church has historically argued you should believe) and parts where we are more descriptive (explaining the diversity we find in the church without giving preference to one or the other). In the descriptive sections, some of you will just want to know the right answer, but we purposefully do not provide one. Our goal is to give you a starting point for further study and conversation. We follow the model of an early Protestant theologian Rupertus Meldenius: “In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty,