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Congdon, David. "Jesus and Faith: The Doctrine of Faith in Scripture and the Reformed Confessions." Journal of Reformed Theology 3, no. 3 (2009): 321–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187251609x12559402787119.

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AbstractThis article examines the complicated relationship between church confession and Holy Scripture as it manifests itself in the doctrine of faith expounded in the Reformed confessions of the sixteenth century. I first locate the problem historically in the conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism. I then summarize the New Testament witness to faith, examine whether the Reformed confessions do justice to this witness, and conclude by suggesting some theological possibilities for a fresh doctrine of faith within the context of a confessional and biblical Reformed theology. Along the way, I raise questions about the relationships between divine action and human action and between Son and Spirit in the event of faith.

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Lillback, Peter. "THE ABIDING LEGACY OF THE REFORMATION’S CONFESSIONAL ORTHODOXY: THE REQUIRED VOWS OF WESTMINSTER SEMINARY PROFESSORS AND NAPARC MINISTERS." VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI 7, no. 1 (April 20, 2020): 41–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.51688/vc7.1.2020.art3.

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Since the Reformed faith has been characterized from its sixteenth century origins, thus for both Catholic and Protestant the century was an era characterized by faith speaking through the composition of their respective confessions of faith. This article begin to examine the problems raised by confessional subscription for Protestantism and its solutions. The various purposes for confessional subscription to the historic creeds of the Reformation and confessional subscription at Westminster Theological Seminary, and finally confessional subscription in the PCA and the OPC also discussed. This article argues that the abiding legacy of the Reformation's Confessional Orthodoxy manifested in the required vows of Westminster Seminary professors and NAPARC ministers. KEYWORDS: creeds, confessions, catechisms, Reformed.

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Blokhin, Vladimir S. "The Phenomenon of Conversion from Orthodoxy to the Armenian Faith in the Russian Empire in the 19th - early 20th Century." RUDN Journal of Russian History 19, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 766–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2020-19-4-766-780.

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The article analyzes why and how persons of the Orthodox confession converted to the Armenian faith in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian Empire. This phenomenon is linked to the practice of mixed marriages between persons belonging to the Orthodox and Armenian confessions. While the status of non-Orthodox Christian confessions in Russia during the synodal period has received a good amount of scholarly attention, not much research has been devoted to the conversion from Orthodoxy to the Armenian faith, and to the issue of marriages between persons belonging to these faiths. The present paper identifies the motives and circumstances of religious conversions and the peculiarities of mixed marriages. It does so on the basis of unpublished documents from the funds of the National Archive of the Republic of Armenia. Equally new is the authors suggestion to consider these phenomena as an integral component in the history of Russian-Armenian church relations in the period 1828-1917. Until 1905, the regulations of the Orthodox Church demanded that after the conduction of an interreligious marriage, both spouses continued to practice their respective faiths, and their children were baptized in Orthodoxy. This is reflected in the metric books of the Erivan Pokrovsky Orthodox Cathedral (1880-1885). The analysis of archival documents allows us to conclude that after 1905, most of the conversions from Orthodoxy to the Armenian faith were performed by women who intended to marry men of the Armenian confession. The reason for this phenomenon is that interreligious marriages and the baptism of children born from mixed couples was still in the competence of the Russian Orthodox Church. Only if both partners belonged to the Armenian faith, the wedding could take place in the Armenian Church, and their children were brought up in the Armenian faith. In addition to matrimonial reasons, the article underlines some other important motives behind conversions from Orthodoxy to the Armenian confession.

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Engelbrecht, B. J. "'n Nuwe ekumeniese geloofsbelydenis?" HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 43, no. 1/2 (June 29, 1987): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v43i1/2.5727.

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A new ecumenical confession of faithRecently theologians, church leaders and even churches from all over the world expressed the desirability of a new confession of faith, preferably an ecumenical confession. The Reformed Church in America proposed a new confession with their Song of Hope. They still maintain large parts of their 16th century reformed confessions but the following motives played a role in their desire for a new confession:• The necessity to correct the existing, 'old' confessions in the light of modem scientific Bible-research, e g on the doctrine of predestination.• The need for additional confession-pronouncements on modern-day issues and experiences, unknown to the church in the 16th century.• The desirability of a new form (language) to communicate with modem man.• The sensitivity of the churches of today towards church-unity and the trends living in the oikouménè, e g their social awareness.We then proceed to treat the motives why a reformed Church überhaupt needs and forms a confession. In the light of these motives the question arises whether our Church really needs a new confession today; is the exposition of the existing confessions in theology, catechesis, preaching and modem church-hymns not enough to translate and communicate the existing confessions to modem man and to address modern-day issues?

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Dreyer, Rasmus H. C. "Confessio Tetrapolitana." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 81, no. 3 (June 3, 2019): 205–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dtt.v81i3.114705.

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This article introduces one of the alternative reformatory confessions from the Diet of Augsburg 1530, the Confessio Tetrapolitana (CT). Due to the disagreement with the Saxonian/Lutheran party at the Diet, the German imperial cities of Strasbourg, Konstanz, Memmingen and Lindau delivered their own account of faith written by the Strasbourg theologians Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito. The article describes the historical background and the political and theological position of Strasbourg and its envoys at the Augsburg Diet. A structural comparison between CT and Melanchthon’s Confessio Augustana (CA) leads to a detailed summary of the 23 articles and an investigation of the confession’s theological characteristics: 1) Its Biblicism. 2) The vagueness of the Eucharistic article (article 18). 3) The new life of the Christian and 4) the consequences regarding the community as a Christian societas. Through these paragraphs, it becomes clear that The Tetrapolitan Confession represents a typical theology of the Humanist reformation movement. On the one hand, it resembles the theology of Melanchthon in CA and the early writings of Zwingli, yet on the other hand, it differs from Zwingli’s confession of The Diet of Augsburg, his personal confession, Fidei Ratio. Thus, CT is an expression of Bucer’s theological standpoint, which is again rooted in the Strasbourg Humanist milieu with its Zwingli-inspired urban reformation theology. The article ends with a brief study of connections between Bucer and the Danish reformation both in terms of personal relations and theological similarities.

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Fesko, John Valero. "Arminius on Justification." Church History and Religious Culture 94, no. 1 (2014): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712428-09401001.

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Much attention has been drawn to Jacob Arminius’s (1560–1609) views on predestination, especially given the eventual rejection of those views by the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). However what some may not realize is that Arminius’s doctrine of justification, especially as it relates to the role and function of faith, was also a source of contention. Historically Reformed theologians viewed faith as purely instrumental in justification, whereas Arminius construed it as foundational. The difference between the two positions can be illustrated in the difference between two prepositions: justification per (through or by) faith vs. justification propter (on account of) faith. Arminius’s views were subsequently rejected by three Reformed confessions, the Canons of Dort, the Irish Articles (1615), and the Westminster Confession (1647). This essay therefore argues, pace much of the recent literature on the subject, that Arminius’s doctrine of justification is Protestant, in that it is not Roman Catholic, but it is not Reformed according to the definitions set forth by its historic confessions—this is a historical judgment, not a dogmatic one.

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Nalewaj, Aleksandra. "Janowe wyznania wiary w ujęciu Prospera Grecha." Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny 58, no. 3 (September 30, 2005): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.21906/rbl.595.

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Confessions of faith in the New Testament are the Early Church’s reply to the apostolic kerygma, which centre was Jesus and His saving work. The John’s Tradition includes many texts, which in their literature structure and theological content unmistakably indicate the confession of faith. In the Fourth Gospel and John’s Epistels, Prosper Grech has distinguished thirty-two text groups, which can be called formulae of faith in strict sense. The author has classified the formulae according to the following criteria:– verbs that introduce confessions,– Christological titles,– Jesus’ work,– Sitz im Leben of formulae.The Johannine Tradition does not include the formulae on Jesus’ Passion and Death which are so frequent in St. Paul and the Acts of the Apostles because the fourth evangelist represents the high Christology. His ideas are focusing on Incarnation, Revelation and Salvation with a universal dimension. Presence of so many homologies in the Writings of John proves that in the Early Christian era the Christological ideas were developing. In the future, the formulae of faith will contribute to the Credo of the Church.

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Kolb, Robert. "Kurshalten im Konflikt: Die an Wittenberg orientierten Siebenbürger Bekenntnisschriften und ihre Begutachtung an deutschen Universitäten (1557–1572)." Journal of Early Modern Christianity 8, no. 1 (April 14, 2020): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jemc-2021-2005.

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Abstract Groups of pastors in Siebenbürgen issued three confessions of faith between 1557 and 1572 – the Consensus Doctrinae (1557), the Brevis Confessio (1561), and the Formula pii consensus (1572) – in which they defended their view of the Lord’s Supper in line with Wittenberg teaching against medieval teaching and against challenges from Swiss Reformed theologians. These documents reflect both conditions in Siebenbürgen and the streams of thinking in the wider environment of Luther’s and Melanchthon’s followers. The Brevis Confessio was published with memoranda from four German universities and letters from several theologians supporting its formulations. The first two documents largely tend toward Luther’s expression of the doctrine of the real presence, while the third uses language employed by both Wittenberg teachers, avoiding controversial expressions. This last confession strives toward consensus among the followers of the Wittenberg preceptors.

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Strauss, Piet. "Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk en die aanvaarding van sy belydenisskrifte." STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal 1, no. 2 (January 22, 2016): 667. http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/stj.2015.v1n2.a31.

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<b>The Dutch Reformed Church and the content of the acceptance of its confessions</b> <br />In its acceptance of six confessions, the more general confessions from the early church namely the Apostolicum and the Confessions of Nicea and Athanasius as well as the Three Formulas of Unity from the Dutch Reformation, the Dutch Reformed Church follows the footsteps of the National Synod of Dordrecht in 1618-1619. It accepts the formulation or wording of faith in these documents. This wording has authority because (quia) it is according to Scripture. The same church also acknowledges the need for a Scriptural rehearsal of the confessions if needed. By using this basis for the acceptance of the confessions it takes into account the aim and purpose of these documents namely to formulate faith according to Scripture.

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Conti (book author), Brooke, and Meghan C. Swavely (review author). "Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England." Renaissance and Reformation 38, no. 3 (November 27, 2015): 197–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v38i3.26156.

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Koop, Karl. "Early seventeenth century Mennonite confessions of faith, the development of an Anabaptist tradition." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0021/NQ46671.pdf.

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Howson, Barry. "A historical and comparative study of the First and Second London Baptist Confessions of Faith with reference to the Westminster and Savoy Confessions." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23845.

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The Particular Baptists of England emerged in the middle of the seventeenth century around the time of the Revolution. The first half of this thesis looks at the history of the first two London Particular Baptist Confessions of Faith written in 1644 and 1689. It examines the history behind the making of both Confessions as well as the sources from which they drew their material. The second half of the thesis is a comparison study. Firstly, the two Baptist Confessions are compared with each other in the areas of the atonement, baptism, the Church, and religious liberty, to see if Particular Baptist beliefs had changed. Secondly, the 1689 Baptist Confession is compared with the two leading English Calvinistic Confessions of the seventeenth century, the Presbyterian Westminster Confession and the Congregationalist Savoy Declaration, in order to see their similarities and differences in the same four areas.

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Littlejohn, Murray Edward. "The narrative unity of St. Augustine's "Confessions": Augustine's journey to wisdom through faith and understanding." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7737.

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Butterworth, Alastair Gavin. "E.W. Kenyon's influence of the use of the Scriptures in the Word of Faith Movement through the teachings of Kenneth E. Hagin and Kenneth Copeland: a dogmatic study / A.G. Butterworth." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8871.

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This study deals with how E.W. Kenyon’s use of the Bible was the foundation used by Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland to build the Word of Faith Movement. Kenyon could be considered the grandfather of this movement, while Hagin can be regarded as the father and Copeland, the one on whose shoulders Hagin’s mantle has fallen since his death. It includes brief biographies of Kenyon, Hagin and Copeland and their ministries. It looks into how influential Kenyon’s use of the Bible is in developing his doctrines, which have been copied by both Hagin and Copeland and the Word of Faith's pastors throughout the world. This study is not an exhaustive examination of Kenyon’s doctrines but enough is studied to show he does not conform to traditional reformed theological hermeneutics. Kenyon’s writings date back to the early twentieth century. Hagin’s writings are from the mid- and late twentieth century, while Copeland writes from the late twentieth century to the present day. It will be shown that Hagin and Copeland copied Kenyon’s use of the Bible almost verbatim, resulting in them promoting doctrines in the Word of Faith Movement similar to his doctrines. This study deals with Kenyon’s writings in Chapter 2, while Chapter 3 deals with Hagin’s and Copeland’s teachings. Chapter 4 compares the three’s teachings from a reformed theological perspective, using literature by fairly modern-day writers on reformed theology. Chapter 5 evaluates and concludes and offers recommendations for further study. Finally, Kenyon’s and his two followers’ teachings are summarised and evaluated. The study will also examine some of the effects these teachings have on the individual who attends Word of Faith Movement churches. Future research topics that could help in understanding the attraction these teachings have for people and the danger they pose to reformed churches today are suggested.
Thesis (MA (Dogmatics))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.

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Pociūtė, Abukevičienė Dainora. "Reformacija ir religinės minties plėtra Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090507_135221-33318.

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Habilitacijos procedūrai teikiamoje mokslo darbų apžvalgoje „Reformacija ir religinės minties plėtra Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaištystėje“ aptariama monografija Maištininkų katedros. Ankstyvoji reformacija ir lietuvių-italų evangelikų ryšai (2008) bei mokslo straipsniai, nagrinėjantys LDK reformacijos ir protestantų literatūros problemas. Pagrindinis mokslinės analizės chronologinis objektas – ankstyvojo LDK reformacijos etapo kultūros procesai (XVI a. 5-6 dešimtmetis), tačiau analizuojami ir kai kurie vėlesni, XVI a. antros pusės – XVII a. pirmos pusės protestantų literatūros ir kultūros raidos ypatumai. Tai tarpdalykinis tyrimas, integruojantis LDK kultūros, bažnyčių ir konfesijų bei literatūros istorijos tyrimų užduotis. Pagrindinės analizuojamos temos: reformacijos pradžia Lietuvoje ir Lietuvos evangeliškosios minties pradininko Abraomo Kulviečio intelektualinė biografija; du ankstyvieji LDK evangelikų išpažinimai (Kulviečio Confessio fidei, 1543) bei Mikalojaus Radvilos Juodojo atsakymas popiežiaus nuncijui Aloisijui Lippomanui (Duae epistolae, 1556); lietuvių ir italų evangelikų ryšiai bei Italijos protestantizmo vaidmuo ankstyvojoje LDK reformacijoje; Italijos disidentų Bernardino Ochino ir Piero Paolo Vergerijaus ryšiai su Lietuva; Lietuvos evangelikų konfesinio identiteto raida ir santykiai su Vakarų liuteronų ir kalvinistų ortodoksija; LDK evangelikų oficialiosios bažnytinės literatūros (katekizmų, giesmynų) šaltiniai ir raidos bruožai; trinitoristinės polemikos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
The review of the scholarly publications by Dainora Pociūtė „Reformation and the Development of the Confessional Thought in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania“, which has been submitted for the habilitation procedure, discusses the monograph of the said author titled Rebellious Cathedrals. Early Reformation and the contacts between Lithuanian and Italian Evangelicals (2008) as well as her various scholarly papers on the topic of Reformation and Protestant literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL). The main subject of her study deals with the cultural processes of the early Reformation of GDL (the first two decades of the Reformation); however some aspects of the later development of Protestant literature and culture at the second half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century have also been taken into consideration. This interdisciplinary research integrates the issues and concerns of the history of culture, churches, confessions and literature of GDL. The main issues of the research are: the beginning of the Reformation in Lithuania and the reconstruction of the intellectual biography of Abraomas Kulvietis (Abraham Culvensis Gynvilionis), the pioneer of Lithuanian Evangelical thought; the two early Lithuanian confessions of Evangelical faith: Confessio fidei by Culvensis (1543) and Radziwiłł the Black’s answer to the Papal Nuncio Aloisio Lippomano (Duae epistolae, 1556); the links between Lithuanian and Italian Evangelicals and the role of the Italians in... [to full text]

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Souza, Adailson Nascimento. "Conhecimento de Deus como Íntimo Meu na memória no livro X das Confissões de Santo Agostinho." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1938.

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The current dissertation investigates the knowledge of God as My Innermost Self in the memory, having as reference the Confessions, book X. Following the Augustinian view, here we intend to analyze which is the type of knowledge possible to men, and where to find it. For the Bishop of Hippo, only through the foundation of the christian faith a knowledge of God would be accessible. Considering the studied book, that access will be possible when a path in the memory is traversed, based in three actions - one exterior, another interior, and finally a superior. It is through these actions that the human being could know God in his most intimate place that we do not know of, but that exists inside every single men. By making use of authors such as Johannes Brachtendorf, Peter Brown, Philoteus Boehner and Joel Gracioso, this research seeks to concentrate in the referred question, tracing in an objective way all biographic influences that inspired Saint Augustine to achieve his conviction that God is more Intimate of me than I am of Him
A presente dissertação investiga o conhecimento de Deus como Íntimo Meu na memória, tomando como referência o livro X das Confissões. Seguindo a visão agostiniana, aqui pretendemos analisar qual o tipo de conhecimento possível ao homem, e onde encontrar tal conhecimento. Para o bispo de Hipona, somente através da fundamentação da fé cristã seria acessível um conhecimento de Deus. De acordo com o livro referido, esse acesso será possível quando for realizada uma trajetória na memória pautada em três ações - uma exterior, uma interior, e uma superior. Fazendo uso dessas ações é que o ser humano poderia conhecer a Deus no lugar mais íntimo e que desconhecemos, mas que existe dentro de cada um. Acolhendo como norte teórico autores como Johannes Brachtendorf, Peter Brown, Philoteus Boehner e Joel Gracioso, esta pesquisa procura se concentrar na referida questão, traçando de forma objetiva as influências biográficas que contribuíram para que Santo Agostinho pudesse chegar à sua convicção de que Deus é mais Íntimo de mim, do que eu sou d‟Ele

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Milne, Garnet Howard, and n/a. "The Westminster confession of faith and the cessation of special revelation." University of Otago. Department of Theology and Religious Studies, 2005. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070201.162915.

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The Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF), drawn up in London in the 1640s, has been one of the most influential confessions in the history of Reformed theology. It has occupied a very significant place in the life of a great many Protestant churches since the seventeenth century, and continues to serve as a chief subordinate standard in several major denominations today. In the opening chapter of the Confession, the divines of Westminster included a clause which implied that there would no longer be any supernatural revelation from God for showing humankind the way of salvation. Means by which God had once communicated the divine will concerning salvation, such as dreams, visions, and the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, were said to be no longer applicable. However, many of the authors of the WCF accepted that "prophecy" continued in their time, and a number of them apparently believed that disclosure of God�s will through dreams, visions, and angelic communication remained possible. How is the "cessationist" clause of WCF 1:1 to be read in the light of these facts? Was it intended as a strict denial of the possibility that any supernatural revelation for the purposes of salvation could take place after the apostolic period, or did its authors, as some modern scholars have argued, allow for a more flexible view, in which such divine revelation through extraordinary means might still take place? This thesis explores these questions in the light of the modern debates over the interpretation of the Confession�s language and its implications for the church today. It considers the difference between "mediate" and "immediate" revelation as understood by the Westminster divines, and attempts to show that only "immediate" revelation was considered to have ceased, while "mediate" revelation, which always involved Scripture, was held to continue. A detailed analysis of the writings of the Westminster divines reveals that these churchmen possessed both a strong desire to maintain the unity of Word and Spirit and a concern to safeguard the freedom of the Holy Spirit to speak to particular circumstances through the language and principles of Scripture. God still enabled predictive prophecy and spoke to individuals in extraordinary ways, but contemporary prophecy was held to be something distinct from the prophecy of New Testament figures. In the minds of both the Scottish Presbyterians and English Puritans, prophecy was considered to be an application of Scripture for a specific situation, not an announcement of new information not contained within the Bible. The Scriptures always remained essential for the process of discerning God�s will. The Introduction to the thesis considers the debate over WCF 1:1 in its modern setting. Chapter One outlines the socio-political and theological context of the Westminster Assembly, and discusses the question of how to assess the respective contributions of the divines to the documents it produced. Chapter Two investigates the Westminster view of the necessity and scope of special revelation, and discusses the nature of the "salvation" which was conveyed by this means. Chapter Three surveys the exegetical traditions underpinning the teaching that former modalities of supernatural revelation had ceased. Chapter Four seeks to respond to modern claims that Puritan theology allowed for a "continuationist" position, by canvassing evidence both from seventeenth-century Reformed thinkers themselves and from their critics, who maintained that Westminster orthodoxy was indeed cessationist in style. Chapters Five and Six explore the claims to and explanations for "prophecy" in Reformed theology in both England and Scotland in the seventeenth century. Chapter Seven examines the question of the theological status of the Westminster Confession in its own time. To what extent were subscription requirements envisaged by the Assembly and the governments of the day, and what form did these requirements take? The thesis concludes that the Westminster divines intended the cessationist clause to affirm that there was to be no more extra-biblical, "immediate" revelation for any purpose now that the church possessed the completed Scriptures. The written Word of God was fully capable of showing the way of "salvation" in its wider scope as either temporal or eternal deliverance. At the same time the divines did not intend to deny that God could still speak through special providences that might involve dreams or the ministry of angels, for example, but such revelation was always to be considered "mediate". The primary means was held to be the written Scriptures, illuminated by the Holy Spirit. The unity of the Word and Spirit was maintained, and God�s freedom to address individual circumstances remained intact.

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Tilstra, Raymond. "Raising the value of confession of faith in a Reformed Church in America." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Geracie, Patrick C. "A biblical and historical examination of the positive confession movement." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Kwok, Eddie. "The doctrine of justification by faith in the Augsburg Confession and its relationship to Christian discipleship." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399849.

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Books on the topic "Confessions of faith"

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Lumpkin, William Latane. Baptist confessions of faith. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2011.

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Beyond belief: Cartoon confessions of faith. Chicago, Ill: Cornerstone Press Chicago, 1994.

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Forgive us: Confessions of a compromised faith. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2014.

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Boyett, Jason. O me of little faith: True confessions of a spiritual weakling. Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan, 2010.

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O me of little faith: True confessions of a spiritual weakling. Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan, 2010.

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McHugh, Joan Carter. Feast of faith: Confessions of a eucharistisc pilgrim. Lake Forest, Ill: Witness, 1994.

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Allen, Ray. Our common faith: The confessions of an ordinary pastor. [Blacksburg, Va.]: R.F. Allen, 1990.

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Augustine. Confessions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Augustine. Confessions. London: Penguin Group UK, 2010.

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Augustine. Confessions. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Confessions of faith"

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Gehrt, Daniel. "Private Confessions? Inner-Lutheran Controversies and Confessions of Faith in the Name of Lay Nobility." In Bekennen und Bekenntnis im Kontext der Wittenberger Reformation, 115–58. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666570957.115.

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Adams, Nicholas. "Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition." In The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, 209–22. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996690.ch16.

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Hand, Michael. "On the Idea of Non-Confessional Faith-Based Education." In International Handbook of Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith-Based Schools, 193–205. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8972-1_10.

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"Confessing The Faith And Confessions Of Faith." In Christian Identity, 151–67. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004158061.i-514.72.

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"Confessing the Faith and Confessions of Faith." In Confessing the Faith Yesterday and Today, 5–22. The Lutterworth Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1cgf1dr.5.

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Schainker, Ellie R. "Jewish Christian Sects in Southern Russia." In Confessions of the Shtetl. Stanford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804798280.003.0007.

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Chapter 6 charts the proliferation of Jewish-Christian sects in southern Russia in the 1880s and the confessional journeys of their leaders and adherents who were in conversation with contemporary sectarian and revolutionary political movements. These sects provided a forum for a cross-cultural conversation in the public press on Jewish and Russian fears of conversion, cultural hybridity, and trespassing the boundaries of imperial confessions. The liminal space occupied by the sects highlighted the tension between tolerated confession and personal faith in the empire, and the question of where converts and schismatics communally belonged.

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Bierma, Lyle D. "Baptismal Efficacy in the Reformed Confessions." In Font of Pardon and New Life, 175–240. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197553879.003.0008.

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Chapter Abstract: To round out the narrative of this book, this chapter examines the impact of Calvin’s doctrine of baptismal efficacy on the codification of Reformed theology in eight major statements of faith. Six are from the era of the great national confessions (c. 1555–70), which straddled the death of Calvin in 1564: the French [Gallican] Confession (1559), the Scots Confession (1560), the Belgic Confession (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), and the Thirty-Nine Articles (1571). The other two are a well-known pair of English doctrinal statements from the mid-seventeenth century: the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) and Westminster Larger Catechism (1647). The chapter concludes that most of these confessions display Calvinian features in their doctrines of baptismal efficacy. Only the Heidelberg Catechism and Second Helvetic Confession do not go beyond symbolic parallelism to symbolic instrumentalism—another indication of the theological diversity within early Reformed Protestantism.

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Schainker, Ellie R. "The Genesis of Confessional Choice." In Confessions of the Shtetl. Stanford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804798280.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 charts the institutionalization of confessional difference in the Russian Empire, from Tsar Alexander I and the genesis of confessional choice for Jews in 1817, to freedom of conscience measures instituted by Tsar Nicholas II in the wake of the 1905 revolution, which allowed Jewish converts to all tolerated confessions to legally reclaim their ancestral faith. The chapter uses the 1820 conversion to Catholicism of Moshe Schneerson, scion to the Chabad Hasidic dynasty, to illustrate the conditions in pre-reform imperial Russia (1817-1855) that shaped the conversion landscape for Jews. The tsarist state’s missionary impulse was tempered by religious toleration and the empire’s increasing patronage and sponsorship of a variety of Christian and non-Christian religions. The Schneerson case also highlights how contemporary Jews actively engaged with the problem of Jewish conversion and leveraged their confessional status to vie with the state for control over apostasy and communal belonging.

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Hazlett, Ian. "Reformed Theology in Confessions and Catechisms to c.1620." In The History of Scottish Theology, Volume I, 189–209. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759331.003.0014.

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After initial discussion of some problematical aspects in the adoption of Reformed theology in Scotland, this chapter will identify, describe, and evaluate Scottish confessions of faith, catechisms, and other pedagogic texts in the Reformation era from 1560 to c.1620. In doing this, it will firstly characterize the relatively diverse nature of European Reformed theology and confessional statements from which Scottish manifestations derive, and then assess them individually in the light of that wider tradition including the emerging covenant theology. In addition, the chapter will suggest that the most formative confessions and catechisms for theologians in Scotland were not so much the domestic ones as the major productions from elsewhere and used commonly in the Reformed world. It will also demonstrate that in the Scottish confessional and catechetical texts the directly formative influence is Calvin, while acknowledging ideas associated with Zurich, Heidelberg, and Dort.

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"Chapter 4. Thomas Browne’s Uneasy Confession of Faith." In Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England, 110–36. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812209211.110.

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Reports on the topic "Confessions of faith"

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Mandaville, Peter. Worlding the Inward Dimensions of Islam. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.003.20.

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Muqtedar Khan’s Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan is, above all, an expression of faith.[1] This does not mean that we should engage it as a confessional text — although it certainly is one at some level — or that it necessitates or assumes a particular faith positionality on the part of its reader. Rather, Khan seeks here to build a vision and conception of Islamic governance that does not depend on compliance with or fidelity to some outward standard — whether that be European political liberalism or madhhabi requirements. Instead, he draws on concepts, values, and virtues commonly associated with Islam’s more inward dimensions to propose a strikingly original political philosophy: one that makes worldly that which has traditionally been kept apart from the world. More specifically, Khan locates the basis of a new kind of Islamic politics within the Qur’anic and Prophetic injunction of ihsan, which implies beautification, excellence, or perfection — conventionally understood as primarily spiritual in nature. However, this is not a politics that concerns itself with domination (the pursuit, retention, and maximization of power); it is neither narrowly focused on building governmental structures that supposedly correspond with divine diktat nor understood as contestation or competition. This is, as the book’s subtitle suggests, a pathway to a philosophy of the political which defines the latter in terms of searching for the Good.

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