In that book the author challenges the slogan “No creed but the Bible" (no authoritative confessional texts besides the Bible) — a position that is prevalent in many denominations and congregations. He now turns the tables: there is firm biblical basis to demand the formulation of creeds (hence the book‘s title: it is an imperative).
Carl Trueman (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has written more than a dozen books, including Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History, Luther on the Christian Life, The Creedal Imperative, and The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution.
