Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know
- ...that Peter Martyr Vermigli was allegedly challenged to a duel with a double-edged axe by Theodore Bibliander over the doctrine of double predestination?
- ...that as he lay dying, the American Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen declared that there is no hope without the active obedience of Christ?
- ...that John Duncan, a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and missionary, was affectionately known as "Rabbi", due to his knowledge of Hebrew and his passion for the Jewish people?
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- ... that the design of the Third Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Ohio, may have been patterned after the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/2
- ...that John Calvin's works include some 1,300 letters, making him "the great letter-writer of the Reformation age" according to B. B. Warfield?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/3
- ...that for the first four decades of its existence, the altar of the Reformed Dutch Church in Bloomingburg, New York, was on the same end as the main entrance?
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- ... that the 1919 demolition of "one of the most costly religious edifices" in New York City, the 1906 Madison Square Presbyterian Church, was called "a distinct architectural loss"?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/5
- ...that the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, is the oldest continuously serving Presbyterian church in the United States?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/6
- ...that Peter Martyr Vermigli was allegedly challenged to a duel with a double-edged axe by Theodore Bibliander over the doctrine of double predestination?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/7
- ...that in Reformed theology, baptism is believed to be a replacement for circumcision as a rite signifying forgiveness of sin?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/8
- ...that in Reformed theology, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper is believed to strengthen Christians' union with Christ by the spiritual eating of his true body and blood?
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- ...that Peter Martyr Vermigli's best known work, the Loci Communes, is a compilation of excerpts from his biblical commentaries published after his death?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/10
- ...that the early American minister Francis Doughty had a proclivity for witch-hunting?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/11
- ...that as he lay dying, the American Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen declared that there is no hope without the active obedience of Christ?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/12
- ... that criticisms made by John Cotton (pictured) about the doctrine of preparationism were a factor in the Antinomian Controversy and Anne Hutchinson's banishment from Massachusetts in 1638?
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- ... that Reformed theologian G. I. Williamson, in the tradition of Puritan Sabbatarianism, says viewing television, newspapers or magazines is improper for Sunday Sabbath?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/14
- ...that John Duncan, a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and missionary, was affectionately known as "Rabbi", due to his knowledge of Hebrew and his passion for the Jewish people?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/15
- ... that the Presbyterian Church of Victoria was formed in 1859 as a union of Church of Scotland, Free Presbyterian and United Presbyterian congregations?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/16
- ... that five-thousand types of communion tokens have been issued by Presbyterian churches?
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- ... that Scottish religion in the seventeenth century included intense conflicts between Presbyterian Covenanters and government forces?
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- ... that the 1643 Westminster Assembly was appointed by Parliament to restructure the Church of England and produced the Westminster Confession, which is the foundation of the Presbyterian Church?
Portal:Reformed Christianity/Did you know/19
- ... that Robert Dick Wilson was a leading Bible scholar who was able to read the New Testament in nine different languages while still at Princeton University, and strongly defended the Bible's historical accuracy?
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- ... that Glasgow's Wellington Church was founded in 1792 as an Anti-Burgher congregation?
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