单词 | confession of faith |
释义 | > as lemmasConfession of Faith a. (More fully Confession of Faith.) A formulary in which a church or body of Christians sets forth the religious doctrines which it considers essential; an authoritative declaration of the articles of belief; a creed.Sometimes applied to the ancient œcumenical creeds; but more usually to the formulated statements of doctrine put forth by the various Reformed churches in the 16th and 17th centuries, of which that of Augsburg (1530) was the earliest, and the first (1560) and second (1580–1) Confession of Faith of the Church of Scotland, and the Westminster Confession (1643–7), are most noted in the history of Great Britain. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] credoeOE trothc1175 creance1393 trutha1400 symbol1490 confession1536 judgement1609 persuasion1623 creed1676 Shemaa1699 shahāda1885 creditability1886 1536 Taverner (title) The Confession of the Faith of the Germans, exhibited at Augusta; to which is added The Apology of Melancthon defending the said Confession. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Euensong f. vi Vpon Trinitie Sonday, shalbe song or sayd..this confession of our christian fayth. 1561 (title) The confessione of the fayth and doctrin beleved and professed by the Protestantes of the realme of Scotland exhibited to the estates of the sam in Parliament. 1571 J. Northbrooke (title) A Breefe and Pithie Summe of the Christian Faith, made in Fourme of a Confession. 1580 (title) The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland or the National Covenant. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) Pref. sig. ¶¶4 The confessions themselues..are these, the Anglicane, the Scotiane, French, Heluetian former, and later, the Belgie, Polonie, Argentine, Augustane, Saxonicke, Wirtenbergicke, Palatine, Bohemicke or Weldensian confession. 1632 J. Story tr. Short Surv. Sweden 76 To professe the reformed religion, according to the confession of Ausbourg or Augustane confession. 1643 Acts Gen. Assembly Edinb. 19 Aug. Sess. 14 The union of this Island in one Form of Kirk-government, one Confession of Faith, one Catechism. 1836 R. Whately Elem. Logic (ed. 6) 371 App. The correctness of a formal and deliberate confession of Faith, is not always, of itself, a sufficient safeguard against error. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) iv. 149 The Nicene Creed remained the one public confession. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 132 We see the same men..uttering assents to confessions of which they really reject every syllable..and who do not know that they are acting a part, and making a mock both of their own reason and their own probity. < as lemmas |
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