藉著積極信德年的精神，教宗本篤十六世邀請在世界各地的天主教教徒對其教理與信仰進行研究與深化。為了要達到既有效又有意義的成果，在實踐這樣的研究和深化時，必須要考慮到不同的生活脈絡的特殊性。不同的生活脈絡會激起不同的自我理解問題，也塑造不同的信仰生活方式。在理論上天主教是一個普世信仰，不過事實上，該信仰乃是透過具體、局部、可見和在地的信仰群體中所實踐出來的。
在台灣，天主教徒是屬於極少數的分子，他們面臨著來自於周圍不同的宗教傳統與文化根深蒂固的多重挑戰。在台灣想要成為一位研究並深化自己信仰的天主教信徒，必須──在理論與實踐上──面對許多（無言的）質問，即：在台灣宗教界有那麼豐富的在地信仰，他必須為自己的宗教選擇與信念做出辯解。
從傳統以來，天主教信仰就是初期教會將信徒們的信念與教義綜合之後，制定而傳承下來的。《信經》以簡潔的類型方式集結而成，一直被視為是基督信仰與教理的「官方總結」。就像在早期教會，《信經》在普世教會還被用來講道、教化信徒、護教、定義教理，而作為信仰的簡明表達方式。由於意識到台灣文化與宗教多元對於教徒所形成的挑戰，本文試圖對《信經》──特別對《宗徒信經》的最後四條──進行一種脈絡化的詮釋。

During the Year of Faith, a concreted invitation has been launched to Catholics, calling them to study and deepen aspects of the Catholic doctrine and faith. In order to be effective and meaningful, this call needs to take into account the peculiarities of the context in which the study and deepening are carried out. Context fuels questions pertaining to self-understanding; it shapes ways of living faith. Though universal, the Catholic faith is made visible in concrete, localized and contextualized faith communities.
In Taiwan, Catholics are a tiny minority faced with multifaceted challenges emanating from surrounding and deeply rooted religious traditions. To be a Catholic studying and deepening one’s faith in Taiwan, it is necessary to face－in theoretical and practical ways－(unspoken) requests for justification of one’s religious choices and convictions in the concert of many other existing lived faith expressions.
From tradition, the Catholic faith was formulated and handed down through articles synthesizing both the doctrine and faith convictions of believers. Patterned in a concise way, creeds have been held as “official summaries” of Christian convictions and doctrines. In fact, as in early church, creeds are used throughout the universal church for preaching, teaching, defending and defining Christian doctrine, as concise ways of confessing the faith. The present reflection aims at a contextualized interpretation of the creed with an emphasis on the last four articles of the Apostles’ Creed. This is done in the light and awareness of challenges emanating from the context of cultural and religious plurality of Taiwan－challenges which define the cadre in which Taiwanese lay Catholics live and proclaim their faith.