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    "wcf-1647": {
      "id": "wcf-1647",
      "title": "Westminster Confession: historical English text",
      "institution": "Westminster Assembly; Philip Schaff, editor",
      "date": "1647; Schaff fourth edition, 1919",
      "url": "https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds3/creeds3.iv.xvii.ii.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Hosted baseline; original English with modernized spelling/punctuation and original section numbering. Underlying historical text is U.S. public domain.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "assembly-documents": {
      "id": "assembly-documents",
      "title": "Principal Documents of the Assembly: Facsimile Editions",
      "institution": "Westminster Assembly Project",
      "date": "Online scholarly introduction, accessed 2026",
      "url": "https://westminsterassembly.org/principal-documents-of-the-assembly-facsimile-editions/",
      "type": "historical-scholarship",
      "scope": "Scholarly documentary project; manuscript and printing chronology.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "opc-revisions": {
      "id": "opc-revisions",
      "title": "American Revisions to the Westminster Confession",
      "institution": "Orthodox Presbyterian Church",
      "date": "1788 and later revisions; online comparison accessed 2026",
      "url": "https://opc.org/documents/WCF_orig.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "OPC account and comparison, not every Presbyterian church’s edition.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "opc-preface": {
      "id": "opc-preface",
      "title": "Preface to the Confession and Catechisms",
      "institution": "Orthodox Presbyterian Church",
      "date": "2005 publication; historical account of adoption through 1956",
      "url": "https://www.opc.org/documents/Preface.pdf",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Dates and extent of American/OPC changes.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "savoy": {
      "id": "savoy",
      "title": "Savoy Declaration: preface and differences from Westminster",
      "institution": "Congregational assembly at the Savoy; Philip Schaff, editor",
      "date": "1658; Schaff historical edition",
      "url": "https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds3/creeds3.v.i.i.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Congregational declaration, not a Presbyterian amendment.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "remonstrance": {
      "id": "remonstrance",
      "title": "The Remonstrance: Original Act, Five Articles",
      "institution": "Remonstrant ministers; Arminius Instituut",
      "date": "1610; articles in Schaff translation, surrounding material translated by Bert Dicou",
      "url": "https://arminiusinstituut.remonstranten.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2017/08/Remonstrantie-Orginal-Act-English.pdf",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Early Remonstrant articles, not every later Arminian position.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "pca-creation": {
      "id": "pca-creation",
      "title": "Report of the Creation Study Committee",
      "institution": "Presbyterian Church in America; PCA Historical Center",
      "date": "1999 report, with proposal for reporting to the 2000 Assembly",
      "url": "https://www.pcahistory.org/pca/studies/creation/report.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Committee report describing views, not itself an amendment or an individual court ruling.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "pca-bco-2024": {
      "id": "pca-bco-2024",
      "title": "Book of Church Order, 2024 edition",
      "institution": "PCA Office of the Stated Clerk",
      "date": "2024; amendments through the 51st General Assembly",
      "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/BCO-2024-1.pdf",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Dated PCA examination procedure; no claim about another jurisdiction or a later edition.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "scotland-act": {
      "id": "scotland-act",
      "title": "Act approving the Confession of Faith",
      "institution": "General Assembly of the Church of Scotland; historical Acts, Project Gutenberg transcription",
      "date": "27 August 1647; historical printed act",
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28957/pg28957-images.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Qualified Scottish reception of 31.2, not a personal subscription exception.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced.",
      "alternateUrl": "https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/1250/5611/125056113.23.pdf"
    },
    "augsburg": {
      "id": "augsburg",
      "title": "Augsburg Confession",
      "institution": "Lutheran confessors; BookOfConcord.org",
      "date": "1530; historical English translation online",
      "url": "https://thebookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession-single-page/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Identified Augsburg articles, not a survey of every modern Lutheran church.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "augsburg-will": {
      "id": "augsburg-will",
      "title": "Augsburg XVIII: Free Will",
      "institution": "Lutheran confessors; BookOfConcord.org",
      "date": "1530; historical English translation online",
      "url": "https://thebookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/article-xviii/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Identified Augsburg articles, not a survey of every modern Lutheran church.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "augsburg-sin": {
      "id": "augsburg-sin",
      "title": "Augsburg XIX: Cause of Sin",
      "institution": "Lutheran confessors; BookOfConcord.org",
      "date": "1530; historical English translation online",
      "url": "https://thebookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/article-xix/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Identified Augsburg articles, not a survey of every modern Lutheran church.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "augsburg-repentance": {
      "id": "augsburg-repentance",
      "title": "Augsburg XII: Repentance",
      "institution": "Lutheran confessors; BookOfConcord.org",
      "date": "1530; historical English translation online",
      "url": "https://thebookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/article-xii/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Identified Augsburg articles, not a survey of every modern Lutheran church.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "augsburg-civil": {
      "id": "augsburg-civil",
      "title": "Augsburg XVI: Civil Affairs",
      "institution": "Lutheran confessors; BookOfConcord.org",
      "date": "1530; historical English translation online",
      "url": "https://thebookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/article-xvi/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Identified Augsburg articles, not a survey of every modern Lutheran church.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "augsburg-power": {
      "id": "augsburg-power",
      "title": "Augsburg XXVIII: Ecclesiastical Power",
      "institution": "Lutheran confessors; BookOfConcord.org",
      "date": "1530; historical English translation online",
      "url": "https://thebookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/article-xxviii/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Identified Augsburg articles, not a survey of every modern Lutheran church.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "umc-confession": {
      "id": "umc-confession",
      "title": "Confession of Faith of the Evangelical United Brethren Church",
      "institution": "United Methodist Church",
      "date": "1963 confession; displayed from the 2016 Book of Discipline",
      "url": "https://www.umc.org/en/content/confession-of-faith",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Specific EUB/United Methodist standard, not universal Wesleyanism.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "dordrecht": {
      "id": "dordrecht",
      "title": "Dordrecht Confession of Faith",
      "institution": "Mennonite confessors; Mosaic Mennonite Conference hosted edition",
      "date": "1632; online English edition",
      "url": "https://mosaicmennonites.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Dordrecht-Confession-of-Faith.pdf",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Historic Mennonite confession, distinct from the Canons of Dort (1619).",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "baptist-covenant": {
      "id": "baptist-covenant",
      "title": "Second London Baptist Confession, 7: God’s Covenant",
      "institution": "Particular Baptist confessors; Founders Ministries",
      "date": "1677/1689; undated online modern-English edition",
      "url": "https://founders.org/library/chapter-7-gods-covenant/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Historical Particular Baptist confession in a modern rendering; not all Baptist churches.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "baptist-faith": {
      "id": "baptist-faith",
      "title": "Second London Baptist Confession, 14: Saving Faith",
      "institution": "Particular Baptist confessors; Founders Ministries",
      "date": "1677/1689; undated online modern-English edition",
      "url": "https://founders.org/library/chapter-14-saving-faith/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Historical Particular Baptist confession in a modern rendering; not all Baptist churches.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "baptist-church": {
      "id": "baptist-church",
      "title": "Second London Baptist Confession, 26: The Church",
      "institution": "Particular Baptist confessors; Founders Ministries",
      "date": "1677/1689; undated online modern-English edition",
      "url": "https://founders.org/library/chapter-26-the-church/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Historical Particular Baptist confession in a modern rendering; not all Baptist churches.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "baptist-baptism": {
      "id": "baptist-baptism",
      "title": "Second London Baptist Confession, 29: Baptism",
      "institution": "Particular Baptist confessors; Founders Ministries",
      "date": "1677/1689; undated online modern-English edition",
      "url": "https://founders.org/library/chapter-29-baptism/",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Historical Particular Baptist confession in a modern rendering; not all Baptist churches.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-tradition": {
      "id": "ccc-tradition",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Tradition and Scripture",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_one/chapter_two/artcile_2/ii_the_relationship_between_tradition_and_sacred_scripture.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-trinity": {
      "id": "ccc-trinity",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Father: Trinity and procession",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_one/article_1/paragraph_2_the_father.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-fall": {
      "id": "ccc-fall",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Fall",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_one/article_1/paragraph_7_the_fall.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-grace": {
      "id": "ccc-grace",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Grace and Justification",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_three/section_one/chapter_three/article_2.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-confession": {
      "id": "ccc-confession",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Acts of the penitent",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_two/section_two/chapter_two/article_4/vii_the_acts_of_the_penitent.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-sacraments": {
      "id": "ccc-sacraments",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Seven sacraments",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_two/section_two.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-eucharist": {
      "id": "ccc-eucharist",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Sacrament of the Eucharist",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_two/section_two/chapter_one/article_3/v_the_sacramental_sacrifice_thanksgiving_memorial_presence.index.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-marriage": {
      "id": "ccc-marriage",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Effects of Matrimony",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_two/section_two/chapter_three/article_7/iv_the_effects_of_the_sacrament_of_matrimony.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-purgatory": {
      "id": "ccc-purgatory",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Final purification: Purgatory",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_three/article_12/iii_the_final_purification%2C_or_purgatory.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-grace-life": {
      "id": "ccc-grace-life",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Grace",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_three/section_one/chapter_three/article_2/ii_grace.index.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "ccc-merit": {
      "id": "ccc-merit",
      "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church: Merit",
      "institution": "Holy See",
      "date": "1992 Catechism; English online text incorporating the 1997 typical edition",
      "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_three/section_one/chapter_three/article_2/iii_merit.index.html",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Catholic self-description used for comparison, not evidence of the Westminster divines’ motives.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Paraphrase only; no modern source text, site commentary or study-guide material reproduced."
    },
    "pca-wcf-2022": {
      "id": "pca-wcf-2022",
      "title": "PCA-adopted Westminster Confession: official publication",
      "institution": "Presbyterian Church in America, Administrative Committee / Christian Education and Publications",
      "date": "Official 2022 PDF; accessed 14 November 2026",
      "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Confession text compared directly, without copying its Scripture-proof apparatus.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Original editorial comparisons only; no full modern text, proofs or publisher commentary reproduced."
    },
    "pca-wcf-preface": {
      "id": "pca-wcf-preface",
      "title": "Preface to the PCA publication of the Westminster Standards",
      "institution": "Presbyterian Church in America, Administrative Committee / Christian Education and Publications",
      "date": "Official 2019-hosted file; title page identifies PCA adoption; copyrights 2005/2007",
      "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/WCFPreface.pdf",
      "type": "primary",
      "scope": "Publication identity and revision history; modern commentary paraphrased, not reproduced.",
      "accessedOn": "2026-11-14",
      "reuse": "Original editorial comparisons only; no full modern text, proofs or publisher commentary reproduced."
    }
  }
}