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HELVETIC CONFESSIONS

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 253 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HELVETIC CONFESSIONS , the name of two documents expressing the See also:

common belief of the reformed churches of See also:Switzerland. The first, known also as the Second See also:Confession of See also:Basel, was See also:drawn up at that See also:city in 1536 by See also:Bullinger and See also:Leo See also:Jud of See also:Zurich, Megander of See also:Bern,See also:Oswald See also:Myconius and See also:Grynaeus of Basel, See also:Bucer and See also:Capito of See also:Strassburg, with other representatives from See also:Schaffhausen, St See also:Gall, Mifhlhausen and See also:Biel. The first draft was in Latin and the Zurich delegates objected to its Lutheran phraseology.' Leo Jud's See also:German See also:translation was, however, accepted by all, and after Myconius and Grynaeus had modified the Latin See also:form, both versions were agreed to and adopted on the 26th of See also:February 1536. The Second Helvetic Confession was written by Bullinger in 1562 and revised in 1564 as a private exercise. It came to the See also:notice of the elector See also:palatine See also:Friedrich III., who had it translated into German and published. It gained a favourable hold on the Swiss churches, who had found the First Confession too See also:short and too Lutheran. It was adopted by the Reformed See also:Church not only throughout Switzerland but in See also:Scotland (1566), See also:Hungary (1567), See also:France (1571), See also:Poland (1578), and next to the See also:Heidelberg See also:Catechism is the most generally recognized Confession of the Reformed Church. See L. See also:Thomas, La Confession. helvetique (See also:Geneva, 1853) ; P. See also:Schaff, See also:Creeds of Christendom, i. 390-420, iii. 234-306; See also:Muller, See also:Die Bekenntnisschriften der ref ormierten Kirche (See also:Leipzig, 1903).

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