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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.

Time

Westminster Confession of Faith

The historical moment of the English Civil War.

Space

Westminster Confession of Faith

Westminster Abbey assembly; the Reformed world.

Matter

Westminster Confession of Faith

The embodied confessing church.

Observer

Westminster Confession of Faith

The confessing Reformed believer.

Energy

Westminster Confession of Faith

Energies of confessional precision.

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.