The Fundamental Principle of Reformed Church Polity (1)

The father of Reformed Church Polity is John Calvin. It was he, who, through, his insistence on the legal parity of the officebearers in the church, levelled, conceptionally, the Roman hierarchy to the ground and restored to the church its offices. The Roman Hierarchy, in its completed form, was an imposing structure. It rose, from the lower clergy as its base, through rank upon rank of dignitaries of always greater power, to its apex, the pope, the father of all, the vicegerent of Christ on...