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Top: Society: Religion_and_Spirituality: Christianity: Church_History
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Please do not submit sites about the history of local churches here. |
This category includes sites pertaining to the history of Christianity, including the development both of the faith and of the institution.
This category is for sites about the history of the Christian church in Africa.
This category is for websites that present historical perspectives on church history that would find little support among mainstream historians.It is not for unabashedly polemical writings, which go in Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Opposing_Views/Christianity , or for primarily theological approaches to church history (which would go in the appropriate Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations subcategory).
This category is geared to sites reviewing the major heresies denounced by the Christian Church through the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787 AD), the last accepted by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
For sites about the history of the Christian church in Asia.
Sites about early Christian writings.
This category is for sites about the history of the church in Europe. The sites may deal with any time period, but restrict themselves to Europe or a portion of it.
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Please do not submit sites about the history of local churches here. |
For sites about the history of the Christian church in North America or large parts of it.
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Sites in this category will be devoted to the history of the Reformed Church. Please submit sites in specific geographical areas to the appropriate subcategory. Historical sites which deal with Reformed churches at the time of the Reformation should be submitted to Society:Religion and Spirituality:Christianity:Church History:The Reformation:Reformed Reformation. |
This category will be devoted to a history of the Reformed churches, Reformed in the larger sense that they are a product of the Reformation, but not Anglican or Lutheran. These Reformed denominations are historically related by a similar Zwinglian or Calvinist system of doctrine but organizationally independent. Each of the nations in which the Reformed movement was established originally had its own church government. Several of these local churches have expanded to worldwide denominations and most have experienced splits into multiple denominations. The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) links more than 75 million Christians in over 100 countries around the world.Reformed doctrine is expressed in various creeds. Some of the common creeds are The Scots Confession, the Three forms of Unity (Heidelberg Catechism, Belgic Confession and the Canons of Dordt), the Second Helvetic Confession, the Westminster Standards (Confession of Faith, Shorter Catechism and Larger Catechism.)
Reformed churches have mainly three forms of church government: Presbyterian, Synodal (Swiss Reformed Churches) or Congregational.
Although the origin of the Reformed Church is in Europe and it has become well established in North America, some of the largest Protestant denominations in Asia, Africa and Latin America are of Reformed/Presbyterian background.
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Sites listed in this category are those which deal with the Reformation in general, i.e.- overviews, surveys and timelines. Sites that deal with specific reformers (Luther, Calvin, Beza, Knox, etc.) or specific countries or churches should be submitted to the appropriate subcategories of this category. |
This category deals with the Reformation, a movement which began in 1517 when Martin Luther posted a list of grievances, called the Ninety-Five Theses, against the Roman Catholic Church. As the spirit of reform spread other leaders appear: Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, French-born John Calvin who settled in Geneva, and John Knox who carried Calvin's teachings to Scotland.
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