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Chinese Church is a Reformed one. Its landmark credo for the Heidelberg Catechism belongs to Calvin Christian faction.

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About Reformed tradition
The use of the word "Reformed" is in order to make differences of Calvinistic and Lutheran and Anabaptist traditions.The founders of Reformed tradion are the first Zurich reforemer-Ulrich Zwingli(484-1531) and John Calvin(1509-64) in Geneva,what'more,Calvin developed a set of Protestant Theology in his Bible, booklets Series, especially in the book of Institutes of Christian Religion. From the Church Reformation until now there are many people and groups following Calvin's lesson, but they don't advance entirely following the same line of thinking or the development.Therefore, The Calvinism of Reformed tradition almost agree with and similar to each other in mang ways, but because of historical or geographical environment, there are also many differences. These differences make the formation of many routes or door-to-door in this tradition.

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Religious Reformation and Refoemed tradition
The first line developed by Reformed tradition is shared by the north-western Europe, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and Germany,which always affects the eastern part of Hungary and Valdesia Church in southern Italy. Reformed church, in these areas, was active in the preparation of an early confession of faith and the Catechism,which was regarded as the standard of doctrines by mang of church. Calvin drafted the first catechism of reformed church in 1537 and revised it in 1541.This work has been translated into many languages,which has a great influence. More important, the Heidelberg Cathecism issued in 1563,is still the standard of belief confession document in most of the European reformed church.. The Belgic Confession also clearly stated the position of Calvinistic doctrine.

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