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The Origin and Purpose of Church Canons in N. P. Aksakov’ Writings
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2022 This article analyses the views of the church historian and canonist N. P. Aksakov on the origin and purpose of church canons. The originality of his views lies in the fact that he considered the canons as norms that appeared in the Church from the very ...
Marina Naumova
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Calvin’s views on church governance
In die Skriflig, 2010 This article investigates whether the church was seen by Calvin as a mere human community based on laws, an association functioning on the basis of a constitution, or as a dynamic domain of the governance of Jesus Christ which functions on the basis
C.J. Smit
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Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2022 The National Synod of the Reformed Churches was convened by the Earl of Leicester in The Hague in 1586 in a period of crisis. One of the Synod’s results was the Church Order, of which handwritten copies were sent to the provincial synods and classes. The
Erik A. de Boer, Moses Lim
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In die Skriflig, 2020 The Church Order of Dordtrecht of 1619 and of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1962: The latter a developement of the former on church discipline? A spokesman for the Commission of Actuarii who drafted the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church for a ...
Piet J. Strauss
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In die Skriflig, 2023 J.D. Vorster and the Dutch Reformed Church Order of 1962: The Church Order of Dordtrecht adapted to the demands of our day? J.D. (Koot) Vorster, was the moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church (1970–1974) as well as the specialist for the church order of ...
Pieter J. Strauss
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Serving the peace? Disorder, order, and peace in church polity
In die Skriflig, 2020 If a church order rules that the peace should be served, what does that mean? It is the aim of this contribution to deal with the legal history of the phrase ‘to serve the peace’ as from the 16th-century Reformed synodical acts and church orders.
Leon van den Broeke
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Of Church Orders and Postmodernism
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 2021 Self-avowedly influenced by the postmodernist critique of nineteenth-century ‘positivism’, Jesse Spohnholz's ambitious and multiple prize-winning 2017 The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition speaks at once to the political and institutional history of the Reformed churches of the Netherlands and northwestern ...
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Veranderings in die NG Kerk se sosio-politieke omgewing: Refleksie op Kerkordes 1962 en 1998
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Socio-political changes in the Dutch Reformed Church: Reflected in church orders 1962 and 1998. The Confessio Belgica or Dutch Confession of Faith (1561), article 29 confesses 3 indications regarding the marks of a true church: the scriptural-based ...
Pieter J. Strauss
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The Presidency, War, and Foreign Affairs: Practice Under the Framers [PDF]
, 1976 Varje år träder ca 50 000 människor ur Svenska kyrkan och avsäger sig därmed rätten att begravas i Svenska kyrkans ceremoniella ordning och lokaler. Man träder ut ur kyrkans ordning, och ut ur kyrkans rum, men man träder inte in i något annat.
Sofaer, Abraham D.
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 The debatable church orderly relevance between 1618, 1816 and 1951 in relation to the church order of the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa: The above-mentioned dates from the past, although distant from each other, are linked to each other and ...
Barry J. van Wyk
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