"rejects — Succession of doctrine, not office. What matters is faithfulness to apostolic teaching, not an unbroken chain of ordination."

"rejects — Rejected. The Heidelberg Catechism Q80 condemned the Mass as "a condemnable idolatry." Christ's body is in heaven, not locally present in the elements."

"rejects — No scriptural basis. Mary was a sinner saved by grace like all believers. Rom 3:23 — "all have sinned." The doctrine is seen as a post-biblical development."

"rejects — No scriptural evidence. This is seen as a late medieval development with no apostolic basis."

• Infant Baptismstandard
  Westminster XXVIII; Book of Concord SC IV; Council of Trent Session VII; Wesleyan Articles Art. XVII
• Marriage as one man and one womanstandard
  Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6; historic universal Christian teaching.
• Permissibility of divorce and remarriageweak
  Matthew 19:9 (adultery ground); 1 Corinthians 7:15 (abandonment ground). Practice varies.
• Women in pastoral / ordained officeweak
  Various denominational actions (TEC 1976, ELCA 1970s, PC(USA) 1956, AG 1935, CofE 1994 priests / 2014 bishops, etc.)

• Apostolic Successionweak
  Congregational and presbyterian polity reject the necessity of tactile episcopal succession.
• Assumption of Maryweak
  Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
• Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsstandard
  Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; historic universal Christian teaching.
• Immaculate Conceptionstandard
  Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
• Perpetual Virginity of Maryweak
  Natural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
• Transubstantiationstandard
  Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.

• Believer's Baptismweak
  Paedobaptist bodies practice adult baptism on credible profession where infant baptism was omitted, but do not consider it normative.
• Pacifism vs. just-warweak
  Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
• Real Presenceweak
  Calvin's spiritual presence (genuinely present but not physically) is neither strong affirm nor deny; Anglican/Methodist typically hold a receptionist view.
• Theotokosweak
  Confessionally valid title (Ephesus is a received council) but not used devotionally; retained in liturgy where liturgy is retained.