Lutheranism

===Trinity===
[[File:Shield-Trinity-Scutum-Fidei-English.svg|thumb|Lutherans believe in the [[Trinity]].]]
Lutherans believe in the [[Trinity]], rejecting the idea that the [[God the Father|Father]] and [[God the Son]] are merely faces of the same person, stating that both the [[Old Testament]] and the [[New Testament]] show them to be two distinct persons.<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2063:8-9;&version=50; Is. 63:8–9], Mueller, J.T., ''Christian Dogmatics''. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1934. pp. 158–160, section "The Doctrine of God", part 5. "The Holy Trinity Revealed in the Old Testament",[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Heb%201:5%20;&version=50; Heb. 1:5], see Engelder, T.E.W., ''[https://archive.org/details/MN41551ucmf_1 Popular Symbolics]''. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1934. pp. 33–36, Part VI. "The Trinity".</ref> Lutherans believe the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son.<ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/lutherantheology.filioque.html The Nicene Creed and the Filioque: A Lutheran Approach] by Rev. David Webber for more information</ref> In the words of the [[Athanasian Creed]]: "We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is all one: the glory equal, the majesty coeternal."<ref>[[Athanasian Creed]] – for an older Trinitarian Creed used by Lutherans, see the ''[[Nicene Creed]]:'' the version in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) is the 1988 ecumenical (ELLC) version. But the version in both "Lutheran Service Book" (2006) of the [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]] (LCMS) and the [[Lutheran Church Canada|Lutheran Church Canada (LCC)]] is that of the [[Book of Common Prayer (1662)|1662 ''Book of Common Prayer'']] with modernized spelling of the words "catholic" and "apostolic", with changes in capitalization of these and other words, and with "Holy Spirit" in place of "Holy Ghost".{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}</ref>