Explore the foundational documents of the Continental Reformed and English Presbyterian churches with this comprehensive and user-friendly application. From the ancient creeds to the Three Forms of Unity and the Westminster Standards, this searchable library provides easy access to the most universally used Christian creeds, confessions, and catechisms. With the ability to download additional documents and instantly search for specific words, phrases, and scripture references, this app offers a valuable resource for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of the historical Christian faith. Whether you are a student, pastor, or curious believer, this application will enrich your knowledge and appreciation of the depth and richness of Christian tradition.

Christian Creeds & Confessions is a searchable library of historical Christian creeds, confessions, and catechisms. The core collection comes from the Continental Reformed and English Presbyterian traditions, with the three ancient creeds included as a foundation everyone shares.

By default you get the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed; then the Three Forms of Unity — the Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dort; and the Westminster Standards, which include the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. Beyond those defaults, you can download more documents from inside the app, including some from non-Reformed traditions. Search works across the whole library and within individual documents. Scripture references are hyperlinked.

For Catholic readers, this is a Protestant resource, and a specifically Reformed one. The Westminster Standards and the Three Forms of Unity are the dogmatic statements of confessional Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed churches. They reject Catholic teaching on a number of points — sacraments, the papacy, justification, the saints, Mary — and they say so plainly. None of that should be a surprise; it is the point of those documents. The ancient creeds are common ground.

It fits Catholics who study Reformed theology — converts in either direction, seminarians, apologists, anyone in ecumenical conversations or working through a comparative theology class. Reading the Westminster Confession side by side with the Catechism of the Catholic Church is one of the cleaner ways to understand where Catholics and Reformed Christians actually differ. The app makes the texts easy to search and quote.

It is not a Catholic resource. The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the decrees of the Council of Trent are not in here. If you want Catholic confessional documents, you need a different app. It is also not devotional. It is reference material.

Free. By James H. Price, an independent developer in the Reformed tradition. On the App Store: Christian Creeds & Confessions. Useful if you study theology outside your own tradition; not where you go for daily prayer.