Westminster Assembly (Q1886961)

Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Westminster Assembly of Divines was a council of divines (theologians) and members of the English Parliament appointed from 1643 to 1653 to restructure the Church of England. Several Scots also attended, and the Assembly's work was adopted by the Church of Scotland. As many as 121 ministers were called to the Assembly, with nineteen others added later to replace those who did not attend or could no longer attend. It produced a new Form of Church Government, a Confession of Faith or statement of belief, two catechisms or manuals for religious instruction (Shorter and Larger), and a liturgical manual, the Directory for Public Worship, for the Churches of England and Scotland. The Confession and catechisms were adopted as doctrinal standards in the Church of Scotland and other Presbyterian churches, where they remain normative. Amended versions of the Confession were also adopted in Congregational and Baptist churches in England and New England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Confession became influential throughout the English-speaking world, but especially in American Protestant theology.

Summary from Français / French Wikipedia (frwiki)

L’assemblée de Westminster (en anglais : Westminster Assembly of Divines) fut constituée par les membres du Long Parlement dans le but de restructurer l’Église d'Angleterre. L’assemblée constituante comprenait également les représentants de dignitaires religieux écossais. Réunie pendant six ans, de 1643 à 1649, elle a défini les fondements du presbytérianisme dans une collection de documents, appelée Standards de Westminster, comprenant notamment la confession de foi de Westminster.

Summary from Deutsch / German Wikipedia (dewiki)

Als Westminstersynode (engl.: Westminster Assembly) bezeichnet man das puritanisch-presbyterianische Kirchenkonzil im 17. Jahrhundert, das vom britischen Parlament zur Neuordnung der Kirche von England einberufen wurde. An der Synode, die in der Westminster Abbey tagte, waren auch Kirchenvertreter aus Schottland beteiligt. Die Synode dauerte insgesamt sechs Jahre (1643–1649). Sie verfasste verschiedene Schriften, darunter die Westminster Confession of Faith, einen großen (Westminster Larger Catechism) und einen kleinen Katechismus (Westminster Shorter Catechism), sowie eine allgemeine Gottesdienstordnung (Westminster Directory of Public Worship, auch Directory of Public Worship genannt). Diese Schriften gelten noch heute als zentrale Bekenntnisschriften der presbyterianischen Kirchen.

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