Is the Church of Scotland Fundamentally Different to the Church of England?
Saturday, September 4th, 2010 at
5:26 pm
Is there any significant difference in practice and ideology between the two churches, or are they more or less the same simply one is based in Scotland and the other in England, so they are named as such?
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European history is so interesting. i think it is amazing people could have been duped to buy into national religion.
Scotland is a Presbyterian Church.
England is a Catholic and Reformed Church.
Presbyterianism refers to a number of different Christian churches adhering to the Calvinist theological tradition within Protestantism. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Bible and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ.
Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek adjective καθολικός (katholikos), meaning "universal".[1] In the context of Christian ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages. For Roman Catholics, the term "Catholic Church" refers to the Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, including both the Western particular Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. Protestants sometimes use the term "catholic church" to refer to the entire body of believers in Jesus Christ across the world, and across the ages.
The Reformed churches are a group of Christian Protestant denominations formally characterized by a similar Calvinist system of doctrine, historically related to the churches that first arose especially in the Swiss Reformation led by Huldrych Zwingli and soon afterward appeared in nations throughout Western and Central Europe