Congregationalism

Church Polity

By Manny Pereira Church Government

An introduction to biblical church government and the episcopal, presbyterian, and congregational models that developed after the Reformation.

#Martin Luther #Congregationalism #England #Henry VIII #John Calvin

Church Polity and Politics

By Manny Pereira Church Government

How Protestant forms of church government shaped political habits, representation, councils, local authority, and resistance to hierarchy.

#Church Government #Episcopacy #Presbyterianism #Congregationalism #Church and State

The Westminster Shorter Catechism

Catechisms

The Westminster Shorter Catechism of 1647: the Assembly that produced it, its two halves, and a close reading of the first question — eleven words that have shaped Reformed piety for four centuries.

#Catechisms #Westminster Shorter Catechism #England #Scotland #Congregationalism #John Calvin #Martin Luther

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646/1647)

Reformed Confessions

An introduction to the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646/1647): its background in the struggle between King and Parliament, its place in the long English and Scottish Reformation, the convictions that drove it, and what it cost the men who made and kept it.

#Confessions of Faith #Creeds #Westminster Confession #England #Scotland #Arminianism #Westminster Assembly #Congregationalism