Denominations leaning in the Calvinist direction are grouped as the Reformed churches and include Particular Baptists, Reformed Baptists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists.

One branch of the ritualistic movement argued that both ' Romanisers ' ( by imitating the Church of Rome ) and their Evangelical opponents ( by imitating Reformed churches ) transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559, ' that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth '.

The Church of South India was formed in 1947 by the union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches.

Adherents would include the Reformed church, most of the Presbyterian church, some low church Anglicans, some Baptist churches, some Wesleyan / Methodist churches and certain Lutheran churches.

Today, this term also refers to the doctrines and practices from the Reformed churches, where Calvin was an early leader.

Along with Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli, Calvin influenced the doctrines of the Reformed churches.

The rising importance of the Reformed churches and of Calvin belongs to the second phase of the Protestant Reformation.

It soon became evident that doctrine in the Reformed churches was developing in a direction independent of Martin Luther's, under the influence of numerous writers and reformers among whom Calvin eventually became preeminent.

Much later, when his fame was attached to the Reformed churches, their whole body of doctrine came to be called " Calvinism ".

The UCC is by far the most diverse of the Reformed churches in the U. S. In the United Kingdom, the United Reformed Church was formed in 1972 by the merger of the Presbyterian and the Congregational churches, on presbyterian principles of union but within a continuing congregational regard for local diversity.

* Reformed churches

Denominations that oppose homosexuality include the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox churches and some mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Methodist churches, Reformed Church in America the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Belgic Confession, used in Reformed churches, devotes a section ( Article 6 ) to " The difference between the canonical and apocryphal books " and asserts that " All which the Church may read and take instruction from, so far as they agree with the canonical books ; but they are far from having such power and efficacy as that we may from their testimony confirm any point of faith or of the Christian religion ; much less to detract from the authority of the other sacred books.

Two congregations have joined one of the other smaller Reformed churches in the Netherlands.

Some minorities within congregations that joined the PKN decided to leave the church and associated themselves individually with one of the other Reformed churches.

There is no standard frequency ; John Calvin desired weekly communion, but the city council only approved monthly, and monthly celebration has become the most common practice in Reformed churches today.

Max Thurian describes the classic Reformed / Presbyterian concept of apostolic succession in the following terms.

A purely historical or mechanical succession of ministers, bishops or pastors would not mean ipso facto true apostolic succession in the church, Reformed tradition, following authentic Catholic tradition, distinguishes four realities which make up the true apostolic succession, symbolized, but not absolutely guaranteed, by ministerial succession.

The following is a chronological list of confession and theological doctrines of the Reformed churches:

# The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and each of the following: the member churches of the Lutheran World Federation, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the Presbyterian Church USA, the Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ, the United Methodist Church and the Moravian Church in America.

# The United Church of Christ and each of the following: the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church USA, and the Reformed Church in America.

In the following year he began publishing a monthly periodical ( Scherzhafte und ernsthafte, vernüftige und einfältige Gedanken über allerhand lustige und nutzliche Bücher und Fragen ) in which he ridiculed the pedantic weaknesses of the learned, taking the side of the Pietists in their controversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of Lutherans and Calvinists ; he also published a volume on natural law which emphasized natural reason and a paper defending marriage between Lutherans and members of the Reformed church.

Even though Zwingli died in battle in 1531, the canton remained a stronghold of the Swiss Reformed Church over the following centuries.

The following sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: George Westinghouse Jones House, Niskayuna Railroad Station, Niskayuna Reformed Church, and Rosendale Common School.

Many Reformed, particularly those following John Calvin, hold that the reality of Christ's body and blood do not come corporally ( physically ) to the elements, but that " the Spirit truly unites things separated in space " ( Calvin ).

In the following, he was delegate of the Prussian Regional Synod, head of the Presbyteries of the Court, curator of the Reformed College, member of the Society for the Betterment of Detainees and participated at the German Juristical Congress.

The Canadian Reformed Churches were founded by members of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands ( Liberated ) who immigrated to Canada following World War II.

The Canadian Reformed Churches also have " ecclesiastical fellowship " with a number of Reformed and Presbyterian church federations, including the following:

They were contested by the following political parties or party groupings-the Democratic Rally Party in coalition with the Liberal Party, the Democratic Party, the Socialist Party EDEK, AKEL-Left-New Forces Party and two new parties the Refugee Movement ( PAKOP ) and the Reformed Left ( ADISOK ), a splinter group from AKEL.

Initially a lukewarm Calvinist and a member of the Polish Reformed Church, in the late 1570s he converted to Catholicism, with his wife and children following him a few years later.

The methodical approach of Devotio Moderns towards prayer and meditation found significant following within the Catholic Church, as well as later Reformed communities.

Kuitert in the course of his life moved from Reformed orthodoxy to Reformed middle orthodoxy following his mentor and Ph. D. supervisor Berkouwer, for whom he wrote his dissertation on the Divine Co-Humanity ( Dutch: medemenselijkheid, Afrikaans: Medemenslikheid ) ( De mensvormigheid Gods ( 1962 ); German edition 1967 ).

In 1982, following another denominational merger ( known as the " joining and receiving ") between the Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church in America, Covenant Seminary became the national seminary of the PCA, which elects and oversees the work of the seminary's Board of Trustees.

The Reformed Presbyterian church of Troy and Lansingburgh was incorporated December 21, 1831, but in the following year sold its property and disbanded.

The community there belonged to the Reformed observance within the Order, following a very strict routine of prayer, silence and fasting.

He travelled widely, spending most time in Strasbourg where he was in contact with leaders of the Reformed faith, and returned following the death of Mary and the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558.

Throughout its history Mid-America has prepared students for ordained ministry in the following confessionally Reformed and Presbyterian churches:

In other respects, however, both the Baptism and Burial services imply a theology of salvation that accords notably less with Reformed teachings than do the counterpart passages in the Articles of Religion.

Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French / Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland.

As Education Secretary, he had fights with the Dutch Reformed Church, of which he had once been a dedicated member, who demanded Calvinist teachings in schools.

However, consistent with the Reformed formula, “ We are justified by faith alone but not by a faith that is alone ”, salvific faith has overall been seen as one that effected obedience, with those teachings ( known somewhat imprecisely ) as the moral law in contrast to ceremonial law being retained in almost all Christian denominations.

The theology and practice of the Dutch Reformed Church, and its sister churches in the countries named, were based on the teachings of John Calvin and the many other Reformers of his time.

This brought the order almost to the point of dissolution, but it recovered sufficiently to offer strenuous resistance to the advance of the Reformed teachings.

From 1618 to 1619 the international Reformed churches, with representatives from several countries, met at the Synod or Council of Dordrecht ( Dordt ) in the Netherlands and there collectively stated their faith, summarizing biblical teachings in the Canons of the Council of Dordrecht.

Theologically, the Congregationalists spent much of the 19th century moving from orthodox Reformed concepts and teachings ( e. g., total depravity, limited atonement ) toward a decidedly more liberal orientation, facilitated by a group of Yale University-educated pastors in and around the time of the Civil War.

The classis principally objected to the ESNA's admixture of Lutheran teachings with Calvinist practices ; most of its churches and members descended from late 19th-century immigration from parts of Germany where Reformed confessionalism had taken hold.

Examples of Camping's teachings which varied from conventional Reformed doctrines include:

The new perspective has been heavily criticized by conservative scholars in the Reformed tradition, arguing that it undermines the classical, individualistic, Augustinian interpretation of election and does not faithfully reflect the teachings of the Scriptures.