Lunch & Learn beginning on January 11th

Creeds and Confessions of the Reformed Tradition - 12:00 PM (after Fellowship Time)

The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) consists of two volumes. Part I of the Constitution is the Book of Confessions, which contains the official texts of the confessional documents. Part II of the Constitution, the Book of Order. 

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) states its faith and bears witness to God’s grace in Jesus Christ in the creeds and confessions in the Book of Confessions. In these statements the church declares to its members and to the world who and what it is, what it believes, and what it resolves to do… “ (F-2.01, the Purpose of Confessional Statements)

The creeds, confessions and catechisms of the Book of Confessions are both historical and contemporary. Each emerged in a particular time and place in response to a particular situation. 

Dates and Creed/Confession:  

January 11 - From Creed to Confession 

January 25 - the Barmen Declaration (1934) 

February 8 - Confession of 1967 

February 22 - the Belhar Confession (written 1982, adopted by the PCUSA 2016)

April 26 - Accra Confession (The Accra Confession was adopted by the delegates of the 2004 General Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) in Accra, Ghana, a predecessor body of the WCRC, and then reaffirmed at the 2010 Uniting General Council at which WARC merged with the Reformed Ecumenical Council to form the WCRC.)