Church and State in Article 36 of the Belgic Confession (2)

(This article is a continuation of Prof. Hanko's contribution to the Special Issue, which dealt with the Reformed Faith concerning civil government.) We ought now to take a closer look at Article 36 and attempt to understand what it is saying and why it is still important. In order to understand why this article was included in the Belgic Confession to begin with, one has to know a bit about the situation which existed in the Lowlands at the time the Belgic Confession was written by Guido de...