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

"nuances — Calvin taught a "real spiritual presence" — Christ is truly received by faith through the Spirit, but His body remains in heaven. Not mere memorialism, but not corporeal presence."

"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."

"affirms_strongly — Infant baptism is the covenant sign, as circumcision was under the old covenant. Children of believers are covenant members and receive the sign."

"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."

"we are proud to be led by yet another woman of faith"

• Believer's BaptismSTRONG
  Baptist confessions; Pentecostal fundamentals; Anabaptist tradition
• Marriage as one man and one womanSTRONG
  Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6; historic universal Christian teaching.
• Permissibility of divorce and remarriagestandard
  Matthew 19:9 (adultery ground); 1 Corinthians 7:15 (abandonment ground). Practice varies.

• Apostolic Successionstandard
  Congregational and presbyterian polity reject the necessity of tactile episcopal succession.
• Assumption of Marystandard
  Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
• Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsSTRONG
  Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; historic universal Christian teaching.
• Immaculate ConceptionSTRONG
  Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
• Infant BaptismSTRONG
  Baptist confessions (New Hampshire; BFM 2000 VII); Anabaptist / Schleitheim; Pentecostal fundamentals
• Perpetual Virginity of Marystandard
  Natural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
• Real Presencestandard
  Memorialist / Zwinglian view; typical Baptist and Free Church position
• TransubstantiationSTRONG
  Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
• Women in pastoral / ordained officeSTRONG
  1 Timothy 2:12; 1 Corinthians 14:34; historic apostolic practice.

• Pacifism vs. just-warweak
  Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.