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Beeke, Joel, and Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints, (Reformation Heritage Books, 2006) ISBN 978-1-60178-000-3; Cross, Claire, The Puritan Earl, The Life of Henry Hastings, Third Earl of Huntingdon, 1536-1595, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1966.
Covenant of Free Evangelical Congregations in the Netherlands - member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches; Moluccan Evangelical Church (GIM) Indonesian Christian Church in the Netherlands (GKIN) Since the Reformation, the Netherlands, as one of the few countries in the world, could be characterised as a mainly Calvinist state.
In the 17th century, the word Puritan was a term applied not to just one group but to many. Historians still debate a precise definition of Puritanism. [6] Originally, Puritan was a pejorative term characterizing certain Protestant groups as extremist. Thomas Fuller, in his Church History, dates the first use of the word to 1564.
Reformed churches practice several forms of church government, primarily presbyterian and congregational, but some adhere to episcopal polity. The largest interdenominational association is the World Communion of Reformed Churches with more than 100 million members in 211 member denominations around the world.
[7] [22] Much of the growth has occurred after World War II, when decolonization of Africa and abolition of various restrictions against Protestants in Latin American countries occurred. [8] According to one source, Protestants constituted respectively 2.5% of South Americans, 2% of Africans and 0.5% of Asians in 1900. [8]
Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria – 0.3 million [175] Reformed Church in Zambia – 0.3 million [176] Evangelical Reformed Church in Angola – 0.2 million [177] Christian Reformed Church in North America – 0.2 million [178] Evangelical Church in Kalimantan – 0.2 million [179] Javanese Christian Church – 0.2 million [180]
The continental Reformed churches had an impact on Anglicanism through the Puritans, who wished to reform the Church of England along continental lines. [ 1 ] The following is a chronological list of confession and theological doctrines of the Reformed churches:
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregational traditions, as well as parts of the Anglican (known as "Episcopal" in some regions) and Baptist traditions.