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The Dordrecht Confession of Faith is a statement of religious beliefs adopted by Dutch Mennonite leaders at a meeting in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, on 21 April 1632. Its 18 articles emphasize belief in salvation through Jesus Christ, baptism, nonviolence (non-resistance), withdrawing from, or shunning those who are excommunicated from the ...
In 1712, he had the Dordrecht Confession of Faith translated into English and printed. [4] In 1725, he met with sixteen other ministers from southeastern Pennsylvania and adopted the Dutch Mennonite Dordrecht Confession of Faith (1632). They also wrote the following endorsement of which he was the first to sign: [5]
Among the early volumes were a 1771 edition of the Dordrecht Confession of Faith in French translation; an inventory of the Mennonite Archives in Amsterdam; C.H. Wedel's German-language general history of the Mennonites (the first written and published in America); and Helen Reimensnyder Martin's book Tillie, a Mennonite Maid. The collection ...
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) The Confession of the Waldenses (1655) The Confession of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (1814/1883) The Confession of the Free Evangelical Church of Geneva (1848) The Confession of the Free Italian Church (1870) The Auburn Declaration (1837) Auburn Affirmation (PCUSA) (1924) Book of Confessions (PCUSA ...
The Mennonite Brethren Church holds two ordinances - baptism and the Lord's Supper. Water baptism by immersion is the mode administered by local congregations, but they may receive on confession of faith persons who have been baptized by other modes.
Conservative Mennonites uphold the following confessions of faith: The Schleitheim Confession of Faith (1527), [16] the Dordrecht Confession of Faith (1632), The Christian Fundamentals (1921) [17] adopted at Garden City, Missouri (commonly called the Garden City Confession), and the Nationwide churches also use The Hartville Restatement of the ...
In 1632, Herman op den Graeff was one of two Krefeld Mennonite Church delegates to sign the Dordrecht Confession of Faith. [16] In Krefeld he worked as a preacher in the Mennonite community. In 1637, he was named as the "der hiesigen Mennoniten Herrn Bischof" of Krefeld (Mennonite lord bishop of Krefeld). [ 17 ]
One of the earliest expressions of Mennonite Anabaptist faith was the Schleitheim Confession, adopted on 24 February 1527. [35] Its seven articles covered: The Ban (excommunication) Breaking of bread ; Separation from and shunning of the abomination (the Roman Catholic Church and other "worldly" groups and practices) Believer's baptism