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It is refreshing, after 21 years of ordination, to hear the church say it is "aided in understanding the gospel by the testimony of the church from earlier ages and from many lands." The Westminster Confession fits in its original 1646 context. To see behind Westminster the struggle of the...
The Scots Confession (1560), the Second Helvetic Confession (Swiss, 1562), the Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), and the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds complete the Book.
But the Book of Confessions remains open, and this has a theological and ecumenical significance that might be overlooked in the easy tendency to think of the Confession of 1967 as the "new" Confession, replacing Westminster, rather than as one of the nine in the Book of Confessions.
As the Consultation on Church Union progresses, involving the formation of one church out of the Episcopal Church, the Disciples, the Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, the United Presbyterian Church, and others, it will probably become necessary to draft a tenth Confession or even to reorganize the function...
The Theological Declaration of Barmen, like the Scots and Westminster Confession, involved politics. Barmen illustrates the importance of having an eye for the political and social issues that are close by whenever theological statements are made. Barmen, in Germany in 1934, was the meeting place of the first Synod of...