Een verkennend onderzoek naar de receptie van een anti-hiërarchisch beginsel in Nederlandse kerkorden van het gereformeerde type

No authority or domination: An exploratory study of the reception of an anti-hierarchical principle in Dutch reformed-type church orders. The Confessio Gallicana (1559) states: ‘We believe that all true pastors, wherever they may be, have the same authority and equal power under one head, one only sovereign and universal bishop, Jesus Christ; and that consequently no Church shall claim any authority or dominion over any other’ (Cochrane 2003:155). In this study I explore the reception of this article in the successive reformed church orders in the Netherlands, especially in those of the period... Mehr ...