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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.
The Confession of Faith (1689), also known as the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, [1] [2] or the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (to distinguish it from the 1644 London Baptist Confession of Faith), is a Particular Baptist confession of faith.
Second Scotch Confession (1580) Irish Articles of Religion (1615) Canons of Dordt (1618–19) Westminster Confession of Faith 1646; Savoy Declaration 1658; Helvetic Consensus (1675) Second London Confession of Faith (1677/1689) Walcheren Articles (1693) The Calvinistic Methodist Confession of Faith. (1823) Belhar Confession, Dutch Reformed ...
A creed, also known as a confession of faith, a symbol, or a statement of faith, is a statement of the shared beliefs of a community (often a religious community) which summarize its core tenets. Many Christian denominations use three creeds: the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed , the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed .
These express the doctrinal views of the churches adopting the confession. Confessions play a crucial part in the theological identity of reformed churches, either as standards to which ministers must subscribe, or more generally as accurate descriptions of their faith. Most confessions date to the 16th and 17th century.
1900 Fulton Confession of Faith (Primitive Baptists) 1923 Articles of Faith Put Forth by the Baptist Bible Union (defunct fundamentalist group within ABC) 1925 Baptist Faith and Message - revised in 1963, 1998 and 2000; 1935 Treatise on the Faith and Practice of the Free Will Baptists
Following the approval of the Confession and catechisms by the Church of Scotland in 1648, printers in England and Scotland began publishing them with other religious documents in collections referred to as the Westminster Standards. In 1658 printers began including the full Scripture passages which are cited in the confessional documents.
The French Confession of Faith (Latin: Confessio Gallicana, French: Confession de La Rochelle), also known as the Gallic Confession or the Confession of La Rochelle, is a Reformed confession of faith, [1] the official doctrinal standard of the Reformed Church of France. The Confession was adopted at the first national synod in 1559. [2]