Orthodoxy contin.

The Orthodox and Eastern Church has no creeds in the modern western use of the word, no normative summaries of what must be believed. It has preserved the older idea that a creed is an adoring confession of the Church engaged in worship. The eastern creeds may thus be placed in two classes – the ecumenical creeds of the early undivided church, and later testimonies defining the position of the Orthodox Church of the east with regard to the belief of the Roman Catholic and of the Protestant Churches. The first four councils settled the Orthodox faith on the doctrines of the Trinity and of the two natures of the one person of Christ; the fifth supplemented the decisions of the first four.