Schools
The Assembly parties — the blocs discernible in the 1643–1649 debates — and the confessional communities that adopted, adapted, or revised the Standards after the Assembly closed. Each school has a complete 35-attribute ontology profile showing where it departs from the Westminster baseline.
Two kinds of school
Assembly parties are the blocs that formed inside the 1643–1649 sessions: the English Presbyterian majority who drafted the text, the Scottish Commissioners who pressed jure-divino presbyterianism, the Five Dissenting Brethren who argued for Independent congregational polity, the Erastians who wanted the magistrate supreme, the Hypothetical Universalists who broadened the atonement's scope, and the Supralapsarians who held election prior to the fall. Each party's 35-attribute profile shows its characteristic departures from the baseline the Standards eventually adopted.
Receiving traditions are the confessional communities that took up the Westminster Standards after the Assembly closed — adopting them wholesale (the Free Church of Scotland, 1843), revising them for a new context (the American 1788 revision), or adapting them with deliberate departures (the 1689 Particular Baptists on baptism, the Cumberland Presbyterians on the decree). Each tradition's profile shows where it departs from the 1646 original.
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