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REFORMED CHURCHES

ULRICH ZWINGLI

Finlyson Church in Tampere is  founded by James Finlayson of Scotland. Finlayson wanted to  a church resembling the church of their homeland to its workers. There is still a Reformed church in Scotland, characterized by white walls, no pictures, a pulpit on the altar site. 

              The meaning of the name                                      

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Purified from Catholic materials

Also called: Presbyterians and Calvinists

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In the 16th century, when the Swiss Zwingli and the French Calvin became acquainted with Luther's ideas

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No common center

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Simple,  sermon key

In the church, a wooden table on the altar site, no pictures, no church bells

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Baptism and the Lord's Supper (commemoration of Jesus)

supper 4 times a year,

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Independent churches around the world, not a common leader

The ideal of theocracy = a God-ruled state with the Bible as a law book

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The doctrine of predestination = the doctrine of predestination

God has predestined others to perdition others to salvation

The saved can be identified already in this life by good morals and success

A central role for the laity

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75 million

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