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It continues to be regularly invoked in both the Liturgy and the Governance of the UCA, and has been updated on several occasions, most recently in 1992. In Services of Ordination , ordinands promise to ''adhere'' to the Basis of Union. As the document which was approved by a vote of the members of the three uniting churches prior to union, the Basis of Union performs the function of a Constitution for the UCA. The union is notable in that the Congregational and Presbyterian churches came from a strong theological tradition of Calvinism , while the Methodist tradition was Arminian . The union of these churches therefore required a decision on the part of both sides that the issues underlying this difference were not vital to the life of the church. Expressing this in a form acceptable to the members of all three uniting denominations was one of the many challenges faced by the writers of the Basis of Union. EXTERNAL LINKS
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