Second-order doctrines
Second-order doctrines
Divides churches and communions, but not salvation. Scoring weight 2 (method).
Second-order doctrines weight 2
Nature of justification
Forensic imputation or infused/transformative righteousness; faith alone?
S02Baptism: subjects
Infants, or believers only.
S03Baptism: effect
Regeneration, or sign and seal; necessity.
S04Eucharist: presence
Transubstantiation, mystery, sacramental union, spiritual presence, memorial.
S05Eucharist: sacrifice
Is the Mass or Liturgy a sacrifice?
S06Number and nature of sacraments
Seven, two, or ordinances; the other rites.
S07Scripture and tradition
Sola scriptura, or Scripture with tradition and magisterium; canon.
S08Papal primacy and infallibility
The Petrine office and Vatican I.
S09Church government
Episcopal, presbyterian, congregational; apostolic succession.
S10Ordination to the presbyterate
Classic positions on who may be ordained.
S11Predestination and election
Unconditional or conditional; free choice.
S12Extent of the atonement
Particular or general.
S13Perseverance of the saints
Can a true believer finally fall away?
S14Original sin: guilt or corruption
Inherited guilt, or inherited mortality and corruption.
S15Filioque
The procession of the Holy Spirit.
S16Chalcedonian and miaphysite wording
'In two natures' or 'one incarnate nature'; two wills.
S17Purgatory and prayers for the dead
Purification after death; praying for the departed.
S18Invocation of saints and Marian dogmas
Asking saints to pray; Immaculate Conception, Assumption.
S19Veneration of icons and relics
Honouring or rejecting images and relics.
S20Penal substitution and satisfaction
Christ bore the penalty or satisfied divine justice in our place.