ORTHODOX CHURCH CATHOLIC CHURCH CHURCH DIFFERENCE 1054 PROTESTANT CHURCHES THE LUTHERAN CIRCLE REFORMED CHURCHES CHURCH OF ENGLAND OTHER PROTESTANT COMMUNITIES HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF FINLAND
REFORMED CHURCHES
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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Number of supporters
Purified from Catholic materials
Also called: Presbyterians and Calvinists
In the 16th century, when the Swiss Zwingli and the French Calvin became acquainted with Luther's ideas
No common center
Simple, sermon key
In the church, a wooden table on the altar site, no pictures, no church bells
Baptism and the Lord's Supper (commemoration of Jesus)
supper 4 times a year,
Independent churches around the world, not a common leader
The ideal of theocracy = a God-ruled state with the Bible as a law book
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
75 million