Non-Geographic Classes? Reformed Geography
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The Reformed Church in America is wrestling with an interesting question in ecclesiology and church order: is there a place within the church for so-called non-geographic classes. Non-geographic classes are classes which are not formed around a geographic regional principal, but by agreement in theological perspective or a peculiar way that a congregation is shaped. The question central to this article is then: is there a place in Reformed churches for non-geographical classes? In answering this question, the following will be considered: a similar proposal from the Gereformeerde Bond in the Netherlands Reformed Church in 1998; the geographic-regional principle; the Walloon Classis; the Classis of Holland; the Reformed Church in America; Flying, diocesan and titular bishops and finally a conclusion.
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B.A.M. Luttikhuis, Een grensgeval: Oorsprong en functie van het territoriale beginsel in het gerereformeerde kerkrecht, (Gorinchem: Narratio, 1992).
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Jean Taffin was a preacher in Metz 1561, Antwerp 1566, Metz 1567, Heidelberg 1569, Court of Prince William of Orange 1573, Antwerp 1583, Emden 1585, Haarlem 1856 and Amsterdam 1591; W.J. op ’t Hof, ‘Taffin, Jean,’ Biografisch Lexicon voor de Geschiedenis van het Nederlandse Protestantisme 4, o.r.v. J. van den Berg et al. (Kampen: Kok, 1998), 412-414.
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Rutgers, Acta, 245. See also the list of particular synods from the Synod of Dordrecht, 1578: ‘De verstroyde Walsche kercken in de nederlantsche steden een Synod’; Rutgers, Acta, 281. See also the list of the particular synods of the Synod of Middelburg, 1581: ‘Walscher kercken verstroyt onder den Nederduytschen een particul Synodus;’ Rutgers, Acta, 375.
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Non-Geographic Classes? Reformed Geography
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The Reformed Church in America is wrestling with an interesting question in ecclesiology and church order: is there a place within the church for so-called non-geographic classes. Non-geographic classes are classes which are not formed around a geographic regional principal, but by agreement in theological perspective or a peculiar way that a congregation is shaped. The question central to this article is then: is there a place in Reformed churches for non-geographical classes? In answering this question, the following will be considered: a similar proposal from the Gereformeerde Bond in the Netherlands Reformed Church in 1998; the geographic-regional principle; the Walloon Classis; the Classis of Holland; the Reformed Church in America; Flying, diocesan and titular bishops and finally a conclusion.
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