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Limited Atonement
Limited atonement is the Reformed doctrine that Christ's substitutionary death was intended for the salvation of those whom God has chosen and is certainly effective for them. Also called particular redemption or definite atonement, it stands in contrast to universal atonement.
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- Particular BaptistsDenominations
Particular Baptists are a stream of the Baptist tradition that arose in seventeenth-century England. They hold to a Calvinist soteriology, teaching that Christ's atonement applies "particularly" to the elect.
- Date-Setting EschatologyDoctrine & Theology
Date-setting eschatology is the practice of predicting a specific date or year for Christ's Second Coming or the end of the world. In South Korea it became widely known through the claim that the Rapture would occur on October 28, 1992.
- Online CommunionControversies
Online Communion is the question of whether church members taking part in an online worship service may prepare the bread and cup in their own homes and partake of the Lord's Supper. The question came to be widely debated in 2020, when COVID-19 restrictions limited in-person worship.
- AmishDenominations
The Amish are a Protestant community that separated from the Anabaptists of Switzerland and Alsace in the late seventeenth century. They emphasize believer's baptism and separation from the world, and they are known for their plain dress and limited use of technology.
- Edict of NantesHistory
The Edict of Nantes was a decree issued in 1598 by King Henry IV of France. It kept Catholicism as the state religion while granting limited religious freedom and civil rights to the Huguenots, the Calvinist Protestants of France, and it brought the French Wars of Religion to an end. Louis XIV revoked it in 1685 through the Edict of Fontainebleau.
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