Quicunque vult
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Etymology edit
From Ecclesiastical Latin quīcunque vult (salvus esse …) (“whoever will (be saved …)”), the opening words of the creed.
Proper noun edit
the Quicunque vult
- (Christianity) The Athanasian Creed.
- Synonym: Quicunque
- 1728, Daniel Waterland, A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed […], 2nd edition, page 45:
- Robertus Paululus, Presbyter of Amiens, in the Diocess of Rheims, speaking of the Offices recited at the Prime, observes that the Piety of good Christians had thereunto added the Quicunque vult, that the Articles necessary to salvation might never be forgotten any hour of the Day.
- 1885, Edmund S. Ffoulkes, Primitive Consecration of the Eucharistic Oblation: With an Earnest Appeal for Its Revival, page 314:
- Nobody can deny that Creed to have been published under the name of Charlemagne: nor, till an earlier work of undoubted authenticity can be produced where the ‘Quicunque vult’ is designated ‘the Faith’ or ‘Creed of S. Athanasius,’ can anybody deny Charlemagne to have been the first in whose writings, or the writing of persons acting under him, it is ascribed—and ascribed falsely—to S. Athanasius, and paraded as a Creed possessing all the authority that would attach justly to his name.
- 2020, John Caldwell, “The Development of the Latin Liturgical Psalter in England”, in Tess Knighton, David Skinner, editors, Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages […], →ISBN, page 164:
- Monday Vespers is interrupted first by the materials for Prime, with psalm 117 […] and the Quicunque vult with a selection of antiphons.