Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland
The Non- Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland (non- underwriting Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Irish Eaglais Preispitéireach Neamh - na hÉireann aontaithe ) is a liberal Protestant church in Ireland with a focus in the historic Northern Ireland County Antrim and Down
History
The movement of the Non- Subscribing Presbyterians in Ireland was in 1725, as ministers of the Presbyterian Church to John Abernethy occasion of its inauguration, the signature for the recognition ( subscription) Westminster Confession refused and banded together for the Presbytery of Antrim, as they are the Bible its a sufficient source beliefs regarded. A second group, the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster was established in 1829 as 17 communities around the liberal and influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment theologian Henry Montgomery left the Presbyterian Synod of Ulster. These two main groups represented in the northeast of the island joined in 1910 for Non- Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland together in 1935 joined the Synod of Munster in the southwest of the island at.
The church now consists of 33 municipalities (31 in Northern Ireland, two in the Republic ) in three presbyteries with about 4,100 members.
Theology
The Non- Subscribing Presbyterians reject written by people confessional writings and their liability from the individual believer as well as for the church out of respect for the individual faith of the individual. The Non- Subscribing Presbyterians represent claims to a liberal and tolerant form of the Christian faith, in the center of the guided with the aid of reason and conscience own individual interpretation of the Bible.
Ecumenism
The Non- Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland is the Irish Council of Churches, the European Liberal Protestant Network and the International Association for Religious Freedom connected and cooperates closely, so in the training of theologians, with the in the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches merged British Unitarians.