Review of “The Creed”

Adam DeVille, the editor of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies , has a review of the First Things -produced film The Creed:

Creeds, according to this mindset—the product of feverish readings of Foucault and Nietzsche—are little more than the products of a will-to-power in which the so-called orthodox try to “discipline and punish” the so-called heterodox, these latter often being portrayed as brave but persecuted dissidents fighting, well, a proleptic version of the French or American revolutions against jack-booted bishops who have not yet encountered the Enlightenment.

The DVD offers a very vigorous defense of the importance and the centrality of the creed against its modern despisers. It is generously ecumenical in the best ways, lucidly drawing on such prominent Orthodox theologians as  John Behr , Catholic historians such as  Robert Louis Wilken , biblical scholars such as  Luke Timothy Johnson  (himself the author of a 2004 book entitled  The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters ), particle physicist  Stephen Barr , and other writers such as  Frederica Mathewes-Green .

He goes on to offer some criticism . The documentary can be purchased here .