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This category consists of articles which discuss historical Christian creeds, confessions or statements of faith. These texts would have been written over a period of time by a number of contributors and officially adopted by the church involved.
Since the early days of the Baptist movement, various denominations have adopted common confessions of faith as the basis for cooperative work among churches. [1] The following is a list of confessions that have been important to the development of various Baptist churches throughout history.
The Kansas City Statement of Faith is a 1913 confession of faith adopted by the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States at Kansas City, Missouri. This concise statement of Congregational beliefs restates traditional congregational polity and endorses ecumenism , while also displaying the drift away from Reformed ...
The statement was designed to defend the position of biblical inerrancy against a trend toward liberal conceptions of Scripture. The subsequent November 1982 Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics recognised the need to add a hermeneutical framework to the statement.
The statement includes an introduction and 14 articles. [2] Over the course of the 14 sections, the statement addresses cultural narratives "currently undermining Scripture in the areas of race and ethnicity, manhood and womanhood, and human sexuality" and argues that a secular threat is infiltrating the evangelical church. [1] Through this ...
These documents are less general in scope than a usual confession. They may confess that church's response to a theological controversy (e.g. the Canons of Dort) or seek to find common ground between discrete churches (e.g. the Consensus Tigurinus). Zwingli's Sixty-Seven Articles (1523) [3] Ten Theses of Berne (1528) [3] Lausanne Articles (1536 ...
Churches for Middle East Peace's executive director, Mae Elise Cannon, is a minister, writer, and academic. She has written several books, including Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World (IVP, 2009) and Just Spirituality: How Faith Practices Fuel Social Action (IVP, 2013) and was a co-author of Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith (Zondervan, 2014).
When the CC national General Council adopted a "Basis of Union" with the E&R Church in 1948, the dissenters organized into two groups: the Committee for the Continuation of Congregational Christian Churches, formed by the pastor of Los Angeles' Congregational Church of the Messiah, Harry R. Butman; and the League to Uphold Congregational ...