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Westminster Confession of Faith

Westminster Assembly
1646 (Confession); 1648 (Larger and Shorter Catechisms) · English
Confessional document · Seventeenth-century English Reformed theology

The 1646 Westminster Confession — Reformed confessional standard of English-speaking Presbyterianism

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Attribute Westminster Confession of Faith (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Scripture
Observer · Theological Method —
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

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Time

Westminster Confession of Faith

The historical moment of the English Civil War.

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Space

Westminster Confession of Faith

Westminster Abbey assembly; the Reformed world.

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Matter

Westminster Confession of Faith

The embodied confessing church.

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Observer

Westminster Confession of Faith

The confessing Reformed believer.

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Energy

Westminster Confession of Faith

Energies of confessional precision.

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Information

Westminster Confession of Faith

The thirty-three-chapter doctrinal corpus.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Westminster Confession of Faith

The Westminster Confession: foundational doctrinal standard of English-speaking Presbyterianism; central reference for Reformed-Calvinist theology.