The 39 Articles of Anglicanism - Part II

Articles 1-8, "The Catholic Faith"

In the order given in the Book of Common Prayer (with a brief summary when the title is not wholly clear), they are:

I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity
that there is one God, eternal Maker of all, in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost;

II. Of the Word or Son of God, which was made very Man
that the Son took man's nature of the substance of the Virgin, so Godhead and Manhood were joined indivisibly in one Person, who truly died both for original guilt and for the actual sins of all;

III. Of the going down of Christ into Hell

IV. Of the Resurrection of Christ
that Christ truly rose from death and took again a body of flesh and bones, wherewith he ascended to heaven and sits until the Last Judgment;

V. Of the Holy Ghost
that the Holy Ghost proceeds from Father and Son, of one substance with both;

VI. Of the Sufficiency of the holy Scripture for Salvation
Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought necessary and requisite to salvation. The canonical books are then listed, with the Apocryphal (or deuterocanonical) books recommended (quoting Jerome) ''for example of life and instruction in manners; ... [but not] to establish any doctrine'

VII. Of the Old Testament
that it does not contradict the New, but Christians are bound only by the Moral Commandments, not the Mosaic Law of rites and ceremonies nor the civil precepts;

VIII. Of the Three Creeds (Nicene, Athanasian, and Apostles' Creed)