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Reformed Church
The Reformed Church is a Protestant tradition descending from the sixteenth-century Reformation in Switzerland led by Zwingli and Calvin. In the broad sense, the term refers to all Calvinist churches, including Presbyterian churches. In the narrow sense, it refers to the churches that developed on the European continent under the name "Reformed Church."
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- RemonstrantsHistory
The Remonstrants were Arminian Reformed ministers in the Netherlands who in 1610 submitted a five-article Remonstrance challenging the Calvinist doctrine of predestination; the name also refers to their successors.
- Confessing ChurchHistory
The Confessing Church was a movement of German Protestant pastors and church members who, in the 1930s, resisted the Nazi state's attempt to take control of the church. In 1934 it set forth its standard of faith in the Barmen Theological Declaration.
- WaldensiansHistory
The Waldensians (also called Waldenses) are a movement of voluntary poverty and preaching that began in the late twelfth century with Valdes (Peter Waldo), a merchant of Lyon, France. They were condemned as heretics by the pope in 1184, joined the Reformation in 1532, and continue today as a Reformed church centered in Italy.
- Synod of DortHistory
The Synod of Dort was a Reformed church synod held in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, in 1618–1619. It rejected the five articles of the Remonstrants, the followers of Arminius, and adopted the Canons of Dort.
- Jacobus ArminiusPeople
Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and a professor of theology at Leiden University. His dissent from the Calvinist doctrine of predestination made him the namesake of "Arminianism."
- Communication of AttributesDoctrine & Theology
The communication of attributes is the Christological teaching that the attributes of both the divine and human natures in the one person of Jesus Christ are together ascribed to that one person. Because the doctrine is closely tied to the understanding of the Lord's Supper, Lutheran and Reformed churches explain it in different ways.
- Canons of DortDoctrine & Theology
The Canons of Dort are a Reformed confessional document adopted by the Synod of Dort in the Netherlands in 1618–1619 in response to the teachings of the Arminians (Remonstrants). They address five doctrines concerning salvation by grace and predestination.
- Belgic ConfessionDoctrine & Theology
The Belgic Confession is a Reformed confession of faith in thirty-seven articles, written in French by Guido de Brès in 1561. Together with the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dort, it is known as one of the "Three Forms of Unity."
- Emil BrunnerPeople
Emil Brunner (1889–1966) was a Swiss Reformed theologian. With Karl Barth he was a leader of dialectical theology, also known as neo-orthodoxy, and in 1934 he engaged in a controversy with Barth over natural theology.
- Geerhardus VosPeople
Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949) was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian who taught biblical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is regarded as having laid the foundation for a "redemptive-historical" reading of Scripture, which views revelation as unfolding progressively in history.
- Louis BerkhofPeople
Louis Berkhof (1873–1957) was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian. He served as professor and president of Calvin Theological Seminary, and his major work, *Systematic Theology*, has also been widely read in Presbyterian theological education in Korea.
- Herman BavinckPeople
Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) was a Dutch Reformed theologian. He taught at the Theological School in Kampen and at the Free University of Amsterdam, and he wrote the four-volume Reformed Dogmatics.
- Alvin PlantingaPeople
Alvin Plantinga (born 1932) is an American analytic philosopher. A leading figure in "Reformed epistemology," which defends the rationality of belief in God, he received the Templeton Prize in 2017.
- David BoschPeople
David Jacobus Bosch (1929–1992) was a South African missiologist. He is best known for Transforming Mission (1991), which traces how missionary thought has changed over the course of history.
- John G. PatonPeople
John Gibson Paton (1824–1907) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary. He served on the islands of Tanna and Aniwa in the New Hebrides (present-day Vanuatu) in the South Pacific and translated the New Testament into the Aniwan language.
- Psalm 124:8Bible Verses
Psalm 124:8 is the final verse of Psalm 124. It confesses that the help that delivered Israel comes from God, the maker of heaven and earth. Reformed churches in the Calvinist tradition have used it to open worship, so it appears often in orders of service.
- Mayflower CompactHistory
The Mayflower Compact was an agreement for self-government signed by forty-one adult male passengers in November 1620, after the Mayflower reached Cape Cod and before they went ashore. It became the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
- Reformed TheologyDoctrine & Theology
Reformed theology is a Protestant theological tradition that continues the line of Zwingli, Calvin, and others within the sixteenth-century Reformation. It emphasizes the sovereignty of God and the authority of Scripture. In Korea, it is represented chiefly by the Presbyterian churches.
- Westminster Confession of FaithDoctrine & Theology
The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith produced by the Westminster Assembly in seventeenth-century England. Together with the Larger and Shorter Catechisms prepared by the same assembly, it serves as the doctrinal standard for most Presbyterian churches worldwide, including most Presbyterian denominations in Korea.