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  • Thumbnail for Catechism
    A catechism ( /ˈkætəˌkɪzəm/; from Ancient Greek: κατηχέω, "to teach orally") is a summary or exposition of doctrine and serves as a learning introduction...
    68 KB (6,375 words) - 23:08, 21 September 2024
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    The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the Douay Rheims Bible by 22 years, and...
    23 KB (2,238 words) - 07:55, 10 September 2024
  • and approved use of the Heidelberg Catechism in Dutch-speaking congregations while promoting the Geneva Catechism for French-speaking churches. Bangs...
    1 KB (117 words) - 17:42, 12 October 2023
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    John Calvin (category Clergy from the Republic of Geneva)
    Genève (Catechism of the Church of Geneva), which was inspired by Bucer's Kurze Schrifftliche Erklärung of 1534. Calvin had written an earlier catechism during...
    93 KB (11,941 words) - 10:46, 12 October 2024
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    pastors. John Calvin, a reformer, taught Latin grammar along with the Geneva catechism. Nevertheless, there were some reformers who wanted to cease using...
    18 KB (2,333 words) - 09:19, 28 July 2024
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    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...
    44 KB (5,085 words) - 07:34, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reformed confessions of faith
    (1554): 15  Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Wittenberg Catechism (1571): 21  Westminster Shorter Catechism (1649) Westminster Larger Catechism (1649) Spiritual...
    16 KB (1,481 words) - 20:50, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Continental Reformed Protestantism
    Confession (1559) Scots Confession (1560) Three forms of Unity Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Belgic Confession (1566) Canons of Dordrecht (1619) Second Helvetic...
    5 KB (508 words) - 15:48, 7 June 2024
  • of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." In his Geneva catechism, he asks, "Is baptism nothing more than a mere symbol [i.e., picture]...
    54 KB (6,558 words) - 15:18, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sergey Nechayev
    Catechism of a Revolutionary, a program for the "merciless destruction" of society and the state. The main principle of the revolutionary catechism—the...
    25 KB (3,100 words) - 15:23, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zacharias Ursinus
    best known as the principal author and interpreter of the Heidelberg Catechism. At age fifteen he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg, boarding...
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  • the Heidelberg Catechism, the Second Helvetic Confession, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Shorter Catechism, the Larger Catechism, the Theological...
    5 KB (432 words) - 06:05, 14 April 2024
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    Luther devised the catechism as a method of imparting the basics of Christianity to the congregations. In 1529, he wrote the Large Catechism, a manual for...
    153 KB (19,070 words) - 02:56, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Immanuel Tremellius
    his Annals of the World. Tremellius also translated John Calvin's Geneva Catechism into Hebrew (Paris, 1551), and wrote a "Chaldaic" and Syriac grammar...
    6 KB (728 words) - 14:05, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reformed Christianity
    Palatinate under Frederick III, which led to the formulation of the Heidelberg Catechism in 1563. This and the Belgic Confession were adopted as confessional standards...
    102 KB (11,692 words) - 11:15, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Predestination in Calvinism
    Christian Religion (1539), while living in Strasbourg after his expulsion from Geneva and consulting regularly with the Reformed theologian Martin Bucer. Calvin's...
    17 KB (2,017 words) - 11:02, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Knox
    resign his position and leave the country. Knox moved to Geneva and then to Frankfurt. In Geneva, he met John Calvin, from whom he gained experience and...
    67 KB (8,957 words) - 14:00, 12 October 2024
  • written for use in the Reformed denomination. The text was composed in Geneva in 1556 and was adopted by the Church of Scotland in 1562. In 1567, Séon...
    14 KB (1,929 words) - 19:16, 12 April 2024
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    Theodore Beza (category Theologians from the Republic of Geneva)
    Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva. Beza succeeded Calvin as the spiritual leader of the Republic of Geneva. Theodore Beza was born on 24 June...
    32 KB (3,973 words) - 18:10, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Confession of 1967
    strict subscription to only the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Catechisms campaigned against its inclusion. The Confession of 1967 was written and...
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