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===Christian confessions of faith=== [[File:Andreas Nunzer Übergabe der Augsburger Konfession 1530.jpg|thumb|[[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] receives the [[Augsburg Confession]] at the [[Diet of Augsburg]] on 25 June 1530]] Protestant denominations are usually associated with confessions of faith, which are similar to creeds but usually longer. * The ''Sixty-seven Articles'' of the Swiss reformers, drawn up by [[Zwingli]] in 1523 * The ''[[Schleitheim Confession]]'' of the [[Anabaptist]] [[Swiss Brethren]] in 1527 * The ''[[Augsburg Confession]]'' of 1530, the work of [[Martin Luther]] and [[Philip Melanchthon]], which marked the breach with [[Rome]] * The ''[[Tetrapolitan Confession]]'' of the [[German Reformed Church]], 1530 * The ''[[Smalcald Articles]]'' of Martin Luther, 1537 * The ''[[Guanabara Confession of Faith]]'', 1558 * The ''[[Gallic Confession]]'', 1559 * The ''[[Scots Confession]]'', drawn up by [[John Knox]] in 1560 * The ''[[Belgic Confession]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=The Belgic Confession|url=http://www.reformed.org/documents/BelgicConfession.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109220655/https://reformed.org/documents/BelgicConfession.html|archive-date=November 9, 2020|access-date=2013-01-23|publisher=Reformed.org}}</ref> drawn up by [[Guido de Bres]]<ref>{{cite web|date=2000-04-20|title=Guido de Bres|url=http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/debres.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006130349/http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/debres.htm|archive-date=October 6, 2020|access-date=2013-01-23|publisher=Prca.org}}</ref> in 1561 * The ''[[Thirty-nine Articles]]'' of the [[Church of England]] in 1562 * The ''[[Formula of Concord]]'' and its Epitome in 1577 * The ''[[Irish Articles]]'' in 1615<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ford|first=Alan|date=2007|title=James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and England|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274444.001.0001/acprof-9780199274444-chapter-5|access-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513152605/https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274444.001.0001/acprof-9780199274444-chapter-5|archive-date=13 May 2022|url-status=dead|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199274444}}</ref> * The ''[[Remonstrant Confession]]'' in 1621 * The ''[[Dordrecht Confession of Faith]]'' of Dutch Mennonites in 1632 * The [[1644 Baptist Confession of Faith|Baptist Confession of Faith]] in 1644 (upheld by Particular Baptists) * The ''[[Westminster Confession of Faith]]'' in 1647 was the work of the [[Westminster Assembly of Divines]] and has commended itself to the [[Presbyterian Church]]es of all English-speaking peoples, and also in other languages. * The ''[[Savoy Declaration]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=The Savoy Declaration 1658 – Contents|url=http://www.reformed.org/documents/Savoy_Declaration/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526210127/http://www.reformed.org/documents/Savoy_Declaration/|archive-date=May 26, 2020|access-date=2013-01-23|publisher=Reformed.org}}</ref> of 1658 which was a modification of the Westminster Confession to suit [[Congregationalist polity]] * The ''Standard Confession'' in 1660 (upheld by [[General Baptists]])<ref name="ChuteFinnHaykin2015">{{cite book |last1=Chute |first1=Anthony L. |last2=Finn |first2=Nathan A. |last3=Haykin |first3=Michael A. G. |title=The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement |date=2015 |publisher=B&H Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-4336-8316-9 |language=en}}</ref> * ''A Catechism and Confession of Faith'' in 1673 upheld by the [[Religious Society of Friends]] (Quakers)<ref name="Coffey2020">{{cite book |last1=Coffey |first1=John |title=The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689 |date=29 May 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-252098-2 |page=399 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Robert Barclay |date=1827 |publisher=Tract Association of the Society of Friends |page=22 |language=en}}</ref> * The ''Orthodox Creed'' in 1678 (upheld by General Baptists)<ref name="ChuteFinnHaykin2015"/> * The ''[[1689 Baptist Confession of Faith|Baptist Confession]]'' in 1689 (upheld by Reformed Baptists) * The ''Confession of Faith of the [[Calvinistic Methodists]] (Presbyterians) of Wales''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.creeds.net/cmwales/main.htm |title=Confession of Faith of the Calvinistic Methodists or Presbyterians of Wales |access-date=2013-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706212915/http://www.creeds.net/cmwales/main.htm |archive-date=2018-07-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> of 1823 * The ''[[New Hampshire Confession of Faith|New Hampshire Confession]]'' in 1833 (upheld by [[Landmarkism|Landmark Baptists]])<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Hill |editor-first=Samuel S. |date=1997 |title=Encyclopedia of Religion in the South |edition=Paperback |location=Macon, Georgia |publisher=[[Mercer University Press]] |page=533 |isbn=0-86554-588-X |lccn=97214301 |oclc=37706204 |ol=305677M}}</ref> * The ''[[Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral]]'' of the [[Anglican Communion]] in 1870 * The ''[[Richmond Declaration]]'' in 1887, upheld by Orthodox [[Gurneyite]] Quakers * The [[Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths]] in 1916 * The ''[[Confession of Faith (United Methodist)|Confession of Faith]]'' of the [[United Methodist Church]], adopted in 1968
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