Confessions & Catechisms
- Nicene Creed (381) — The Trinity and the person of Christ, confessed East and West
- Chalcedonian Definition (451) — Christ, one person in two natures
- Council of Orange (529) — Grace against semi-Pelagianism (529)
- Apostles' Creed (710) — The baptismal creed of the Western church
- Athanasian Creed (800) — The Trinity and the incarnation in precise terms
- Waldensian Confession (1120) — The pre-Reformation confession of the Waldenses
- Zwingli's 67 Articles (1523) — Zwingli's theses for the first Zurich disputation
- Ten Theses of Berne (1528) — The Bernese Reformation's opening theses
- Tetrapolitan Confession (1530) — Strasbourg and three sister cities, Augsburg 1530
- First Confession of Basel (1534) — Oecolampadius and Myconius
- First Helvetic Confession (1536) — The first common Swiss confession
- Consensus Tigurinus (1549) — Calvin and Bullinger agree on the sacraments
- French Confession of Faith (1559) — The Gallican Confession, drafted from Calvin
- Scots Confession (1560) — Knox and the Scottish Reformation
- Belgic Confession (1561) — Three Forms of Unity · Guido de Brès
- Second Helvetic Confession (1562) — Bullinger's confession, widely received
- Heidelberg Catechism (1563) — Three Forms of Unity · "What is your only comfort?"
- Canons of Dort (1619) — Three Forms of Unity · the Synod's answer to the Remonstrants
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) — The Westminster Standards
- Westminster Larger Catechism (1647) — The Westminster Standards
- Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) — The Westminster Standards · "What is the chief end of man?"
- 1689 London Baptist Confession (1677) — The Second London Baptist Confession
- 1695 Baptist Catechism (1695) — Keach and Collins' catechism
- Matthew Henry's Scripture Catechism (1703) — The Shorter Catechism opened with Scripture questions
- Keach's Catechism (1794) — The Baptist catechism as Spurgeon's churches knew it
- Catechism For Young Children (1840) — Joseph Engles' "First Catechism"
- Puritan Catechism (1855) — Spurgeon's catechism for his congregation
- Abstract of Principles (1858) — Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1858