re the nicene creed was re major views of the trinity in article may athos rutgers edu db n andrew cmu edu d andrew byler writes the so called creed of athanasius however has always been a western creed and has always had the filioque the orthodox have said that they accept all that it says with the exception of the filioque but it is not in use of course the orthodox did not delete the filioque from the nicene creed it wasn t there to begin with but they certainly did from the athanasian creed which did have it from the beginning the so called athanasian creed has never been a recognized standard of faith in the orthodox church it was introduced without the filioque in certain service books in the th and th centuries at a time when there was a strong western influence on orhtodoxy steve hayes department of missiology editorial department univ of south africa p o box pretoria south africa internet hayesstw risc unisa ac za fidonet steve hayes p f n z fidonet org faq missiology is the study of christian mission and is part of the faculty of theology at unisa
