title: Book of Discipline
text: # Book of Discipline
  
  A Book of Discipline (or in its shortened form Discipline) is a book detailing the beliefs, standards, doctrines, canon law, and polity of a particular Christian denomination. They are often re-written by the governing body of the church concerned due to changes in society and in the denomination itself. As many Christian denominations are global, a Book of Discipline may be multilingual.
  
  ## By Christian denomination
  
  ### Methodism
  
  Methodist connexions have been using a Book of Discipline since 1784, which contains canon law and doctrine:
  
  * The Discipline of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection
  * The Discipline of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church
  * Book of Discipline of the Free Methodist Church
  * Book of Discipline for the United Methodist Church
  * Discipline of the Immanuel Missionary Church
  * The Discipline of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection
  
  ### Presbyterianism
  
  * Book of Discipline of the Church of Scotland and Book of Common Order of the Church of Scotland
  
  ### Quakerism
  
  Within Quaker Christianity, the text may be known as a Book of Discipline or a Manual of Faith and Practice:
  
  * Book of Discipline of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) - each Yearly Meeting (national organisation of Quakers) publishes its own Book of Discipline, which may be titled the Book of Discipline or Faith and Practice or some other name.
  