefs; and
(3) the faith that necessarily implies these things to be done and that they imply in turn as our authentic possibility of self-understanding.
n.d.; rev. 19 August 2003