Author: Albert Elijah Dunning
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Author: Henry Martyn DEXTER
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Albert Barnes Cristy
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Category : Churches, Congregational
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Robert William Dale
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 972

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Author: Henry Martyn Dexter
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Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 1710

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Author: Henry Dexter
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368828576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author: Williston Walker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597521531
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 613

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Congregationalism has always accorded large liberty to local churches in their interpretation of doctrine and polity. Its creeds are not exclusively binding, and its platforms have always been held to be open to revision. They have been witness to the faith and practice of the churches rather than tests for subscription. But by reason of this liberty a colletion of Congregational creeds and platforms illustrates the history of the body whose expressions they are better than if those symbols were less readily amended. The points wherin they agree may therefore confidently be believed to set forth that which is abiding in the faith and practice of the churches, while the features of change and the traces of discussion of more temporary importance which these creeds and platforms exhibit illustrate as clearly that which is mutable in our ecclesiastical life. It is because the writer deems such a collection of prime value in illuminating the history of Congregationalism that this compilation has been made. Ð from the Preface

Author: Margaret Bendroth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962401X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.

Author: Simeon Eben Baldwin
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Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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