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- Gallican Confession, Christian statement of faith adopted in 1559 in Paris by the first National Synod of the Reformed Church of France.
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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.
The Scots Confession of Faith was an important document which explained what the Reformed church believed. It was drawn up by the ‘six Johns’: Knox, Willock, Winram, Spottiswoode, Row and Douglas at the request of Parliament – in only four days.
Gallican Confession, statement of the Christian faith adopted in 1559 in Paris by the first National Synod of the Reformed Church of France. It has often been printed in French Bibles and remained the authoritative statement of faith for the French Reformed Church into the 19th century.
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In 1618, the teachings came under scrutiny at the Synod of Dort. The resulting judgments, the Canons of Dort, issued in 1619, condemned the teachings. The Canons would also join the Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism as the third confessional standard of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Mar 25, 2017 · Depending on how wide a net we cast, there were roughly forty to fifty Reformed (or Reformed-influenced) confessions written between 1520 and 1650—by far the most of any Protestant tradition.
In the Reformed tradition stemming from John Calvin (1509–64) and Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), each national church produced its own confessional documents. No one of these is authoritative for all, though some (e.g., the Heidelberg Catechism ; 1563) are widely esteemed and used.
The Westminster Confession was modified and adopted by Congregationalists in England in the form of the Savoy Declaration (1658).
