Interesting. (Genuinely interesting, not "interesting" as in usenet-ese for "you're wrong"!) I'm wandering around the web right now looking for anything even vaguely definitive, and failing to find it (and getting distracted by Wikipedia).
Anecdotal evidence may not count for much, but we always used the Apostles' creed at Coll. Pemb. Oxon. (Anglican, obv., but with high church pretensions) -- except for communion, when we used the Nicene creed. It sounds from the CofE's website as though either is valid.
The assertion on Wikipedia that use of the Apostles' creed "appears to be restricted to churches whose rituals are derived of the Latin rite" may be relevant here, but I'm not sure whether they're talking about the choice of language, or *cough* Romish tendencies. Or whether it's the same thing. But Pembroke would have done the whole service in Latin* if it could have got away with it.
* or nearest equivalent. (I remember one hapless choir member asking if we would be doing the Kyrie eleison in English or Latin, and receiving a withering stare before being told "In Greek".)
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Date: 2005-10-17 12:30 pm (UTC)Anecdotal evidence may not count for much, but we always used the Apostles' creed at Coll. Pemb. Oxon. (Anglican, obv., but with high church pretensions) -- except for communion, when we used the Nicene creed. It sounds from the CofE's website as though either is valid.
The assertion on Wikipedia that use of the Apostles' creed "appears to be restricted to churches whose rituals are derived of the Latin rite" may be relevant here, but I'm not sure whether they're talking about the choice of language, or *cough* Romish tendencies. Or whether it's the same thing. But Pembroke would have done the whole service in Latin* if it could have got away with it.
* or nearest equivalent. (I remember one hapless choir member asking if we would be doing the Kyrie eleison in English or Latin, and receiving a withering stare before being told "In Greek".)
Further reading:
Wikipedia: Apostles' creed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles_Creed); Nicene Creed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed)
CofE: Creeds and Authorised Affirmations of Faith (http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/word/creeds.html)