In the 17th century, it narrowed its focus, for reasons that I'm exploring in a book I'm writing at the moment, to include — to mean an intellectual assent to a set of propositions, a credo. "I believe:" it did not mean, "I accept certain creedal articles of faith." It meant: "I commit myself.
En el siglo XVII se redujo su alcance por razones que estoy investigando para el libro que escribo ahora, y pasó a significar un ascenso intelectual a una serie de proposiciones: un credo. "Creo" no significaba "acepto determinados credos de fe".