Issue at Hand, August 2024: Confessions

Readers this month might have expected the theme to be focused on Saint Augustine, whose book Confessions is one of the classics of Christian literature. As valuable as that exercise might be, our actual topic this month is an introduction to several of the “nonbinding” con- fessions that are commonly refer- enced within the broader Christian community. These documents rep- resent historic statements of faith that were drafted either in response to prevalent errors of the day or as a summary of...