Church of Scotland

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "The Church of Scotland that emerged, Presbyterian in government and Calvinist in doctrine, became the kirk of the realm."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Church of Scotland, community-edited."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "Faith Ratification Act that made the Church of Scotland the kirk of the realm."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "for decades, nine years before the Church of Scotland adopted the Westminster Confession of Faith in 1647, already recorded here."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "detail on the Westminster Assembly and Church of Scotland revision and authorization process."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "of England with representatives of the Church of Scotland present, completed the Westminster Confession of Faith, already recorded here as Presbyterianism's own doctrinal standard, decades after the..."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "public register entry for The Church of Scotland General Trustees (charity number SC014574), showing filed annual income and expenditure for the years 2021 through 2025."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "relationship with the established Church of Scotland."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: "The Church of Scotland remains the national church, established but not governed by the crown, which is why England and Scotland are catalogued as separate regions in this atlas."

This source names Church of Scotland directly: " church government as the polity of the Church of Scotland."

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Reformed in doctrine, from the Scots Confession of 1560.

Presbyterian in polity, governed by courts of elders rather than bishops.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Monastical vows are rejected as superstitious and sinful snares in which no Christian may entangle himself.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The Confession denies that the elements are to be reserved, lifted up, carried about or worshipped, and calls such uses contrary to the nature of the sacrament.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Religious worship is not made more acceptable by the place in which it is performed, and this is the ground on which pilgrimage falls.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The rosary falls under the refusal of prayer to Mary and of set repetition as a means of acceptance.

The Church of Scotland is national but not established in the English sense: the sovereign is a member of it rather than its Supreme Governor, swears at accession to preserve its Presbyterian government, and appoints no minister within it.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The Confession holds that there are two sacraments only, baptism and the Lord's Supper, and that neither may be dispensed by any but a lawfully ordained minister.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The Heidelberg Catechism forbids the making of any image of God and refuses to allow images in churches as books for the unlearned, on the ground that God would have his people taught by the preaching of his word.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Prayer is to be made to God alone and, since the fall, in the name of Christ, and to no other.

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The kirk session of elders governs the congregation, and elders are ordained for life.

The gown, with bands, is the ordinary dress of a Church of Scotland minister in the pulpit.

The Church of Scotland's reformation was carried out on the Genevan pattern and the Institutes is the book behind its confession and its polity alike.

The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by a Church of Scotland minister who set unemployed craftsmen to rebuild the abbey alongside trainee ministers, remains a dispersed ecumenical community based there.

The minister of a parish is inducted by the presbytery and is a teaching elder within the kirk session.

Received in the Church of Scotland Reformed inheritance, alongside the Westminster Confession.

Sung from the metrical psalter the Kirk authorised in 1650, which is the text heard at Scottish weddings and funerals rather than the prose of the Bible.

The Church of Scotland holds the Westminster Confession as a subordinate standard, and that confession excludes Tobit, the sole scriptural source for Raphael, from the canon.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Almsgiving is treated as a duty of the whole congregation and was made an office of the church, the deacon's, rather than left to private charity.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Baptism is by pouring or sprinkling, and the Confession states plainly that dipping is not necessary.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Baptism is a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, and the Confession teaches that its efficacy is not tied to the moment it is administered.

Observed today, but the Kirk suppressed Christmas after 1640 and it was not a public holiday in Scotland until 1958, so the present observance is a restoration rather than an unbroken keeping.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Solemn fastings are named in the Westminster Confession as a part of religious worship, kept on particular occasions rather than by a fixed calendar.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The Reformed burial was deliberately plain, and the Westminster Directory directed that the body be interred without ceremony, which is a reaction against the medieval rite rather than an absence of one.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Ordination is to the offices of minister, elder and deacon, by a body of ministers rather than by a bishop, and it is not a sacrament.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptised, and the Confession calls it a great sin to contemn or neglect the ordinance.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Marriage is not a sacrament, and the Confession treats it under the law of God rather than under the ordinances of the church.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The Christian Sabbath is kept with a rigour found nowhere else in Christianity: the whole day set apart, ordinary works, words and thoughts about worldly employments and recreations laid aside. This is the plainest Reformed distinctive in practice.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Prayer is treated as the chief exercise of faith, and the Heidelberg Catechism makes it the whole of its third part, on thankfulness.

The Church of Scotland's own General Assembly authorized this metrical psalter for public worship in 1650, after Scottish revisors spent two years and four months reworking the Westminster Assembly's initial draft; first sung publicly in Glasgow the same year and still part of the church's worship inheritance. Distinct from the pre-existing Presbyterianism edge, since this documents the specific national church that commissioned and first adopted it rather than the broader confessional family.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The breaking of the bread is emphasised as a sign in itself, and the Reformed rite made the minister break the bread in the sight of the people.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country.

The Claim of Right of 1842, the Disruption of 1843 and the Church of Scotland Act 1921 settled that the church holds its spiritual jurisdiction from Christ and not from the state, which the state acknowledges rather than grants.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The words of institution are read as a warrant for the action, and the Reformed rite makes the reading of them a separate declaratory act.

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