Original Research

Secession and the Reformed ('Dopper') Churches in South Africa

B. Spoelstra
In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi | Vol 23, No 92 | a842 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ids.v23i92.842 | © 1970 B. Spoelstra | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 17 May 1989 | Published:

About the author(s)

B. Spoelstra,, South Africa

Full Text:

PDF (603KB)

Abstract

The marks of the true church, as described in art. 29 of the Belgic Confession are applied by Calvin to the visible local congregation. During the Reformation local ministries were reformed in order to correspond to the marks of the true church of Jesus Christ.

Keywords

No related keywords in the metadata.

Metrics

Total abstract views: 2513
Total article views: 5592

 

Crossref Citations

1. The contested legacy of singing God’s inspired songs in the Reformed Churches in South Africa: The regulating role of the Word from Dordrecht to Totius and into the present
Simon N. Jooste, Johannes C. Potgieter
In die Skriflig / In Luce Verbi  vol: 54  issue: 2  year: 2020  
doi: 10.4102/ids.v54i2.2579