Belgic Confession

Title page of a 1566 copy

The Confession of Faith, popularly known as the Belgic Confession, is a confession to which many Reformed churches subscribe as a doctrinal standard. The Confession forms part of the Three Forms of Unity,[1] which are the official subordinate standards of the Dutch Reformed Church.[2]: 187 [3] The confession's chief author was Guido de Brès, a Walloon Reformed pastor,[3] active in the Low Countries, who died a martyr to the faith in 1567, during the Dutch Reformation.[2]: 185  The name Belgic Confession follows the 17th-century Latin Confessio Belgica. Belgica referred to the whole of the Low Countries, both north and south, which today is divided into the Netherlands and Belgium.

  1. ^ Horton, Michael (2011). The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan. p. 1002. ISBN 9780310409182.
  2. ^ a b Cochrane, Arthur (2003). Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664226947.
  3. ^ a b Latourette, Kenneth; Winter, Ralph (1975). A History of Christianity. Vol. 2. Prince Press. p. 764. ISBN 9781565633292.

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