Clivedurdle

Who says narrative results in belief? Why should not beliefs lead to a need to teach those beliefs and then the creation of stories to explain those beliefs?

Gamera

It's not a matter of who said it, it's what happened.

The gospel is a narrative. It is far from any coherent theology. The creeds are an attempt to "rationalize" the theological beliefs that supposedly flow out of the gospel narrative.

If you're saying that was a mistake, I happen to agree with you. The credalization of Christianity was the worse thing that ever happened to it (who the hell can honestly say they "understand" the trinity, for instance?)

Christianity is at its core a narrative -- the gospel narrative. The creeds are an excrescence on that narrative, with little reference to the narrative itself.