Kenton Church

📍2115 North Lombard Street, Portland, OR ✝presbyterian

AI summary — doctrinal positions on this page are inferred by AI from this church's own public statements and may be inaccurate.

Inherited from denomination

What Evangelical Presbyterian Church teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Confessional standard: Westminster Confession of Faith · Westminster Larger Catechism · Westminster Shorter Catechism

Affirms

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.

Denies

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.
Women in pastoral / ordained officestandard
1 Timothy 2:12; 1 Corinthians 14:34; historic apostolic practice.

Wrestles with

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.

In their own words

Statements

about_us

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