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The Westminster Confession of Faith, or simply the Westminster Confession, is a Reformed confession of faith. Drawn up by the 1646 Westminster Assembly as part of the Westminster Standards to be a confession of the Church of England, it became and remains the "subordinate standard" of doctrine in the Church of Scotland and has been influential within Presbyterian churches worldwide.
In 1643, the English Parliament called upon "learned, godly and judicious Divines" to meet at Westminster Abbey in order to provide advice on issues of worship, doctrine, government and discipline of the Church of England. Their meetings, over a period of five years, produced the confession of faith, as well as a Larger Catechism and a Shorter Catechism. For more than three hundred years, various churches around the world have adopted the confession and the catechisms as their standards of doctrine, subordinate to the Bible. For the Church of Scotland and the various denominations which spring from it directly, though, only the Confession and not the Catechisms is the subordinate standard, the Catechisms not being re-legislated in 1690.
The Westminster Confession was modified and adopted by Congregationalists in England in the form of the Savoy Declaration (1658) and by Particular Baptists in the form of the Second London Baptist Confession (1677/1689). English Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and some others, would together come to be known as Nonconformists, because they did not conform to the Act of Uniformity (1662) establishing the Church of England as the only legally approved church, though they were in many ways united by their common confessions, built on the Westminster Confession.
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The reformed confessionsoffaith are the confessional documents of various Reformed churches. These express the doctrinal views of the churches adopting...
A creed, also known as a confessionoffaith, a symbol, or a statement offaith, is a statement of the shared beliefs of a community (often a religious...
Christianity portal The Scots Confession (also called the Scots Confessionof 1560) is a ConfessionofFaith written in 1560 by six leaders of the Protestant Reformation...
Church of England into greater conformity with the Church of Scotland. The assembly also produced the WestminsterConfessionofFaith and the Westminster Larger...
Westminster ConfessionofFaith, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, the Westminster Larger Catechism, the Directory of Public Worship, and the Form of Church...
Theology is associated with Presbyterians and comes from the WestminsterConfessionofFaith. Another form is sometimes called "Baptist Covenant Theology"...
confessionoffaith. In Presbyterian denominations, this is the WestminsterConfessionofFaith, while in Confessional Lutheranism it is the Book of Concord...
came out of that council sided with infralapsarianism (Canons of Dort, First Point of Doctrine, Article 7). The WestminsterConfessionofFaith also teaches...
an organization of conservative pastors in the Southern Presbyterian Church. They sought to reaffirm the WestminsterConfessionofFaith as the fullest...
dealing with the question of the control that God exercises over the world. In the words of the WestminsterConfessionofFaith, God "freely and unchangeably...
Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches allows member churches to hold to any of the following historic confessions: WestminsterConfessionofFaith (1647)...
the Long Parliament of England called the Westminster Assembly to produce the WestminsterConfession, it also asked for a directory of "catechising". The...
election and salvation of their children whom God calls out of this life in infancy. (I.17) The WestminsterConfessionofFaith (1646) refers to "elect...
over liberty of conscience (as defined in the WestminsterConfessionofFaith), which came to a head over the attendance of Lord Mackay of Clashfern at...
the Bible and the WestminsterConfessionofFaith, and is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. The annual meeting of the church's general...
could no longer attend. It produced a new Form of Church Government, a ConfessionofFaith or statement of belief, two catechisms or manuals for religious...
Consensus Formula, the WestminsterConfessionofFaith cites Matthew 5:18 as proof text of the special providential preservation of the divinely inspired...
the faith for the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA), the "northern church", to supplement the WestminsterConfession and...
supplanted by the WestminsterConfessionofFaith, and the larger and shorter catechisms, which were formulated by the Westminster Assembly between 1643...
Apostles' Creed, the Scots Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Second Helvetic Confession, the WestminsterConfessionofFaith, the Shorter Catechism...
basis, along with the Six Forms of Unity: the WestminsterConfessionofFaith, the Belgic Confession, the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms, the...
practice of Reformed Christianity, contained in the WestminsterConfessionofFaith, of practicing exclusive psalmody, and its continuing affirmation of Jesus...
to the Word of God: the Bible. The subordinate standard of the church is the WestminsterConfessionofFaith. In 1892 the Free Church of Scotland, following...
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