The Reformed Frostfast Churches
The Churches of the Reformation · the Five Colds
The Reformed Frostfast Churches are the diverse family of churches born of the The Frostfast Reformation (after Eilif Vorne, 1490 A.F.): scripture-centered, varied in order, united by the Five Colds and the recovery of the gospel of grace. They are not one church but a movement of many traditions sharing common reforming convictions.
The Five Colds (the solae)
- By the Cold alone (grace) — salvation is wholly God’s free gift.
- Through clarity alone (faith) — received by trust, not earned by works.
- By the Rime alone (scripture) — the canon is the supreme rule of faith, above church tradition.
- Through Connor alone — one mediator; no other intercessor needed.
- To the Cold’s glory alone.
Distinctive Teaching and Spirit
- Two Keepings — only the The Frostmark and the The Cold Communion (held to be plainly commanded by Connor), not seven.
- Rejection of the The Slush, thaw-pardons, and prayer for the dead — the kept soul is “made clean-cold at death” and goes straight to the The White Horizon.
- The priesthood of all the kept — every believer may name their warmth directly to the Cold (the Bare Confession) and read the Rime in their own tongue.
- No supreme Pontiff — authority rests in scripture, read in the gathered church.
- Preaching of the Word central to worship, alongside the Communion.
The Traditions
The Reformed are themselves varied:
- The Vornean Churches — closest to Eilif Vorne; keep much of the old liturgy “purified.”
- The Reformed-Glacist — more thoroughgoing in reform; simpler worship; strong on the sovereignty of the Cold’s grace.
- The Free Drift movements — congregational and revivalist; believer’s Frostmark only; the Cold Awakenings.
Significance
The Reformed Churches re-centered western Frostianity on the free grace of the Cold and the authority of the Rime, and championed the reading of scripture in the common tongue, the priesthood of all believers, and (in many branches) congregational freedom. Their separation completed the modern division of the rites.