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Encyclopedia Britannica



HELVETIC CONFESSIONS

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 253 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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