Excerpt from The Athanasian Creed and Its Early Commentaries HE history of this book may be brie y told. In 1888 I obtained one of the last prizes given by Bishop Lightfoot to the Junior Clergy of Durham for an Essay on the Athanasian Creed. The Examiners encouraged me to continue my studies in this subject to which I have now devoted most of my spare time for seven years. The problem of the early history of the Creed presents difficulties which only those can gauge who have tried to test the various theories on the subject by digging down to its roots. I do not claim to have solved it, but I hope to succeed in vindicating the main argument of Dr Waterland in his classical History of the Creed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."