the rule of faith
idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
authority of the churches · that rule · the head of the faith · the rule · this law of faith · this rule
spoken of as
1 expressionRule of Faith2 mentions
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum (Latin) · De Virginibus Velandis (Latin)
If these things are so, that the truth is adjudged to us — whoever walk in that rule which the Church received from the apostles, the apostles from Christ, Christ from God — the reasoning of our proposition stands firm, which defines that the heretics are not to be admitted to enter upon a challenge from the Scriptures, whom we prove, without the Scriptures, to have no concern with the Scriptures.
in the texts
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
The fixed creedal rule of faith instituted by Christ, the boundary of legitimate Christian belief and inquiry.
Let us seek, then, in our own, and from our own, and concerning our own — and that only which can come into question while the rule of faith is kept safe.
Now the rule of faith — that we may here at once profess what we maintain — is that by which it is believed that there is one only God, and none other beside the Maker of the world, who produced all things out of nothing through his Word, sent forth first of all;
To know nothing against the rule is to know all things.
Adversus Marcionem
The shared core doctrine and chain of apostolic transmission used as the criterion for authenticating scripture.
These compendious methods, more or less, we use when we are extricating ourselves against the heretics concerning the faith of the gospel — pleading both the order of times that prescribes against the lateness of falsifiers, and the authority of the churches that gives patronage to the tradition of the apostles, because the truth must precede the false, and must proceed from those by whom it was handed down.
For let it be his own concern if the arrangement of the narratives has varied, provided there is agreement on the head of the faith, on which there is no agreement with Marcion.
As regards, then, the gospel of Luke for the present — inasmuch as its communion between us and Marcion is disputed about the truth — so much more ancient than Marcion is that which is according to us, that Marcion himself once believed in it, when in the first heat of faith he contributed money to the catholic Church, money soon flung out along with himself, after he revolted into his heresy from our truth.
De Virginibus Velandis
The fixed core of Christian belief (Creed-like formula), unlike matters of discipline which can develop
The rule of faith, indeed, is altogether one, alone immovable and unalterable: