Crossword clues for congregationalism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congregationalism \Con`gre*ga"tion*al*ism\, n.
That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.
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The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.
Note: In this sense (which is its usual signification) Congregationalism is the system of faith and practice common to a large body of evangelical Trinitarian churches, which recognize the local brotherhood of each church as independent of all dictation in ecclesiastical matters, but are united in fellowship and joint action, as in councils for mutual advice, and in consociations, conferences, missionary organizations, etc., and to whose membership the designation ``Congregationalists'' is generally restricted; but Unitarian and other churches are Congregational in their polity.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several forms of church organization in which each congregation is responsible for its own government
Wikipedia
Congregationalism may refer to:
- Congregationalist polity, a form of church governance based on the local congregation
- The Congregational churches, a family of denominations known for a congregationalist form of governance
Usage examples of "congregationalism".
Is it quite sure that New England Congregationalism would have been in all respects worse off if Channing and his friends had continued to be recognized as the Liberal wing of its clergy?
None of them belonged to Congregational churches, and so, when Congregationalism came to the South after the war, it was entirely new to the former slaves and to those who had been their masters.
It will, therefore, be some time before Congregationalism will grow rapidly in the South.
Two alternatives, were theoretically possible, Congregationalism or state churches.
Calamy was an active member in the Westminster assembly of divines, and, refusing to advance to Congregationalism, found in Presbyterianism the middle course which best suited his views of theology and church government.
At the rate this latter was taking place it seems probable that had he lived to write another novel on a theme similar to this, his hero would have been compelled to abandon his belief in Presbyterianism, Congregationalism, Methodism, or some other ism before he would be found worthy of being joined in the marriage relation to his Episcopalian bride.
So the two young missionaries, each so desperately in love but lacking capacity to speak of it to the other, because they judged that Congregationalism would not approve, looked at each other in the noonday sunlight, and then looked away.