The Westminster Assembly (1 July 1643 – 1653) was a council of theologians and members of the English Parliament appointed to restructure the Church of England. As many as 121 ministers were called to the Assembly, with 19 replacements added later. The Assembly worked in the Reformed Protestant theological tradition, also known as Calvinism. It produced new standards for church governance, a Confession of Faith or statement of belief, two catechisms or manuals for religious instruction, and a liturgical manual, the Directory for Public Worship, for the Church of England and Church of Scotland. The Confession and catechisms were adopted as doctrinal standards in the Church of Scotland and other Presbyterian churches, where they remain normative. Amended versions of the Confession were also adopted in Congregational and Baptist churches in England and New England in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Confession became influential throughout the English- speaking world, but especially in American Protestant theology.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1770:

Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.015 AU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexell%27s_Comet

1862:

American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee unsuccessfully launched a series of disjointed assaults on the nearly impregnable Union position on Malvern Hill in Henrico County, Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Malvern_Hill

1943:

Tokyo City was dissolved, with its territory divided into the special wards of the newly created Tokyo Metropolis (Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo

1999:

Legislative governance of Scotland was transferred from the Scottish Office in Westminster to the Scottish Parliament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament

2008:

Rioting erupted in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the recent legislative elections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_riot_in_Mongolia

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

tortoni:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tortoni

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true.   --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg