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Sentence Examples And his memorial is also to be re-erected and rededicated at a special service at Fagley United Reformed Church on Sunday, April 5, at 10 am. A few of these Protestants affiliated with Reformed churches but most became Presbyterians. He must be committed to and must have studied Reformed and Baptist theology. Unlike the English Puritans, the Dutch Reformed ministers made no efforts to evangelise the native peoples of the area. She graduated from New Brunswick last May and is pastoring Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brookyln, New York. They were devoted members of the Upham Road United Reformed Church, where Frank ran the Sunday school for a number of years. Less promising for the art of music were the activities of the Reformed Calvinists, including the Puritans who settled New England. A number of chapels, including Congregational and United Reformed Church, amalgamated in the 1970s to become Christchurch in New Road. With good reason, they had come to believe that the path to freedom ran through the baptismal font of the Reformed Church. In the responsive acoustic of Kendal's United Reformed Church the silvery sound of the massed flute choir could be appreciated to the full. The success of these churches strengthened the established Reformed churches, which rejected the ecumenical stance of the Moravians. Let it be said, genuine Reformed interpretation has no affinity to the Barthian hermeneutic. Consequently the Reformed believer does not live with the constant sense of insecurity that plagues the Arminian. Many of them are committed Reformed Baptists, but even more are men at various stages in the process of reformation. The World Alliance of Reformed Churches consists of Congregational, Presbyterian, Reformed, and United churches. The writer is dispensational and premillennial in outlook, and seems to know little of Reformed writers or their thinking. As a Springbok rugby star in the late 1920s and as a Dutch Reformed dominee, he was prominent in both of Afrikanerdom's religions. As a result of their simplistic attitude a narrow strand of Disciplinarian theology is inflated to embrace the whole of Reformed orthodoxy. The Evangelical Church is a unified Protestant church, which combines Lutherans, Reformed Protestants, and United Protestants. Most of the Reformed churches would accept the teachings of the ecumenical councils of the first millennium. Show More Sentences Too often scholarly collections devoted to Reformed theology are but hagiographies born of an all-too-nostalgic gaze into the past. Similarly, the ecclesial intuitions of the Eastern and Reformed churches could become a very profitable complement to the Roman vision. Although most ethnic Hungarians belong to the Reformed church, Lutherans constitute the country's largest Protestant denomination. He was inducted to the pastorate of the Reformed Baptist Church, Inverness, on 17 January. Toward that end he is planning trips to Korea and New Zealand this year to raise the seminary's profile among the Korean Presbyterians and Reformed Churches of New Zealand. Today, the Reformed Evangelische Kirche, while professing to adhere to The Helvetic Confession, has departed completely from the historic Reformed faith and biblical ethics. He has been invited to train students for the Presbyterian ministry where heretofore they had been trained only for ministry in the Dutch Reformed Church. Furthermore, the Lutherans felt very frustrated by the orthodox wing of the Dutch Reformed Church, which tried to minimize the Lutheran influence. Finally, he examines the decreasing influence of strict Reformed theology due to rising scholasticism, sectarianism and natural theology based on enlightened philosophy. Theologically, Puritanism represents an emphasis within the Reformed Protestant tradition on intense personal devotion and extreme ethical probity. The last named has been adopted by the Lutheran, Reformed tradition, and Methodist Churches that had previously developed a lectionary of their own. Some of the students have paid a considerable price for introducing Reformed doctrines and orderly worship into what were once charismatic churches. Furthermore, the Reformed objection to natural theology, unformed and inchoate as it is, may best be seen as a rejection of classical foundationalism. I arrived here with my wife of 26 years and three children, and with no idea where the will of God would lead us to settle to begin planting a Reformed Baptist church. This also serves to promote the via media concept, for it is well known that Erasmus rejected the key Reformed doctrinal planks of sola gratia and sola fide. Engelsma also rejected the charge in a listener's question that the Protestant Reformed person seeks to determine whether a person is regenerate before reaching out to them. For the most part, the Reformed tradition did not modify the medieval consensus on the doctrine of God. Christ's human nature has been a point of contention between Reformed and Lutheran Christology. Reformed theologians emphasize that this sinfulness affects all of a person's nature, including their will. Reformed theologians teach that sin so affects human nature that they are unable even to exercise faith in Christ by their own will. Show More Sentences Karl Barth reinterpreted the Reformed doctrine of predestination to apply only to Christ. In order to identify the visible church, Reformed theologians have spoken of certain marks of the Church. Pierre Bayle, a Reformed Frenchman, also felt safer in the Netherlands than in his home country. Henry Dunant, a Reformed pietist, founded the Red Cross and initiated the Geneva Conventions. It was pressure from both outside and inside the Dutch Reformed Calvinist church which helped reverse apartheid in South Africa. The Dutch West India Company, however, established the Reformed Church as the official religious institution of New Netherland. The church maintains its strong commitment to the Westminster Confession and Reformed Theology. Christ Church, now a United Reformed Church but formerly Congregationalist, was the home church of British composer Walford Davies. The soteriology of the Apostolic Church is neither uniformly Reformed nor Arminian. Starting at 1595, Reformed churches were commissioned, many of which are still landmarks today. Being Calvinists, they soon integrated into the Dutch Reformed Church, though often retaining their own congregations. The United Reformed Church resulted from the 1972 union of the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church in England and Wales. There are also Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Elim churches in the town. In 1529, the city embraced Lutheranism, and it received Reformed refugees from the Netherlands and France. During the Republic, any person who wished to hold public office had to conform to the Reformed Church and take an oath to this effect. In the first years of the Republic, controversy arose within the Reformed Church, mainly around the subject of predestination. One Sunday it would be an Anglican priest, the next a Dutch Reformed predikant, the next a Methodist minister. The term was used frequently to describe members of the Reformed Church of France until the beginning of the 19th century. The issue of demographic strength and geographical spread of the Reformed tradition in France has been covered in a variety of sources. During the same period there were some 1,400 Reformed churches operating in France. Show More Sentences The population around the Massif Central and the area around Dordogne was almost entirely Reformed. John Calvin was a Frenchman and largely responsible for the introduction and spread of the Reformed tradition in France. Sometime between 1550 and 1580, members of the Reformed church in France came to be commonly known as Huguenots. The Prinsenhof is one of the 14 active Walloon churches of the Dutch Reformed Church. Around 1685, Huguenot refugees found a safe haven in the Lutheran and Reformed states in Germany and Scandinavia. Admitted to the Dutch Reformed Church and married by its ministers, their children could be baptized. Another Reformed distinctive present in these theologians was their denial of the bodily presence of Christ in the Lord's supper. This controversy produced the Free Church of England and, in the United States and Canada, the Reformed Episcopal Church. Zwingli and Calvin's heirs are far broader denominationally, and are broadly referred to as the Reformed tradition. Under the leadership of John Calvin, Geneva became the chief international centre of Reformed Protestantism and Latin biblical scholarship. They were also to maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed faith established by law. Prior to his arrival in England, the new king William III of England was not Anglican, but rather was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. Despite that, the movement continues to exist to this day in Italy, as a part of the wider Reformed tradition. Today, this term also refers to the doctrines and practices of the Reformed churches of which Calvin was an early leader. Puritans adopted a Reformed theology, but they also took note of radical criticisms of Zwingli in Zurich and Calvin in Geneva. In addition, he refined Arminianism with a strong evangelical emphasis on the Reformed doctrine of justification by faith. Congregationalism is often considered to be a part of the wider Reformed tradition. Congregationalists also differed with the Reformed churches using episcopalian church governance, which is usually led by a bishop. Within sight of the mill, the tunnel would follow the line of the railway and exit behind the United Reformed Church. A Reformed confession of faith was adopted by Parliament in 1560, while the young Mary, Queen of Scots, was still in France. Show More Sentences Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to the British Isles, particularly Scotland. Most Reformed churches which trace their history back to Scotland are either presbyterian or congregationalist in government. Presbyterian governance is practised by Presbyterian denominations and also by many other Reformed churches. As such, the church is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. It is strongly associated with French, Dutch, Swiss and Scottish Reformation movements, and the Reformed and Presbyterian churches. Reformed Baptist churches are organized to be governed by elders, on the congregationalist model. The Waldensians adopted Calvinist theology during the Reformation and became the Italian branch of the Reformed churches. There are two United Reformed Churches, one in the Village, and one in the Murray. This position is also taken in some Baptist churches, especially Reformed Baptists, and by the Churches of Christ. It was formed in 2004 as a merger of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and a smaller Lutheran Church. Protestantism is largely a result of Dutch Reformed and Lutheran missionary efforts during the country's colonial period. In Geneva, he met John Calvin, from whom he gained experience and knowledge of Reformed theology and Presbyterian polity. In North America Covenanters became known as members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. Calvinism is largely represented by Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. The document demonstrates the diversity as well as unity in early Reformed theology. Although much of Calvin's work was in Geneva, his publications spread his ideas of a correctly Reformed church to many parts of Europe. Many conservative Reformed churches which are strongly Calvinistic formed the World Reformed Fellowship which has about 70 member denominations. Most are not part of the World Communion of Reformed Churches because of its ecumenial attire. The International Conference of Reformed Churches is another conservative association. Reformed theologians believe that God communicates knowledge of himself to people through the Word of God. Show More Sentences Reformed theologians use the concept of covenant to describe the way God enters fellowship with people in history. Conservative contemporary Reformed theologians, such as John Murray, have also rejected the idea of covenants based on law rather than grace. Calvin actively participated in the polemics that were exchanged between the Lutheran and Reformed branches of the Reformation movement. Zwingli formed an alliance of Reformed cantons which divided the Confederation along religious lines. His legacy lives on in the confessions, liturgy, and church orders of the Reformed churches of today. With this rapprochement, Calvin established his role in the Swiss Reformed Churches and eventually in the wider world. Although his name is not widely recognised, Zwingli's legacy lives on in the basic confessions of the Reformed churches of today. These conflicts led to further schism, for example in the creation of the Reformed Episcopal Church in North America. Yet the partial nature of this list also serves to show that in Germany there remained many Lutherans who never did unite with the Reformed. In both cases, conformity with strict Reformed Protestant principles would have resulted in a conditional formulation. Chapter 21 describes the acceptable parameters of Reformed worship as governed by the regulative principle of worship. According to Polly Ha, the Reformed Church Government refuted this claiming that the bishops had been enforcing canon law for 1500 years. The followers of John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other theologians linked to the Reformed tradition also began to use that term. To distinguish the two evangelical groups, others began to refer to the two groups as Evangelical Lutheran and Evangelical Reformed. Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg, though raised Reformed, became convinced of the truth of historic Lutheranism as a young man. In 1874 the FCE made contact with the newly organised Reformed Episcopal Church in North America. The two churches lived in parallel until 1927, when the Free Church of England united with the UK branch of the Reformed Episcopal Church. The FCE is in communion with the Reformed Episcopal Church, which itself is now a member of the Anglican Church in North America. The founding of the Reformed Episcopal Church followed a 1873 controversy about ecumenical activity. Over the following several decades, the REC made the transition to a more Reformed theology in the Calvinistic sense. Show More Sentences Many of the Canadian Reformed Episcopal Churches joined the United Church at its founding. The Reformed Episcopal Church now has three churches in Canada, two in British Columbia and one in Ontario. By 1910 there were 28 ministers and 1,990 communicant members constituting the Reformed Episcopal Church in that country. In 1927, the Reformed Episcopal Church in England merged with the Free Church of England. The Reformed Episcopal Seminary itself is one of the first, if not the first, seminaries to be racially inclusive. The Reformed Episcopal Church has three seminaries, operating at four sites. The Reformed Church in America also opposes capital punishment stating that it is incompatible with the Spirit of Christ and the ethic of love. The Reformed Church in America had 76,000 members and 154 congregations in the state. He was a deacon in the Dutch Reformed Church and later worked for the Church as an accountant. The chamber would have kept the title of House of Lords, after names like Senate and Reformed House were rejected. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church has as its highest Church court the General Synod. The governing body of the Reformed Church in America, a Calvinist denomination in the United States and Canada, is known as the General Synod. Socinians and Reformed Church members were also known to hold Sabbatarian beliefs. Questions are posed by the Reformed tradition to Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, and from BEM to Reformed theology. Calian, in particular, encouraged movement toward Reformed theological centrism and left the school on a sounder financial footing. Spell checking in German, Reformed German, and Swiss German that finds and corrects capitalization errors at the beginning and within a sentence. Off The Hook runs at the Foleshill Road United Reformed Church until Saturday. At that time, the Free Churches included the Methodists, Baptists, United Reformed and Pentecostalists. The non-Wesleyan wing has been variously described as Keswick, Reformed, or Baptistic in its position on sanctification. The same quality of analysis is found in the articles on the Anabaptists, the Reformed, and the Anglicans. Show More Sentences Lutheran churches were founded mostly in Germany, the Baltics and Scandinavia, while Reformed ones were founded in Switzerland, Hungary, France, the Netherlands and Scotland. Theologically, many Protestants have embraced the parish model as having roots in a Reformed view of eschatology, a la Abraham Kuyper or Francis Schaeffer. Indeed, Presbyterianism was the polity of most Reformed Churches in Europe, and had been favored by many in England since the English Reformation. Without higher courts to ensure doctrinal uniformity among the congregations, Congregationalists have been more diverse than other Reformed churches. The Tabernacle United Reformed Church at Llanvaches survives to this day. In 1981, a covenant project was proposed between the Church of England, the Methodist Church in Great Britain, the United Reformed Church and the Moravian Church. Lutheran theology differs from Reformed theology in Christology, the purpose of God's Law, the divine grace, the concept of perseverance of the saints, and predestination. John Calvin's theological thought influenced a variety of Congregational, Continental Reformed, United, Presbyterian, and other Reformed churches. The Swiss Reformed pastor Ludwig Lavater supplied one of the most frequently reprinted books of the period with his Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking By Night. In the Reformed Churches the Eucharist is variously administered. However, with the rise of confessionalism, some Baptists have denied the Zwinglian doctrine of mere memorialism and have taken up a Reformed view of Communion. At the age of 24 he became a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. At certain vital points Barth follows Luther not only, broadly speaking, against Calvin and the Reformed tradition, but also against the main lines of the Lutheran tradition. There are more conservative Reformed federations like the World Reformed Fellowship and the International Conference of Reformed Churches, as well as independent churches. Its successor church, the Reformed Church in America still exists today. These included the Lutheran movement of Martin Luther, the Anabaptist movement of the Dutch reformer Menno Simons, and the Reformed teachings of John Calvin. Various Congregational, Reformed, Reformed Baptists and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world. The Isle of Wight United Reformed Church is situated in Shanklin. Its Basis of Union contains a statement concerning the nature, faith and order of the United Reformed Church which sets out its beliefs in a condensed form. Methodists, Baptists and the United Reformed Church are also represented, alongside newer church groups including Elim Pentecostal and Newfrontiers. Show More Sentences Throughout the world, the Reformed churches operate hospitals, homes for handicapped or elderly people, and educational institutions on all levels. Scholars speculate as to why Zwinglianism has not diffused more widely, even though Zwingli's theology is considered the first expression of Reformed theology. The biggest Reformed association is the World Communion of Reformed Churches with more than 80 million members in 211 member denominations around the world. The second strand represents a range of Protestant Reformed teachings brought to England from neighbouring countries in the same period, notably Calvinism and Lutheranism. Reformed doctrine and theology were developed into a distinctive English form by bishops and theologians led by Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker. However, it lives on in small denominations such as the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States and as a minority position in other denominations. Episcopacy was thus seen as a given of the Reformed Ecclesia Anglicana, and a foundation in the institution's appeal to ancient and apostolic legitimacy. The later Puritan movement, often referred to as dissenters and nonconformists, eventually led to the formation of various Reformed denominations. Reformed churches were founded in Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland and France by such reformers as John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and John Knox. The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith. Reformed theologians, along with other Protestants, believe salvation from punishment for sin is to be given to all those who have faith in Christ. Chapter 24 covers Reformed teaching on marriage and divorce. Chapter 26 presents Reformed teaching on the communion of saints. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, principal author of the prototypical 1549 BCP and the more Reformed 1552 BCP, could be said to be the first Anglican theologian. Some contemporary Reformed theologians have moved away from the traditional language of one person in two natures, viewing it as unintelligible to contemporary people. Protestants occupied most church buildings, and those remaining were confiscated by the government of the Dutch Republic, which favoured the Dutch Reformed Church. Writing out of the Reformed tradition, John Cooper makes such a case, critically engaging the adoption of the panentheist approach taken by Hart and so many others. In contrast to this movement, clergy such as the Bishop of Liverpool, John Charles Ryle, sought to uphold the distinctly Reformed identity of the Church of England. In 1817, Frederick William III of Prussia ordered the Lutheran and Reformed churches in his territory to unite, forming the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union. Through the influence of Karl Barth, many contemporary Reformed theologians have discarded the covenant of works, along with other concepts of federal theology. Show More Sentences In 2010, a similar jurisdiction created by the Reformed Episcopal Church and former members and congregations of the Episcopal Church in the USA was officially launched. Toward the middle of the 16th century, the Reformed began to commit their beliefs to confessions of faith, which would shape the future definition of the Reformed faith. Martin Luther and his successor Philipp Melanchthon were undoubtedly significant influences on these theologians, and to a larger extent later Reformed theologians. At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis. There are more conservative Reformed federations such as the World Reformed Fellowship and the International Conference of Reformed Churches, as well as independent churches. Covenanters fleeing persecution had set up churches in Ireland and North America and several small denominations were founded, including the Reformed Presbyterian Church. In Hungary, the largest Protestant denomination is represented by Reformed Church in Hungary, which is a Calvinist strand, established in 1567, Debrecen. In some Dutch Reformed bodies, a classis serves as a delegated body, which ceases to exist in between meetings, whereas a presbytery exists perpetually. In 1877, in response to a petition from REC sympathizers in England, the REC's Fifth General Council acted to establish the Reformed Episcopal Church in that country. The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in polity and Reformed in theology. The theology of the church is now generally conservative and Reformed. The Reformed Episcopal Church was originally divided into four synods. Southern Africa is a major base of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches. Other Presbyterians, however, such as the Reformed Presbyterians, would practice a cappella exclusive psalmody, as well as eschew the celebration of holy days. Examples from Classical Literature On the 29th of August they forced Aachen, where the magistrates and those of the Reformed religion have been extremely maltreated. Krummacher was a teacher of theology in the Reformed University of Duisburg. The ancient home of the Middle Dutch Reformed had also gone for secular purposes. There's a Griqua church here, just like any other church but I'm Dutch Reformed. In France also, how barbarously have the Reformed been treated! These were members and ministers in the Reformed Methodist Church. Indeed, the Dutch Remonstrant Brotherhood, the heirs of Arminius, is a member organization of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Rooted primarily in Reformed thought, this model emerged in the second half of the twentieth century as the way to think Christianly in the evangelical academy. Rembrandt, for example, had close associations with Mennonites despite the fact that he formally remained a Reformed Calvinist and was most likely a Remonstrant. Jones presses forward a view of covenantal baptism, grounded in a Reformed mindset, and backed, according to Jones, with a rich Baptist theological tradition. Find more words! 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