Denomination
Anglican
A Trinitarian shelf for Anglican churches, including those called Episcopal, with links to their own doctrine pages.
This shelf is for the Anglican tradition, including churches that use the name Episcopal. They confess the Trinity: one God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This page does not summarize Anglican or Episcopal teaching. It lists doctrine pages those churches publish. See the denomination list and Christianity.
- What Do Anglicans Believe?: Quotes the Articles of Religion, the Church of England’s history page, and the Episcopal Church’s belief statement, beside the Catholic Catechism, and it does not choose a side.
Episcopal Church vs Anglican: What Is the Difference? quotes the Episcopal Church, the Church of England’s history, and the Anglican Church in North America’s constitution. It does not choose a side.
These pages quote the Articles of Religion beside the other churches:
- Do Catholics Believe Mary Was Sinless?
- Is Praying to Saints in the Bible?
- What Is Transubstantiation?
- Can Eastern Orthodox Priests Marry?
They do not choose a side.
Can you lose your salvation? quotes Articles XVI and XVII beside the other churches. It does not choose a side.
These pages quote the Articles of Religion beside the other churches:
- What Do Protestants Believe?
- What Bible Do Catholics Use?
- How Was the Bible Canon Decided, and What Is the Apocrypha?
- Who Started the Catholic Church?
- What Do Christians Believe About Mary?
- Is Purgatory Biblical?
They do not choose a side.
These pages quote Articles VI and XVII beside the other churches:
They do not choose a side.
Official Sources
These links open pages on the body’s own site, or on the site of its official publisher. Each entry names the document, who issues it, and what the page is.
Church of England
- Articles of Religion
Church of England
The Articles of Religion from the Book of Common Prayer, on the Church of England website.
- The Book of Common Prayer
Church of England
The Book of Common Prayer as published on the Church of England website.
The Episcopal Church
- What We Believe
The Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church’s page stating what the church believes.
Anglican Church in North America
- To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism
Anglican Church in North America
The approved edition of To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism, hosted by the Anglican Church in North America.
- Constitution and Canons
Anglican Church in North America
The constitution and canons of the Anglican Church in North America. Article I contains the fundamental declarations.
Start Here
The shared confession and the councils these pages quote.
Salvation and the Last Things
Where these churches disagree about grace, perseverance, and the end. Each page quotes the texts and does not pick a side.
- Once Saved, Always Saved?
Once saved, always saved means a saved person cannot lose salvation. Churches disagree, and this page quotes each side’s confession without deciding.
- What Does the Bible Say About Predestination?
Romans, Ephesians, and Acts say God predestined and ordained. Other verses say God wills all to be saved. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Catechism, Article XVII, and an Orthodox essay read those lines differently.
- What Is TULIP Calvinism?
TULIP stands for total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. Dort did not use the name.
The Churches
Comparisons that quote this church beside the others. They do not pick a side.
- Can Eastern Orthodox Priests Marry?
An Orthodox clergy answer says a married man may be ordained deacon or priest, once, and may not marry after ordination. The OCA’s Trullo essay says bishops are celibate. Catholic Canon 277 binds clerics to celibacy. Anglican Article XXXII says priests may marry.
- Catholic vs Protestant: What's the Difference?
Catholics and Protestants confess the Nicene Christ. They differ on authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary, purgatory, and the pope.
- Do Catholics Believe Mary Was Sinless?
Ineffabilis Deus in 1854 defines Mary as preserved from original sin at her conception. The Catechism adds that she remained free of every personal sin. An Orthodox clergy answer calls that definition foreign. Augsburg and Article IX speak of original sin in everyone naturally born.
- Eastern Orthodox vs Protestant: What's the Difference?
Both confess the Nicene faith. Their texts differ on Scripture and Tradition, justification, Mary and the saints, icons, and the filioque.
- Episcopal Church vs Anglican: What Is the Difference?
The Episcopal Church says it is the only U.S.-based member of the Anglican Communion, established in 1785, and it confesses the Trinity.
- How Was the Bible Canon Decided, and What Is the Apocrypha?
Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.
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- Eastern Orthodox vs Protestant: What's the Difference?
Both confess the Nicene faith. Their texts differ on Scripture and Tradition, justification, Mary and the saints, icons, and the filioque.
- Episcopal Church vs Anglican: What Is the Difference?
The Episcopal Church says it is the only U.S.-based member of the Anglican Communion, established in 1785, and it confesses the Trinity.
- How Was the Bible Canon Decided, and What Is the Apocrypha?
Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.
- Is Praying to Saints in the Bible?
The Council of Trent says it is good and useful to invoke the saints, and that the honour of images is referred to the prototypes. The Catechism calls image honour veneration, not the adoration due to God alone. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints.
- Is Purgatory Biblical?
Catholic teaching names a purification after death for the saved. Westminster and Article XXII say Scripture has no such place.
- What Bible Do Catholics Use?
The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.
- What Do Catholics Believe?
Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.
- What Do Christians Believe About Mary?
The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.
- What Do Protestants Believe?
Protestant churches confess that Jesus is God the Son and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination.
- What Is Transubstantiation?
The Catechism quotes Trent: the whole substance of the bread and wine is changed into the body and blood of Christ, and that change is called transubstantiation. Article XXVIII says that change cannot be proved by holy Writ. An Orthodox essay does not use the word and denies that the gifts are mere symbols.
- Who Started the Catholic Church?
The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.