Dordrecht Confession of Faith

The Dordrecht Confession ( actually creed of defense and revenge less Christianity ) is a 1632 Dutch Mennonite Dordrecht authored by Christian creed. It has in the spun-off from the Mennonites Amish still of great importance. The commitment includes 18 articles.

As Mennonites do not know binding confessional writings, the Dordrecht confession must be viewed primarily as a crucial agreement. It should summarize the main points of the Mennonite doctrine.

History

The Dutch- North German Anabaptists were split at the end of the 16th century in several directions, such as the Water country, Flemish and Frisians. So sometimes there were several Mennonite communities in one place. In an effort to lead the communities back together already several Mennonite confessions as the concept of Cologne from 1591 or 1627 formulated Olijftacxken ( ≈ olive branch ) emerged around 1600. The 21 -article Korte Confessie by Jan cents of 1630, for example, played a crucial role in the Association of Flemish, Frisian young and high German communities in Amsterdam in 1639.

The Dordrecht Confession itself was adopted in the Dutch city of Dordrecht on 21 April in 1632. It was an agreement Flemish municipalities in the first place, but was later also adopted by representatives of other communities. The Mennonite communities in southern Germany and Alsace, subsequently joined by the Dordrecht Confession. From the Swiss Mennonite confession was not accepted because they rejected (other than the Amish ) strict avoidance ( as formulated in Article 17). The Dordrecht Confession is in Amish communities still in use.

In 1664 appeared the German translation of the Dordrecht Confession. It was released by Tielemann van Sittert. The German edition was framed by a preface to the Christian reader and a non-denominational historical appendix.

The 18 articles dealt with the following topics:

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