Back Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis AF Belgická konfese Czech Y Gyffes Felgig CY Niederländisches Glaubensbekenntnis German Confesión belga Spanish Belgialainen uskontunnustus Finnish Confessio Belgica French Pengakuan Iman Belanda ID Confessione di fede belga Italian 네덜란드 신앙고백 Korean
The Confession of Faith, popularly known as the Belgic Confession, is a confession to which many Reformed churches subscribe as a doctrinal standard. The Confession forms part of the Three Forms of Unity,[1] which are the official subordinate standards of the Dutch Reformed Church.[2]: 187 [3] The confession's chief author was Guido de Brès, a Walloon Reformed pastor,[3] active in the Low Countries, who died a martyr to the faith in 1567, during the Dutch Reformation.[2]: 185 The name Belgic Confession follows the 17th-century Latin Confessio Belgica. Belgica referred to the whole of the Low Countries, both north and south, which today is divided into the Netherlands and Belgium.
- ^ Horton, Michael (2011). The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan. p. 1002. ISBN 9780310409182.
- ^ a b Cochrane, Arthur (2003). Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664226947.
- ^ a b Latourette, Kenneth; Winter, Ralph (1975). A History of Christianity. Vol. 2. Prince Press. p. 764. ISBN 9781565633292.