Reformed Churches
Reformed churches claim primarily John Calvin , but other reformers such as Ulrich Zwingli , Heinrich Bullinger , Theodore Beza , William Farel and John Knox.
These churches have spread primarily Switzerland , Scotland , Netherlands and France , and since then in South Africa , South Korea , New Caledonia , in Quebec and French Polynesia , etc.. In Anglo-Saxon countries, they often called Presbyterian.
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In the framework of theology Protestant , Reformed theology is more specific emphasis on the omnipotence of God, without conflict with the freedom and responsibility of the Christian. On the contrary, since he knows forgiven and saved by Jesus Christ , the Christian can lead his life so demanding and responsible freedom, reconciling personal holiness and commitment to society. This transcendence of God implies also the relativity of all human powers, whether religious or political.
Organization
Reformed churches have the distinction of being independent of each other, at both organizational and doctrinal. However, most of them are federated into national churches (eg the Reformed Church of France ). Globally the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (consisting of 70 million members) was the most important organization, but a number of churches participating in the Reformed Ecumenical Council ( Reformed Ecumenical Council ), the two organizations have initiated in recent years reconciliation work, work that culminated in June 2010 by the merger of these two organizations in the World Communion of Reformed Churches. There are also two other international organizations, more conservative and less broad than the ARM and the ROC: the International Conference of Reformed Churches and Reformed Confraternity.
In practice, the Reformed churches are generally organized by the Presbyterian Synodical system , that is to say that decisions are based on a balance between local and union.
Since 1973 , Europe, Reformed and Lutherans live in full communion with the Church following the agreement of the theological Leuenberg. A Lutheran pastor could be charged with a Reformed congregation, and vice versa, as an extension of this idea, the Lutheran and Reformed Church of France will be a single entity by 2011: it is already case in Alsace-Lorraine in UEPAL.
See also
Internal Links
- World Communion of Reformed Churches
- Reformed Church of France
- Independent Evangelical Reformed Churches
- Church of Scotland
- Scottish Church in Paris
- Walloon Church
External Links
- World Communion of Reformed Churches
- Swiss Protestant Churches
- Protestant Church of Geneva
- Site of the Cathedral of Geneva, instead of preaching of Calvin
- The website of the Reformed Church of France (FRA)
- World Alliance of Reformed
- Protestant Churches of Alsace-Moselle
- Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches
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