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A Short Course in UCC History: Congregationalism The Westminster Confession of 1646, the design for Presbyterian church government and an expression of Reformed faith and doctrine, was revised for church polity and discipline at the Cambridge Synod of 1648. In 1750, Edwards was dismissed from the Northampton church. Christian theology induced ferment and continued to challenge the essentially closed social patterns and purposes of the Puritans. www.ucc.org /aboutus/shortcourse/congo.htm

Walker, Services of the Mathers in New England Religious Development The prominence attained by Richard Mather as an expounder of the New England church-way was increased speedily after the issue of the work at which we have glanced by the publication of several pamphlets of a controversial nature, all designed to set forth more clearly the polity which he had at heart. The first of these was an exposition of that fundamental basis of the Congregational structure, the church-covenant,—the agreement into which a believer enters with his God and with his fellow-disciples, and which according to Congregational thinking is the essential bond of union which transforms a company of Christians into a church. In doctrine and polity alike Increase Mather was a conservative. www.dinsdoc.com /walker-1.htm   (7278 words)

Walker, Services of the Mathers in New England Religious Development The prominence attained by Richard Mather as an expounder of the New England church-way was increased speedily after the issue of the work at which we have glanced by the publication of several pamphlets of a controversial nature, all designed to set forth more clearly the polity which he had at heart. In doctrine and polity alike Increase Mather was a conservative. The first of these was an exposition of that fundamental basis of the Congregational structure, the church-covenant,—the agreement into which a believer enters with his God and with his fellow-disciples, and which according to Congregational thinking is the essential bond of union which transforms a company of Christians into a church. www.dinsdoc.com /walker-1.htm   (7278 words)

A huge list of online Christian religious texts: Part4 Small Dioceses and State Conventions: Some Remarks on the Polity of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States by James V. Campbell Proceedings of the General Convention of Congregational Ministers and Delegates in the United States (1852) by Congregational Churches in the United States Proceedings of a Council of Congregational Churches, Relative to the Privileges of Members of the Church of the Puritans, New York (1859) by Congregational Churches in the United States www.hinduwebsite.com /general/etextschristian4.htm   (7278 words)

Unitarian Universalist Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Because of this relationship between the congregations and the association, Unitarian Universalist congregations have a congregational polity of governance. Other denominations with congregational polity include most Baptists, the Church of Christ, the Disciples of Christ, and the United Church of Christ. Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious denomination of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unitarian_Universalist_Association   (951 words)

Patti Lawrence A consultant and retreat leader for Unitarian Universalist congregations, Lawrence teaches Starr King courses on congregational growth and change dynamics, congregational polity, systems theory and leadership. As Professor of Congregational Studies, she also directs the school’s parish internship program, arranging and guiding internship placements for students. Her current research interests include large church dynamics and growth, as well as theological education for the laity. www.sksm.edu /faculty/patti_lawrence.php   (951 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529). The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 at Pekin, New York, as a protest against the alleged abandonment of the ideals of ancient Methodism by the Methodist Episcopal Church. It controls the affairs of every individual church, and holds its deliberations under the direction of the "district superintendent" or his representative; (2) the "Annual Conference", at which several "districts" are represented by their itinerant preachers under the presidency of the bishop. www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm   (951 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529). The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 at Pekin, New York, as a protest against the alleged abandonment of the ideals of ancient Methodism by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Wesleyan Methodist Association was organized in 1836 by Dr. Samuel Warren, whose opposition to the foundation of a theological seminary resulted in his secession from the parent body. www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm   (951 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529). The dissemination of religious literature is obtained by the foundation of "Book Concerns" (located at New York and Cincinnati for the Methodist Episcopal Church; at Nashville, Tennessee, for the Methodist Episcopal Church South) and a periodical press, for the publications of which the titles of "Advocates" is particularly popular. The Wesleyan Methodist Association was organized in 1836 by Dr. Samuel Warren, whose opposition to the foundation of a theological seminary resulted in his secession from the parent body. www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm   (951 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529). The dissemination of religious literature is obtained by the foundation of "Book Concerns" (located at New York and Cincinnati for the Methodist Episcopal Church; at Nashville, Tennessee, for the Methodist Episcopal Church South) and a periodical press, for the publications of which the titles of "Advocates" is particularly popular. The Wesleyan Methodist Association was organized in 1836 by Dr. Samuel Warren, whose opposition to the foundation of a theological seminary resulted in his secession from the parent body. www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm   (951 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529). The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 at Pekin, New York, as a protest against the alleged abandonment of the ideals of ancient Methodism by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Wesleyan Methodist Association was organized in 1836 by Dr. Samuel Warren, whose opposition to the foundation of a theological seminary resulted in his secession from the parent body. www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm   (951 words)

Solomon Stoddard Stoddard was unusual for a New England Puritan in that he allowed an open communion and called for broader church oversight than was the Congregational standard form of church polity. Stoddard was a Puritan minister at a Congregationalist Church in Northampton, Massachusetts for 57 years (1672-1729). Congregational opponents such as Cotton Mather often referred to him as "Pope" Stoddard, placing him in the locally detested camp of the Roman Catholic Church. www.termsdefined.net /so/solomon-stoddard.html   (226 words)

Creeds of Christendom Volume I (x.ii) The effect of the Congregational polity upon creeds is to weaken the authority of general creeds and to strengthen the authority of particular creeds. In the theory of creeds and covenants, as on the whole subject of Church polity, the Regular or Calvinistic Baptists entirely agree with the Congregationalists. Hence there are a great many creeds among American Congregationalists which have purely local authority; but they must be in essential harmony with the prevailing faith of the body, or the congregations professing them forfeit the privileges of fellowship. www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/creeds1.x.ii.html   (226 words)

History Channel Search Results Congregationalism is the polity of many religious bodies besides those that have used the term congregational in their names, including the Baptists, the Unitarians, and churches of the Campbellite tradition such as the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In a narrower sense, congregationalism is the polity of one wing of English Puritanism, and especially of those Puritans who migrated to New England in the 17th century. The tendency of congregationalism to a narrow parochialism was in some measure counterbalanced by its emphasis on the communion of the churches. www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..co198800.a   (226 words)

A Short Course in UCC History: Congregationalism His "True Constitution of a Particular Visible Church," describing Congregational life and polity (organization and government), was read widely in England and influenced John Owen, chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, to embrace Congregationalism. The new shape would enable Congregationalism as a denomination in the centuries to come, to maintain its integrity in the face of the American Revolution, religious revivals, the scandal of slavery, the challenge of cultural pluralism, and a call to mission that would carry the faith westward and world-wide. Jonathan Edwards, foremost of American philosophers, was responsible for a far broader synthesis of science, philosophy, and religion in Congregational and Presbyterian theology and practice than had been present in "Old Light" Puritanism. www.ucc.org /aboutus/shortcourse/congo.htm   (226 words)

UUA Commission on Appraisal The text of the previous report, entitled Interdependence and examining the issue of congregational polity, is available through the UUA website [ http://www.uua.org/polity/contents.htm ]. This report is published by the UUA, which is currently sending one copy to each UUA congregation. Three new members of the Commission were elected and sworn in at the 2001 General Assembly of the UUA, held in Cleveland, Ohio in June. home.earthlink.net /~uujim/coa.htm   (226 words)

New Catholic Dictionary: Baptists The polity of the Baptist Church is congregational, each church being independent of control regarding discipline and worship, appointment of pastor, and election of deacons and other officers. In general the doctrines and polity of the English Baptists are in accord with those of the Mennonites and the more moderate and evangelical groups of Anabaptists. In 1911 the Baptists joined the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and in 1925 were organized into fourteen national groups. www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd01010.htm   (226 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529). Coke arrived in New York on 3 November, 1784, and that same year what has become known as the Christmas conference was convened at Baltimore. The Wesleyan Methodist Association was organized in 1836 by Dr. Samuel Warren, whose opposition to the foundation of a theological seminary resulted in his secession from the parent body. www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm   (5467 words)

American Baptists: Bureaucratic and Democratic In sparsely settled regions where only a handful of Baptist churches are present, the mission should be ecumenically extended to include other denominations that share congregational practice and polity; e.g., the United Church of Christ, the Brethren, the Disciples, the Quakers. Spiritual heirs of the Anabaptists -- the religious revolutionaries of 16th century Europe -- the Baptists we know today emerged from the Congregational and Presbyterian churches in the first decade of the 17th century. At present the American Baptists are the victims of the invisible gulf that exists between their own national and state bureaucracies and the individual congregations. www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1796   (4097 words)

Mundinger Quotations on Battle for Voter Supremacy Any democratic political theories which the founders of the Missouri Synod might have entertained, they did not get from America, but from the same source from which they derived their theory and church polity, viz., from the writings of Martin Luther. The wording [for congregational supremacy] was fixed in the midst of a [Trinity] congregation that was intensely jealous of its congregational rights [in St. Louis, on May 18th, 1846, a month before the Fort Wayne Conference]. For years Stephan had adroitly manipulated his doctrine so that very many of colonists were of the firm conviction that Stephan was their chief means of grace (Hauptgnadenmittel) [head grace mediator] and that outside, and apart from, him there was no hope. www.reclaimingwalther.org /articles/jmc00084.htm   (1615 words)

Baptist2Baptist - Information and Inspiration on Issues of Importance to Baptists It expressed Calvinistic doctrine and congregational polity and would be used ''as a model" by Particular Baptist churches in London when they framed their 1644 Confession. [111] Henry Barrow (1550?-1593) in Four Causes of Separation (1587) identified the false manner of worshiping the true God, the ungodly members retained in churches, the anti-Christian ministry imposed on the churches, and the anti-Christian polity of churches. Albert Henry Newman, a Baptist historian writing more than a century ago, could find no common ground between modern Baptists and such early movements as Montanism, Novatianism, and Donatism or such later movements as the Paulicians and the Cathari. www.baptist2baptist.net /Issues/BaptistPolity/rootofbaptistbeliefs.asp   (6643 words)

Faith: Theology Page: Cambridge Platform: Peter Gomes Sermon Few better than you know the volatility of the congregational principle in which the local, if it is not careful, substitutes for itself the fellowship of the gospel, and in homage to a polity traduces the mutual bond of peace which is the model of the primitive church. While the backward glance compels and inspires and at times confuses, the "positive part of church reformation," in Higginson's words, is always a work of the future, the forward look; and it is to that future, to that unfinished and perhaps unfinishable work, to which you will now return. Francis J. Bremer explores the Platform's roots in the social and spiritual values of New England's Puritan community. www.ucc.org /theology/gomes.htm   (6643 words)

Dr.  Gene Scott , Dr. Scott was elected pastor of Faith Center, a 45-year old church of congregational polity in Glendale, California. Scott has been honored by many civic and community organizations for his personal efforts on their behalf; most recently, the City of Pasadena surprised him with a Birthday Tribute at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center where civic leaders from throughout the State of California gathered to pay tribute to his generosity and his unflagging support. Scott has written and published some 20 books, has logged over 50,000 hours of television and radio teaching played world-wide daily, and is immersed in a multitude of activities. www.drgenescott.com /docsbio.htm   (779 words)

baptist church fork history rolling A member of an evangelical Protestant church of congregational polity, following the reformed tradition in worship, and believing in individual freedom, in the separation of Joesph Thomas Taylor was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. The storm began its work of destruction beyond the Rolling Fork, not far from the residence of Mrs... www.bcpets.com /church/baptist-church-fork-history-rolling.php   (638 words)

Unitarian Universalist Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Because of this relationship between the congregations and the association, Unitarian Universalist congregations have a congregational polity of governance. Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious denomination of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America. Canadian congregations are all members of both the UUA and the Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unitarian_Universalist_Association   (924 words)

Plymouth Brethren The polity of the Plymouth Brethren is congregational, following New Testament models. The name Plymouth Brethren identifies several small Christian sects of common origin - found in Britain, Europe, and the United States - that are conservative in theology and millenarian in outlook. D J Beattie, Brethren: The Story of a Great Recovery Movement (1942); F R Coad, A History of the Brethren Movement (1968); H A Ironside, A Historical Sketch of the Brethren Movement (1985); H H Rowdon, The Origins of the Brethren: 1825 - 1850 (1967). www.mb-soft.com /believe/txc/plymbret.htm   (230 words)

A Christian Handbook of Topics & Issues - by J. Nation CHURCH GOVERNMENT: In polity, the Brethren combine both the congregational and the Presbyterianism practices with final authority vested in an Annual Conference, or delegates. Followers conclude that Jesus Christ himself is the sole ruler of the church and that he exercises that rule through four kinds of officers: preachers (to exhort, admonish, and encourage), teachers (to instruct), deacons (to aid the poor), and lay elders (to guide and discipline). It is the form of church government in which elders, both lay people and pastors, govern. www.cedarnet.org /jnation/book/bk18-05.html   (309 words)

Guardian Unlimited dummy Every biography of Michael Faraday says that he was a Sandemanian, which I gather is some sort of Christian sect. What do or did Sandemanians believe and who was Mr Sandeman? Glas rejected the Presbyterian establishment in Scotland in favour of a congregational polity, believing he was returning to the pattern of primitive Christianity. GLASITES or Sandemanians were called after John Glas (1695-1713) and his son-in-law Robert Sandeman (1718-71). They are, I think, an off-shoot of the Cockburn sect which follows similar practices, though without the hat and cape. www.guardian.co.uk /notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2736,00.html   (708 words)

baptist church first jacksonville A member of an evangelical Protestant church of congregational polity, following the reformed tradition in worship, and believing in individual freedom, in the separation of The First Baptist Church of Jacksonville is a church in Jacksonville, Florida. Our church was known as Jacksonville Baptist Church beginning in 1872... www.bcpets.com /church/baptist-church-first-jacksonville.php   (557 words)

acm_2-m.txt Thomas Hooker, one of the most important of the Puritan theorists, argued that a man who desired to live a good life in a Christian polity must "willingly binde and ingage himself to each member of that society. The congregational churches, election of ministers and magistrates, creation of state and town governments, and organization of the militia were all arranged contractually. Thomas Prince (1687-1758) followed on 27 November 1746 with a condemnation of cowards and a promise of sainthood to true patriot militiamen, delivered at the South Church in Boston. www.constitution.org /jw/acm_2-m.txt   (17198 words)

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