“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
James 1:27
“…after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.”
Acts 26:5
“And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.”
Gal. 1:14
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Order of Contents
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Articles
1500’s
Zwingli, Ulrich – Commentary on True & False Religion eds. Jackson & Heller (1525; Labyrinth Press, 1981)
‘The Word ‘Religion’’ 56-58
‘Between whom Religion Subsists’ 58
‘Religion’ 87-98
‘The Christian Religion’ 98-118
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1600’s
Ames, William – ch. 4, ‘Religion’ in The Marrow of Theology tr. John D. Eusden (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2, pp. 236-40
Ames (1576-1633) was an English, puritan, congregationalist, minister, philosopher and controversialist. He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the reformed and the Arminians. Voet highly commended Ames’s Marrow for learning theology.
Hoornbeek, Johannes – ch. 2, section 1, ‘On the Division of Religion into Faith & Love’ in Practical Theology (1663/1666/1689/1698) tr. Charles Johnson
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1700’s
De Moor, Bernard – ch. 3, ‘On Religion’ in Continuous Commentary
Outline
1. Etymology of “Religion”
2. Synonymy of “Religion”
3. Homonymy of “Religion”
4. Definition of “Religion”
5. Acts of Religion
6. Knowledge as a Necessary Act of Religion
7. Is Universal Doubt Necessary for the Knowledge of God?
8. Is Clear & Distinct Perception Necessary for the Knowledge of God?
9. Definition of “Fundamental Articles”
10-11. Controversy with Rome over Fundamental Articles, pt. 1, 2
12. Criteria for Fundamental Articles
13. Reduction of Fundamental Articles to Heads
14-15. Controversy concerning the Number of Fundamental Articles, pt. 1, 2
16. Necessary, Genuine Sense of the Articles
17. Things Opposed to True Religion in General: Impiety and Superstition
17. Denial of the Principia–Infidelity
17. Denial of Fundamentals–Heresy, pt. 1, 2, 3
17. Schism
17. Error
17. Apostasy
18. General Marks Differentiating True & False Religion
19. Specific Marks Differentiating True & False Religion
20. Free Confession of True Religion
20. Prudent Confession of True Religion
20. Against Religious Syncretism, pt. 1, 2
21. Tolerance
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Book
Zwingli, Ulrich – True & False Religion
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Latin Article
1600’s
Wettstein, Gernler & Buxtorf – 1. Theology & Religion in General in A Syllabus of Controversies in Religion which come between the Orthodox Churches & whatever other Adversaries, for material for the regular disputations… customarily held in the theological school of the academy at Basil (Basil, 1662), pp. 3-4
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“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.”
James 1:26
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