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An ontology of the Westminster confessional landscape

Westminster Standards Atlas

An atlas of the world the Westminster divines actually argued in: Scripture, the decree, covenant, the person of Christ, the application of redemption, the moral law, polity and worship, and the last things. Eight loci, each with its own attributes; the Confession's own position marked as WCF against every alternative the Assembly debated.

8 loci · 35 attributes · 181 personas · 30 cruxes · 39 heads · 6 works · 16 schools
From the Standards · WCF XXXI.3 · Of Synods and Councils

It belongeth to synods and councils, ministerially, to determine controversies of faith, and cases of conscience; to set down rules and directions for the better ordering of the public worship of God, and government of his Church; to receive complaints in cases of maladministration, and authoritatively to determine the same: which decrees and determinations, if consonant to the Word of God, are to be received with reverence and submission, not only for their agreement with the Word, but also for the power whereby they are made, as being an ordinance of God, appointed thereunto in his Word.