Orthodox Creed
{{Short description|General Baptist creedal document published in 1679}}
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The Orthodox Creed, also known as the Orthodox Confession of Faith, shortly the Orthodox Confession, or even the Buckingham Creed, is a General Baptist confession of faith.{{cite book |last1=Fiddes |first1=Paul S. |title=Tracks and Traces: Baptist Identity in Church and Theology |date=1 September 2007 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-59752-729-3 |page=199 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Adam |title=The History of the English General Baptists |date=1818 |publisher=T. Bore, Raven Row, Mile-End Turnpike |page=225 |language=en}} Drafted up after a Baptist regional assembly held in Buckinghamshire in 1678, the Orthodox Creed was intended to be an official creed of the General Assembly of General Baptists in England; it was adopted by the Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire Baptist Associations, and was influential within Baptist churches in England and America.{{Cite web| title=An orthodox creed: or, a protestant confession of faith | url=https://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/orthodox-creed.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011213241/http://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/orthodox-creed.pdf | archive-date=2013-10-11}}
Content
The Orthodox Confession is organized as an "essay to unite and confirm all true Protestants in the fundamental articles of the Christian religion". The confession includes 50 articles on the Triune God, christology, predestination,{{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=James Hurford |title=A Condensed History of the General Baptists of the New Connexion: Preceded by Historical Sketches of the Early Baptists |date=1847 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, and Company |page=131 |language=en}} covenant theology (teaching Baptist Federalism), free will, justification and santification, Sunday Sabbatarianism, Eucharistic sacramentology, Baptism, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Apostles Creed, and many other doctrines and practices.
References
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External links
- [http://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/orthodox-creed.pdf The Orthodox Creed] - confession of faith upheld by General Baptists