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Polity and Worship in the Swiss Reformed Churches

2016
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Relevance of the reformed church polity principles: An analysis of the constitution of the Reformed Church of East Africa (RCEA)

Editon Consortium Journal of Philosophy, Religion and Theological Studies, 2021
This paper drawing to the foundations of both Presbyterian and Reformed church polity principles, evaluates the constitution of the Reformed Church in East Africa providing a proposed church order for the future of RCEA. The distinctiveness of church law is that it must also derive from the Bible what entails Christ’s will for His church and then ...
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Evaluation of the Presbyterian Church in Korea's use of assistant pastors : a reformed church polity perspective

2019
The Presbyterian Church in Korea (PCK) has an office of assistant pastor. The assistant pastors are viewed as pastors, but there is a distinction between pastors and assistant pastors in both practical ministry and authority. Assistant pastors are inferior to the pastors in all respects, and therefore the system can be defined as hierarchical.
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Church polity in a changing South Africa: a study of two Reformed churches

2013
For both the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and the Reformed Churches in South Africa (RCSA) the biggest changes in a changing South Africa have been not so much internally as within the South African society. Officially these changes really started after the first general elections in 1994.
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Origins of the Presbyterian Church polity in Scotland, as devised by the reformers of the sixteenth century

2019
In studying the Scottish reformation, with a view to discovering the origins of the Presbyterian polity, the reforming activities of the Lollards must form our starting-point. For the purposes of our survey the reformation movement in Scotland may be divided into eight periods:- I.
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The Nature of the Classical Assembly in Changing Dutch Contexts: Continuity and Discontinuity in Reformed Church Polity

2014
This essay discusses the question of the nature of collegial cooperation and supervision (episkope) among the Reformed offices.
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“Let the little children come”: Liturgical Revision and Paedocommunion in the Christian Reformed Church

Studia Liturgica, 2021
Ryan L Faber
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‘This nest is for all kinds of birds’? National identity questions in the refugee reception of the Reformed Church in Hungary

Religion, State and Society, 2022
Viktória Kóczián
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:Paradigms in Polity: Classic Readings in Reformed and Presbyterian Church Government

The Sixteenth Century Journal, 1996
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