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An Exempt Order of the Church

1967
An international order like the Hospital had to be privileged if it was to function properly. The financing of its activities and the independence it needed to fulfil its obligations would have been impossible without relief from the burden of some forms of taxation and freedom from the control of diocesan bishops, whose needs and aspirations might ...
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A Constitutional Reformation Church Order?

1999
Abstract Introduces a new Protestant constitutional church order against the background of war and revolution, and collapse of the old Catholic Empire in 1806. In Germany, it meant very limited religious toleration for Catholics, Lutherans, and the Reformed.
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Debates over Church Order

Abstract This chapter explores the connection between church order and puritanism. The chapter begins by establishing the roots of puritan debates over church order in the ecclesiology of the continental European Reformers. The chapter goes to show how the Reformers’ differing emphasis on the role and nature of the visible Church ...
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The Palatinate Church Order of 1563

Church History, 1954
The ground and provocation of the German Reformed Church are first considerations in the appreciation of its character. It is understood that the Palatinate Church Order of 1563, containing the Heidelberg Catechism and the Palatinate liturgy, introduced a permanent Reformed tradition to Germany.
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Re-Ordering Historic Churches

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2001
Being given a title is like being given a very broad question in an examination paper. At first sight it seems obvious what should be put forward by way of answer and on closer inspection one becomes less sure! So I tender my thoughts for inspection, conscious that some will feel there are gaps and perhaps others who will think I am stating too much of
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The church order of the Dutch Reformed Church: Points of departure with regard to the Scriptures, confessions of faith and the church order

2008
The Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church puts the position of the Scriptures, its confessions of faith and its order for the church in a truly reformed perspective. In some instances this can be traced to the famous Synod of Dordt of 1618-1619. Supported by resolutions from the General Synod, these points of departure indicate the official stance ...
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The Family, the Church, and Civil Ordering

2007
Abstract This chapter explores how the tension between the providential witness of the family and the eschatological witness of the church, as examined in the preceding chapter, should inform a Christian vision of civil community. It is argued that both the family and the church disclose the principal normative characteristics of the ...
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