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Carl R. Trueman’s “The Creedal Imperative” “sets out not just to tell us that the corporate use of creeds is okay; he wants to convince us that it should be expected.” Trueman makes “the case that it is at least arguable, based on Scripture, that the need for creeds and confessions is not just a practical imperative for the church but is also a biblical imperative.” The reviewer, from a “fundamental Baptist tradition which in many of its expressions actually decries creedalism,” notes Trueman’s purpose to “unmask this false disjunction” that “all embrace tradition.” Trueman argues that “Those who claim to have ‘no creed but the Bible,’ in fact, have creeds of their own,” and that “the Bible itself ‘seems to demand the production of something like a creed or confession’.” The book is described as “convincing and one of the most enjoyable reads,” and “highly recommended.”