Consensus

Consensus ( Latin for agreement , agreement in dogmatic disputes ; hence the title of the relevant documents and writings). This includes u. a. the Consensus Sendomiriensis 1570 (on the doctrines of the Incarnation of Christ and the Lord's Supper ) agreed for the purpose of a union of the Augsburg, Bohemian and Helvetian denominations of the Polish provinces at Sandomir .

Several consensus have been passed within the Reformed Church , as follows:

the Consensus Tigurinus of 1549, which, drawn up by John Calvin in 26 articles on the doctrine of the Lord's Supper , approved by Bullinger , sought to mediate between the Zwinglish and Calvinist doctrinal concepts, but never achieved great prestige;
the Consensus Genevensis (Consensus pastorum) , which was also written by Calvin in 1552 and contains the doctrine of predestination in the strict Calvinist sense, but has not found any official acceptance by the other Swiss churches ;
the Consensus Helveticus (Formula Concordia Helvetica) , written in 1674 by Johann Heinrich Heidegger and Franz Turretin , professors in Zurich and Geneva, and especially directed against Moses Amyraut's doctrine of general grace in 26 articles, introduced in Switzerland in 1675 and 1676, but as a result the contradiction that was raised against it in Kurbrandenburg and England, and even in Switzerland, was deprived of its symbolic reputation in the beginning of the 18th century.

Within the Lutheran Church came about:

the Consensus Dresdensis of 1571, the creed of the electoral Saxon theologians in the negotiations preceding the adoption of the formula of concord , and

the Consensus repetitus fidel vere Lutheranae , the unification formula suspended against Georg Calixt by the Saxon theologians in 1655, but which has not achieved a symbolic reputation.

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