The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s own official page describing its Book of Confessions, Part I of the denomination's own constitution. The page states directly that the Book of Confessions contains eleven formal statements of faith, creeds, confessions and catechisms, and cites the Westminster Confession of Faith by its own internal paragraph reference (6.160) as one of the eleven, alongside the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms. As the denomination's own official statement of its own constitutional documents, it is the strongest possible source for what that denomination formally confesses; it is not a source for how any individual congregation or member understands or emphasizes those documents in practice.
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Reliability Tier1
Tier one: the denomination's own official statement of its own constitutional confessional standards, published on its own site, a custodian source rather than an outside account of what the church confesses. No publisher property is set beyond the denomination itself; the page is part of the church's own official website rather than a separately imprinted publication. Citation
AuthorPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
URLhttps://pcusa.org/confessions
Source TypeOfficial doctrinal statement
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This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Creeds & Confessions, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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