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  2. Dordrecht Confession of Faith - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of Christian creeds - Wikipedia

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    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)[part 1; Second Edition 1970] The Creed of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Chile (1983) Living Faith: A statement of Christian Belief ...

  4. Anabaptist theology - Wikipedia

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    Concerning baptism we confess that all penitent believers, who, through faith, regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, are made one with God, and are written in heaven, must, upon such Scriptural confession of faith, and renewing of life, be baptized with water, in the most worthy name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy ...

  5. Rosedale Network of Churches - Wikipedia

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    The Rosedale Network of Churches subscribes to the "Mennonite Confession of Faith of 1963", and adopted the "Conservative Mennonite Statement of Theology" in 1991. The statement follows orthodox Trinitarian Christian patterns of belief with typical Mennonite emphasis. Baptism is a church ordinance, which may be performed by either pouring or ...

  6. Mennonites - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Mennonite Historical Library - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches - Wikipedia

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    Their confession of faith reveals the churches of the US Conference accept God in three persons; the divinity, humanity, virgin birth, atonement, resurrection, ascension and return of Jesus; the Bible as the inspired word of God; the fall of man and his salvation through the atoning work of Christ; the Lord's Day (Sunday) as a day of worship ...

  9. Mennonite Church USA - Wikipedia

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    As early as 1725, delegates from various Pennsylvania Mennonite settlements met to adopt the Dordrecht Confession of Faith as their official statement of faith. The "Old" Mennonite Church was marked by ties of communion, pulpit exchange, and common confession, rather than formal organizational ties. Many, but not all, of the conferences joined ...