nonlinearfruit / creeds.json Goto Github PK
View Code? Open in Web Editor NEWStructured copies of Reformed creeds, confessions and catechisms. Readily useful for software applications.
Structured copies of Reformed creeds, confessions and catechisms. Readily useful for software applications.
Letter to the Trallians
Be deaf when anyone speaks to you apart from Jesus Christ, Who was of the stock of David, Who was...
Tony Costa pg 24
Expand the Shema to include the greatest commandment (that is how Jesus sites it in Mark).
Mark 12:28-30
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ (ESV)
Deuteronomy 6:4-5
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (ESV)
Tony Costa pg 28
A Matthew Henry style catechism
https://reformed.org/master/index.html?mainframe=/documents/fisher (missing some questions and other errors)
Not all creeds are created equal and I had to obtain explicit permission from copyright holders. This may not be immediately obvious to everyone looking at the repo. So we should:
Maybe we should add this?
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/flavel/An Exposition of the Assembly's - John Flavel.pdf
Here is chapter one (of about 100?)
Of Man's Chief End
WHAT is the chief end of man?
A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
Q. 1. Seeing a chief supposeth an inferior end; what is that inferior
end for which man was made?
A. It is prudently, soberly, and mercifully, to govern, use, and dispose
of other creatures in the earth, sea, and air, over which God gave
man the dominion; Gen. 1:26. And God said let us make man in our
own image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth. So Psal. 8:6. Thou madest him to have dominion over the
works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.
Q. 2. What then is to be thought of those men, who being wholly
intent upon inferior things, forget and neglect their principal end?
A. They are dead whilst they live; 1 Tim. 5:6. But she that liveth in
pleasure, is dead whilst she liveth: They have their portion in this
life; Psal. 17:14. From men of the world, which have their portion in
this life, and their end is destruction, Phil. 3:19. Whose end is
destruction.
Q. 3. How can a man glorify God, seeing he is perfectly glorious in
himself?
A. Man cannot glorify God by adding any new degree of glory to him;
Job 35:7. If thou be righteous, what givest thou him, but by
manifesting his glory with the lips? Psal. 50:23. Whoso offereth
praise, glorifieth me; or with the life; Matth. 5:16. Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify
your Father which is in heaven.
Q. 4. Wherein consists the enjoyment of God?
A. It consists, first, in the facial vision of him in heaven. Secondly, in
full conformity to him; 1 John 3:2. But we know, that when he shall
appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Thirdly, in
that full satisfaction which results from both the former; Psal. 17:15. I
shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.
Q. 5. Can none enjoy him in heaven, who do not glorify him on
earth?
A. No adult person can scripturally expect happiness in heaven
without holiness on earth; Heb. 12:14. And holiness, without which
no man shall see the Lord. Rom. 8:30. Whom he justified, them he
also glorified.
Q. 6. How comes the glory and enjoyment of God our chief end?
A. He is our Master, and rightful Owner and Benefactor; we receive
our being and preservation from him, of him, and through him, and
therefore to him be all things, Rom. 11:36.
Q. 7. Do all men make God their chief end?
A. No, they do not; some make their sensual pleasure their chief end:
Phil. 3:19. Whose God is their belly: and some the world, Col. 3:5.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, and
covetousness, which is idolatry.
Q. 8. What are the signs of a man's making himself his chief end?
A. Those make themselves their chief end, who ascribe the glory of
what they have, or do, to themselves, and not to God; Dan. 4:30. The
king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon which I have built?
Isa. 10:18. For he saith, by the strength of my hand have I done it;
and by my wisdom, for I am prudent; therefore they sacrifice to their
own net, and burn incense unto their drag, Hab. 1:16.
Q. 9. Why are the glorifying and enjoying of God put together, as
making up our chief end?
A. Because no man can glorify God, that takes him not for his God;
and none takes him for his God, that takes him not for his supreme
good; and both these being essentially included in this notion of the
chief end, are therefore justly put together.
Q. 10. What is the first truth inferred hence?
A. That God hath dignified man above all other creatures on earth, in
giving him a capacity of glorifying God here, and of enjoying him
hereafter.
Q. 11. What is the second truth inferred hence?
A. That the soul of man is not annihilated by death, but advanced by
it; Phil. 1:21. To die is gain. V. 23. Having a desire to depart, and to
be with Christ, which is far better.
Q. 12. What is the third truth inferred hence?
A. That it is the duty and wisdom of every Christian to renounce,
deny, and forsake all inferior interests and enjoyments, when they
come in competition with the glory of God, and our enjoyment of
him: Luke 14:33. So likewise whosoever he be of you, that forsaketh
not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Q. 13. What is the fourth inference hence?
A. That we are to abhor and renounce all those doctrines and
practices, that debase the glory of God, and exalt and magnify the
creature.
Original title was:
A Confession of Faith put forth by the Elders and Brethren of many Congregations of Christians, Baptized upon Profession of their Faith in London and the Country. With an Appendix concerning Baptism
According to Philip Schaff (c. 1890) (source)
New source should be this? https://archive.org/details/confessionoffait00char/page/52/mode/2up
I'm not 100% sure this is correct. The chapter on Marriage (that I was originally looking into) is 26. But almost all other sources cite it as being chapter 25 (eg founders, reformed standards)
See Q1 for example
All 'ContentWithProofs' that has something of the form /\[\d+\]/
should have a corresponding 'Proof' with matching id.
Here is Reformed Standards implementation of this test:
https://github.com/reformed-standards/compendium/blob/master/test/validate_data_files.py#L35
PR #2 sparked this idea and found the sources for it.
Keach's Catechism is a variant of the original 1695(ish) "A Brief Instruction in the Principles of Christian Religion". Adding this earlier addition to our collection would be fantastic
"Metadata": {
"Title": "1695 Baptist Catechism",
"AlternativeTitles": [
"Brief Instruction in the Principles of Christian Religion"
],
"Year": "1695",
"Authors": [
"William Collins"
],
"Location": "London, England",
"OriginalLanguage": "English",
"OriginStory": "",
"SourceUrl": "http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100026931442.0x000001#?#ark:/81055/vdc_100026931451.0x00000a&c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=8&xywh=-64,0,2839,1783",
"SourceAttribution": "Public Domain",
"CreedFormat": "Catechism"
}
Helpful source on the subject: https://pettyfrance.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/the-baptist-catechism-commonly-but-falsely-called-keachs/
Like Augsburg Confession or New City Catechism or such.
Where do we put them?
Mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_agahRSkHPU
Is this it?
https://ccel.org/ccel/gregory_thau/writings/anf06.iii.iv.i.iv.html
Tests to make sure all the Scripture references are formatted consistently and are a valid Scripture reference
This is a spin off of #47
- [+] first genevan confession (1536)
- [+] irish articles (1615)
- [+] lambeth articles (1595)
- [+] second bohemian confession (1575)
- [+] second scotch confession (1580)
- [?] 42 english articles (1553)
- [?] calvin's articles on predestination
- [?] confession for church at paris (1557)
- [?] confession for french churches, to be presented to emperor (1562)
- [?] confession of sigismund (1614)
- [?] consensus of geneva (1552)
- [?] declaration of thorn (1645)
- [?] evangelical counsel of ansbach (1524)
- [?] genevan confession (1537)
- [?] genevan students' confession (1559)
- [?] hungarian confession (1570)
- [?] leipzig colloquy (1631)
- [?] walcheren articles (1693)
- [?] zwingli's expositio chr. fidei (1531)
- [D] a plain catechism for children
- [D] confession of english congregation at geneva (1558)
- [D] craig's catechism (1581)
- [D] genevan catechism (1545)
- [©] first bohemian confession (1535)
- [©] cambridge declaration (1996)
- [©] statement on social justice & the gospel (2018)
? - Can't find
~ - Mehh, maybe?
© - Copyright request
D - Difficult (format not supported yet)
+ - Have url in README
Title: The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines, now by authority of Parliament sitting at Westminster, concerning a confession of faith : with the quotations and texts of Scripture annexed ; presented by them lately to both Houses of Parliament
Year: 1647
source: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_Christian_creeds#/Reformed
source: https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/warfield/warfield_predestconf.html
source: https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/ccc/index.cfm
Westminster Standards
Three forms of unity
London Baptist
Ancient church
The Apostles' Creed
The Nicene Creed
Athanasian Creed
Chalcedonian Definition
The Second Helvetic Confession
Savoy Declaration of Faith
Catechism for Young Children
source: https://reformedstandards.com
source: https://opc.org/os.html?article_id=595&issue_id=121
SWISS
FRENCH
GERMAN
ENGLAND
THE CREEDS OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH (IN .PDF FORMAT)
THE CREEDS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (IN .PDF FORMAT)
Schleitheim Confession (Annabaptist) 1527
Dordrecht (Mennonite) Confession of Faith 1632
London Baptist of Faith 1689
New Hampshire Confession of Faith (Baptist) 1833
Abstract of Principles (Baptist) 1858
The Baptist Faith and Message 2000
Savoy Declaration 1658 (Congregational)
Being united and elected through the true passion by the will of the Father... There is one Physician... conceived in the womb by Mary, of the seed of David
Ignatius, Letter to the Ephesians, Greetings; 7:2; 18:2
For example:
relevant: https://www.opc.org/documents/WCF_orig.html
Or
Or
Can we do something better than unlicense? Can we make it more available?
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2022/08/05/Public-Domain-Software
Current formats
Future formats
So many creeds are 'based off of' earlier creeds. Recording this information (to be able to display it) would be nice.
A setting to remove 'revision noise' would be nice (all the various versions of the apostles/nicene/wcf). Maybe there could be a setting to group creeds by family (even when choosing which creeds to display), the if someone wanted, they could display only one creed from each family.
Can be reused without permission. Could be worth adding?
https://archive.org/details/confessionoffait00char/page/n103/mode/2up
Comes from a variant of the London Baptist
In the CoD, the 3rd and 4th heads of doctrine are combined. Do we represent that chapter with '3' or '4' or '3/'4 or '3&4' and do we represent 5th head of doctrine (4th chapter) with a '5'?
I actually think it would be cool to include these distinct variations of the Westminster Confession
These appear to be duplicates. Which is correct?
{
"Number": "2d",
"Question": "Are we thereby entered into Christ's school?",
"Answer": "Yes: Jesus made and baptized disciples, John 4:1."
},
{
"Number": "2e",
"Question": "And listed under his banner?",
"Answer": "Yes: As good soldiers of Jesus Christ, 2 Tim. 2:3."
}
vs
{
"Number": "3b",
"Question": "Are we thereby entered into Christ's school?",
"Answer": "Yes: Jesus made and baptized disciples, John 4:1."
},
{
"Number": "3c",
"Question": "And listed under his banner?",
"Answer": "Yes: As good soldiers of Jesus Christ, 2 Tim. 2:3."
}
1 Cor 8:6 (Christian Shema)
yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (ESV)
Include both? Just 325? Just 381? What?
381 expands the ending on the Holy Spirit
[and the Son] added in 589 (Counsel of Toledo)
Tony Costa pg 21
Right now it is a copy of Keach's Catechism but there are some differences
Should this be included?
https://statementonsocialjustice.com/#affirmations-and-denials
Here are the references that were problematic:
Deuteronomy 6:4
Matthew 16:16
Colossians 1:15-20
Philippians 2:6-11
Patriarchal Creed (God of Abramham, Isaac and Jacob)
1 Cor 14:26
Eph 5:14
1 Peter 2:22-24
Hebrews 1:2b-4
John 1:1-18
Deuteronomy 26:5-9
“And you shall make response before the LORD your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders. And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. (ESV)
yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (ESV)
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (ESV)
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. (ESV)
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, (ESV)
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. (KJV)
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. (KJV)
_ For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,_ (ESV)
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory. (ESV)
Jesus is Lord
concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, (ESV)
More:
For all Contents/Questions/Answers (that do not end with WithProofs
), check that they do not contain footnotes
(Idea came from #46)
Can we cleanly use Typescript just for testing?
Matthew Henry-style
http://www.shortercatechism.com/resources/vincent/
Prescriptions 13
Now with regard to this rule of faith - that we may at this point acknowledge what it is we defend - it is, you must know, that which prescribes the belief...
Tony Costa pg 24
Ahoy 👋
This repo has been enormously helpful to me as I built https://www.catechesis.app/, so thanks!
(repo here: https://github.com/steveszc/catechesis)
Catechesis is a single-page web app built with Ember.js and written in typescript.
Since I was working in typescript with npm/webpack I ended up copying most of the catechism data and converting it into JS POJOs that could be typed with typescript and imported as ES modules directly in my TS app. I also had to make some additions and alterations to the schema to support things like catechism question commentaries, audio, and prayers.
Long story short, even though I essentially hard-forked the data from this repo, I think I'd benefit a lot from being able to directly depend on this package. And if I was able to depend on it directly I could help maintain it, make improvements, etc.
But there's a decent amount of work to get the existing json into a format that could be published to NPM and consumed in a project like mine. I'm wondering if you have any interest in pursing this, or if you have any thoughts on how best to enable projects in the JS/npm ecosystem to use the work you've done here.
This would help with data validation/testing and with displaying
(Shoutout to Reform Standards for this idea <3)
Huldrych Zwingli, Sixty-Seven Articles (1523)
Huldrych Zwingli, Short and Christian Instruction (1523)
The Ten Theses of Bern (1528)
The Confession of the East Friesland Preachers (1528)
William Farel, Summary (1529)
Huldrych Zwingli, Fidei ratio (1530)
The Tetrapolitan Confession (1530)
Confession of Vaudois (1530 or 1531)
Huldrych Zwingli, Exposition of Christian Faith (1531)
Articles of the Bern Synod (1532)
The Synod of Chanforan (1532)
The Confession of Angrogna (1532)
The (First) Basel Confession (1534)
The Bohemian Confession (1535)
The Lausanne Articles (1536)
The First Helvetic Confession (Second Basel Confession) (1536)
John Calvin, Catechism (1537)
John Calvin, Geneva Confession of Faith (1536/37)
John Calvin, Catechism (1538)
Waldensian Confession of Merindol (1541)
The Confession of the Waldensians of Provence (1543)
The Confession of the Vaudois of Merindol (1543)
Walloon Confession of Wessel (1544/45)
John Calvin, Catechism (1545)
Juan Diaz, Suma de la Relijion Cristiana (1546)
Juan Valdes, Catechism (1549)
Consensus Tigurinus (1549)
Thomas Cranmer, Anglican Catechism (1549)
The London Confession od John a Lasco (1551)
The Large Emden Catechism; or Catechism of the Immigrant Church in London (1551)
The Confession of the Glastonbury Congregation (1551)
Confessio Rhaetiae (1552)
John Calvin, Consensus Genevensis (1552)
The Forty-Two Articles of the Church of England (1552/53)
Anglican Catechism (1553)
Emden Examination of Faith (1553)
The Frankfort Confession (1554)
The Emden Catechism (1554)
The Confession of Piotrków (1555)
Confession of the English Congregation at Geneva (1556)
Waldensian Confession of Turin (1556)
Confession of the Italian Church of Geneva (1558)
Guanabara Confession (1558)
Geneva Students’ Confession (1559)
Confession of Marosvásárhley/Vásárhelyi (1559)
The French Confession (1559)
Confession of Piñczow (1559)
Lattanzio Ragnoni’s Formulario (1559)
The Confession of Faith in the Geneva Bible (1560)
The Scottish Confession (1560)
The Waldensian Confession (1560)
The Prussian-Vilnian Discussion (1560)
Theodore Beza’s Confession (1560)
The Confession of the Spanish Congregation of London (1560/61)
Waldensian Confession (1561)
Theodore Beza’s Confession at Poissy (1561)
The Belgic Confession (1561)
The Hungarian Confessio Catholica (1562)
The Confession of Tarcal (1562) and Torda (1563)
The Thirty-nine Articles (1562/63)
The Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
The Synod of Enyedi (1564)
The Second Helvetic Confession (1566)
The Antwerp Confession (1566)
The Netherlands Confession (1566)
The Synod of Gönc (1566)
Synod of Torda (1566)
The Synods of Gyulafehérvár and of Marosvásárhely (1566)
Documents of the Debrecen Synod (1567)
The Synod at Sziksz (1568)
Confession of the Synod of Cassov (1568)
Confession of Varadiensis/Nagyvrad (1569)
Sandomierz Consensus (1570)
The Confession of the Synod of Csenger (1570)
The Confession of La Rochelle (1571)
The Bohemian Confession (1573)
The Synod of Cracow (1573)
The Bohemian Confession (1575/1609)
The Synod of Hercegsz'l'ski (1576)
The Confession of Frederick III (1577)
The Nassau (Dillenburger Synod) Confession (1578)
The Synod of Piotrkow (1578)
Craig's Catechism (1581)
The King's Confession (1581)
The Synod of Wlodislaw (1583)
General Synod of Herborn (1586)
The Synod of Thorn (1595)
The Bremen Consensus (1595)
The Lambeth Articles (1595)
The Second Confession of the London-Amsterdam Church (1596)
The Stafforts Book (1599)
The Points of Difference (1603)
Waldensian Confession (1603)
Confession of the Synod of Cassel (1607)
Hessian Catechism (1607)
Confession of the Heidelberg Theologians (1607)
The Remonstrance (1610)
The Counter Remonstrance (1611)
The Bentheim Confession (1613)
Confession of the Evangelical Church of Germany (1614)
The Confession of John Sigismund (1614)
The Irish Articles (1615)
Scottish Confession (1616)
Seven Articles of the Church of Leiden (1617)
The Cannons of Dort (1618–1619)
The Confession of Cyril Lukaris (1629)
Leipzig Colloquy (1631)
The London Baptist Confession (1644)
Brief Confession of the Westminster Assembly (1645)
The Colloquy of Thorn (1645)
The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)
The London Confession (1646)
Benjamin Cox’s Baptist Appendix (1646)
Westminster Larger Catechism (1647)
Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)
The Geneva Theses (1649)
The Cambridge Platform (1648)
The Principles of Faith (1652)
A New Confession of Faith (1654)
The Midlands Confession (1655)
Waldensian Confession (1655)
The Somerset Confession (1656)
The Savoy Declaration (1658)
Waldensian Confession (1662)
The Formula Consensus Helvetica (1675)
The London Baptist Confession (1677)
The Baptist Catechism (1693)
https://github.com/reformed-standards/compendium
License: Apache 2.0
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
A PHP framework for web artisans
Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. 📊📈🎉
JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.
Some thing interesting about web. New door for the world.
A server is a program made to process requests and deliver data to clients.
Machine learning is a way of modeling and interpreting data that allows a piece of software to respond intelligently.
Some thing interesting about visualization, use data art
Some thing interesting about game, make everyone happy.
We are working to build community through open source technology. NB: members must have two-factor auth.
Open source projects and samples from Microsoft.
Google ❤️ Open Source for everyone.
Alibaba Open Source for everyone
Data-Driven Documents codes.
China tencent open source team.