Fundamental Articles (other)
Fundamental Articles may refer to: *Fundamental articles (theology), a concept in Protestant theology *Fundamental Articles of 1871 The Fundamental Articles of 1871 (german: Fundamentalartikel, cz, Fundamentálky) were a set of proposed changes to the Austro-Hungarian constitution regarding the status of the Bohemian Crownlands. Their rejection was largely responsible for the ...

Fundamental Articles (theology)
''Fundamental articles'' (''articuli fundamentales fidei'') was a term employed by early Protestant theologians, who wished to distinguish some essential parts of the Christian faith from non-essential doctrines. There were then a number of reasons for establishing such a distinction. Individual churches might accept or reject parts of doctrine, without forfeiting their claim to rank as parts of the universal Church. Therefore, theologians might find a dogmatic basis for union between separated churches. Also, the arguments of Catholics could be answered in a polemical way. To Protestants, the fundamental articles are those that Christians must believe to be saved. Catholic attacks on this concept have been based on the argument that it is incoherent. Sixteenth century The first to advance the theory seems to have been George Cassander (1513–66), a Catholic by religion. In his work "De officio pii ac publicae tranquilitatis vere amantis viri in hoc religionis dissidio" (1561), h ...
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