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| | CONGREGATIONALISM - LoveToKnow Article on CONGREGATIONALISM |
 | | The Congregationalism of the Apostolic Church was, to begin with, part of its heritage from Judaism. | | | Congregationalism, however, denotes a positive theory of the organization and powers of Christian churches, having as corollary independency of external control, whether civil or ecclesiastical. | | | The gulf between the laity and clergy went on widening during the 5th and 6th centuries; and the people, stripped of their old prerogatives (save in form here and there), passed into a spiritual pupillage which was one distinctive note of the medieval Church. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CO/CONGREGATIONALISM.htm
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| | Congregationalism |
| | Congregationalism is a type of church government in which each local congregation is self-governing. | | | For Mennonite practices in regard to congregationalism, see polity and autonomy of the congregation. | | | In its purest form, it insists on the full autonomy of the local congregation in matters of faith and doctrine as well as in all other matters of governance, including the selection of the pastor. |
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| | Congregationalism |
| | Congregationalism emerged in Scotland at the end of the eighteenth century as the result of a revival of religion and as a protest against the formalism and authority of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland. | | | As the concept of a national Congregational church is a contradiction in terms, Congregationalism being the belief that each individual church is a church in its own right, independent of other churches, about a third of the Congregational churches left the Scottish Congregational Church and became members of the Congregational Federation. | | | Two Congregational ministers, Gilbert Kirby and Harland Brine, became concerned at the apparent spiritual decline of English Congregationalism and this led to the formation of the Congregational Evangelical Revival Fellowship in 1947. |
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http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/ktcong/congregationalism4.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Congregationalism |
| | Such are the main principles of Congregationalism regarding the constitution of the church; in doctrine the Congregational teachers were, for the most part, strictly Calvinistic. | | | Finally it is stated that "churches gathered and walking according to the mind of Christ, judging other churches (though less pure) to be true churches, may receive unto occasional communion with them such members of these churches as are credibly testified to be godly and to live without offense". | | | Not only was a safe haven now opened to the fugitives from persecution, but the example of orderly communities based entirely on congregational principles, "without pope, prelate, presbytery, prince or parliament", was a complete refutation of the charge advanced by Anglicans and Presbyterians that Independency meant anarchy and chaos, civil and religious. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04239a.htm
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| | PRESBYTERIANISM - LoveToKnow Article on PRESBYTERIANISM |
| | In episcopacy the supreme authority is a diocesan bishop; in congregationalism it is the members of the congregation assembled in church meeting; in Presbyterianism it is a church council composed of representative presbyters. | | | The ecclesiastical unit in episcopacy is a diocese, comprising many churches and ruled by a prelate; in congregationalisni it is a single church, self-governed and entirely independent of all others; in Presbyterianism it is a presbytery or council composed of ministers and elders representing all the churches within a specified district. | | | In episcopacy the control of church affairs is almost entirely withdrawn from the people; in congregationalism it is almost entirely exercised by the people; in Presbyterianism it rests with a council composed of duly appointed office-bearers chosen by the people. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PR/PRESBYTERIANISM.htm
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| | Congregationalism |
| | The most unique aspect of Congregationalism is in its ideas on church government, that power rests with the individual congregation rather than with a church hierarchy. | | | But as time passed and Congregationalism became more middle-class the churches became more ornate and ceremonial. | | | In Britain the out break of Civil War lead to the formation of a group of English Congregationalists or Independents, who were influenced both by the Separatists and the New England way, and hostile to those Puritans who advocated Presbyterian style church government. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/christ/esp/congreg.html
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| | ColleagueOnline: About us |
| | Congregationalism B was Horton's attempt to convince the court and Congregationalists opposed to the union that the doctrine of the church proposed in the United Church of Christ was not a radical departure. | | | Perhaps, Horton's most original ecclesial contribution was his concept of Congregationalism B. Congregationalism A was the conviction that "church" is found only in the local congregation. | | | Congregational opponents to the union argued in church and court that the proposed United Church of Christ would result in a dramatically different understanding of "church" from that of historic Congregationalism. |
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http://www.colleagueonline.org/horton.htm
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| | Is Congregationalism a Democracy? - 9Marks |
| | Biblical congregationalism is also democratic in the sense that each member of the church has one vote to cast on certain issues that touch the corporate life of the church. | | | Biblical congregationalism also recognizes that the congregation is not the infallible guide to faith and practice (2Tim 4:3). | | | Yet there is a significant sense in which even a congregationally governed church is also a monarchy, Christ being the benevolent King and the members his willing and submissive subjects. |
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http://9marks.org/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID314526CHID598014CIID2008886,00.html
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| | Utah History Encyclopedia |
| | Congregationalism arose in sixteenth-century England as an element of the Puritan protest against the established Church of England (Anglican Church). | | | Congregationalism came to Ogden in 1876 when ten people met with Rev. A. | | | Although the congregation does not participate in Shared Ministry or in the Campus Christian Fellowship of these denominations on eight Utah college campuses, members have a friendly relationship with the UCC and lead in Church Women United and many community endeavors. |
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http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/c/CONGREGATIONAL.html
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| | Untitled |
| | Congregationalism has always affirmed that everyone who is a Christian is enabled by God as part of the Body of Christ to serve one another for the common good (1Corinthians 12). | | | If we add those churches which are “congregationally ordered” but which use other names we would be looking at a very significant percentage of the total number of Christian churches in the world. | | | Congregationalists do not feel that the word “church&; should be used to define a denomination or association of churches. |
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/bosborne/muchmore.htm
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| | Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ: German Congregationalism |
| | Participation in the Brotherhood required membership in a church, and Congregationalism's emphasis on the autonomy of the local church and the priesthood of all believers appealed to them. | | | Congregationalism was ideally suited to the frontier, and Missionary Superintendent Julius Reed, one of Iowa Congregationalism's "sacred seven," thought it could provide German immigrants with a well-anchored religious life. | | | Mid-nineteenth century American Congregationalism offered a style of church life that was seemingly designed for them—a fact made clear when one looks at their unique social and religious development. |
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http://www.ucc.org/aboutus/histories/chap5.htm
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| | Congregational Library Homepage |
| | Keepers of the Covenant: Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818. | | | Congregationalism: What It Is; Whence It Is; How It Works; Why It Is Better Than Any Other Form of Church Government. | | | “From Church to Denomination: American Congregationalism in the Nineteenth Century.” Church History 38 (1969): 67-87. |
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http://www.14beacon.org/amcongbiblio.htm
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| | How Are We Different |
| | Congregationalism assumes that each member of a church has a personal relationship with God that is a motivating force in his or her life. | | | In Congregationalism, we acknowledge that while we each have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, we also need the support of a loving community to grow to full maturity in Christ. | | | Congregationalism finds one of its strongest organizing principles in Jesus' words, "For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." (Matthew 18:20) |
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http://www.northshorecongl.org/howweare.htm
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| | Evangelical Methodist Churches |
| | These are distinguished primarily by the kinds of relationship that a particular local church has with other local churches in the same denomination and with the total denomination. | | | Independent-congregationalism is found among many independent, community churches in America, and is also that form of church government held in the Church of Christ denomination. | | | Congregational-connectionalism goes beyond both of these forms of congregationalism in stating the relationship of local churches to each other and to the denomination as a whole. |
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http://www.emchurch.org/congregation.htm
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| | Congregational History and Polity |
| | Congregationalism was the dominant religion of colonial New England and played a key role in the founding of our country, the growth of education, the abolition of slavery, and the civilizing of the frontier. | | | It will follow the ongoing tensions within Congregationalism between the autonomy of local churches and the need for accountability and cooperative action among the churches. | | | An understanding of congregational polity as a distinctively democratic form of church government. |
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http://www.piedmont.edu/church/his_pol.html
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| | Congregationalism |
| | Wherever men and women are won for Christ they desire to come together for worship, mutual help and united service, and every such group, once it begins to function in its principle is a Congregational church, though its members may know nothing of polity, and their theory of church government may never be made explicit. | | | In 1620, a groups of Separatists who had fled to Holland with their minister, John Robinson, sailed to New England in the Mayflower and are known as the Pilgrim Fathers. | | | This statement of faith is still seen today as a great declaration of the Reformed Faith. |
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| | Congregationalism in America traces its roots to the Pilgrims; people who believed that every person had the freedom to interpret God's Word on an individual basis and the obligation to do so responsibly. | | | In Congregationalism there is a wide diversity of thought and we respect all denominations in their search for the truth. | | | Each congregation is responsible for its form of worship, its property and its ministerial needs. |
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http://www.midcoast.com/~revdea/cpage4.html
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| | The Congregational Way |
| | No better definition of Congregationalism has ever been written than that of the noted scholar Dr. William E. Barton, which is to be found on page 15 of his definitive book, The Law of Congregational Usage. | | | The great central text of Congregationalism is Matthew 18:18-20, in which Christ says to the early Church: | | | At a time when the Congregational Christian Churches are being asked to speak up for their Way, it is well to ask: What is the basis for their faith and practice and how does it harmonize with the Bible-based usages which Congregational Christian Churches have followed across the centuries? |
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http://www.naccc.org/Cong_Way_Series/Biblical_Basis_of_Cong.htm
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| | Congregationalism: Viable & biblical, speakers say |
| | "Congregationalism may not be attractive, efficient, well-understood, well-practiced, easy, universally believed in or loved or impervious to distortion," Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., said in his address during the Feb. 5-7 gathering. | | | "Congregationalism is a terrible form of church government," the Texas seminary president said, "but it is light years ahead of whatever comes in second." | | | James Leo Garrett Jr., distinguished professor emeritus of theology at Southwestern Seminary, defined congregational polity as a form of church government in which "final human authority rests in the local or particular congregation when it gathers for decision-making. |
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http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/2216.article
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| | One "abhorrent" form of congregationalism, he said, views the pastor as the slave of the church. | | | A proponent of congregationalism, Patterson said he believes some churches adopt elder rule to fix unbiblical forms of congregationalism. | | | This is due in part to their general consensus on the biblical teaching about the number of church offices. |
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http://www.bpnews.net/storydownload.asp?ID=17638
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| | The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut |
| | The type, as we have seen, was Congregationalism, and the Congregational church became the established church in each of the four colonies. | | | His picture of the covenant relation of men in the church, under the immediate sovereignty of God, he extended to the state; and it led him as directly, and probably as unintentionally, to democracy in the one field as in the other. | | | They continued to be refused religious privileges because New England Congregationalism doubted the scriptural validity of letters of dismissal from churches where the discipline and church order varied from its own. |
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http://www.blackmask.com/books119c/7rlib.htm
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| | A Short Course in UCC History: 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. | | | 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. |
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| | The Story of the Congreational Union of Scotland |
| | Scottish Congregationalism in common with the rest of Christendom derives from the early Church - the foot of the cross and Pentecost. | | | The Glasites, the Old Scots Independents and the Berians, three indigenous forms of Congregationalism, came and went as movements concerned to synthesise the primitive New Testament Church. | | | In the 18th Century voices dissenting from the Kirk could be heard in Scotland. |
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http://www.urc.org.uk/union/cus_story.htm
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| | Creeds of Christendom Volume I (x.ii) |
| | Congregationalism has its name from the prominence it gives to the particular congregation as distinct from the general Church. | | | With these local creeds are connected 'covenants' or pledges of members to live conformably to the law of God and the faith and discipline of the Church. | | | The Congregational system implies, of course, the power of self-government and a living faith in Christ, without which it would be no government at all. |
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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds1.x.ii.html
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| | The Congregational Federation in Wales - Congregational History |
| | She embodied much of the ethos of Congregationalism, believing as it does in the equality of all God's people, regardless of gender, race, etc. The second President was the Reverend Elsie Chamberlain. | | | (Congregationalism was the first denomination to ordain women). | | | The unique quality of Congregationalism, which allows each local Church to develop its own mission in a way suited to its community, gives it a flexibility to face the challenges of the new Millennium, ever confident that as it seeks to do the will of God it will succeed. |
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http://www.haverfordwest.freeserve.co.uk/cfwales/history.html
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| | History Part 2 |
| | Tudor Jones writes in Congregationalism in England 1661-1962 that, at the beginning of the twentieth century Congregationalism, ‘was still a growing power in the land.’[iv] In 1875 Congregationalists had 2,980 churches, which increased to 3,176 in 1880 and to 3,433 in 1900. | | | At the dawn of the twentieth century, Congregationalism was alive politically and spiritually. | | | In a move away from simplicity in worship, churches were confident enough to build Gothic style churches, such as Penge Congregational Church or Mansfield College Chapel, and write liturgies for worship. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~congregational/history2.htm
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| | Doing Church Baptist Style: Congregationalism |
| | Congregationalism was widely practiced in the New Testament. | | | Baptists teach that the local congregation should have the authority to choose and ordain its own ministers, to decide the basis for membership, and to discipline members. | | | -- Are there practices in our church that violate the Baptist principle of congregationalism? |
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http://www.baptisthistory.org/pamphlets/congregationalism.htm
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| | congregationalism 2 of 3 |
| | For those involved in the controversy the points in question were believed to have a direct bearing on their attempts to win men and women for Christ. | | | Until 1843, many of those who desired a more evangelical form of preaching than that offered in the Established Church often found it in a Congregational church. | | | Scottish Congregationalism, which had commenced with a radical message some forty years before, failed with others in Scotland to appreciate Kirk's message and the nascent Evangelical Union benefitted tremendously from the events outlined above. |
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http://www.westendcongregationalchurch.org/bookp2.htm
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| | Protestant Reformed Theological Journal: April 1999 |
| | Yet already in the nineteenth and certainly by the beginning of the twentieth century New England Congregationalism was apostate. | | | Our prayer is that these contributions will serve to advance the cause of God's church and truth. | | | Stewart points out that New England was settled by godly Congregational pilgrims in the sixteenth century. |
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http://www.prca.org/prtj/apr99.html
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| | The information is divided into several areas dealing with the historical foundations of Congregationalism and the attempt on the part of the members of a Congregational Christian Church to practically live out a shared heritage. | | | Settling first at Plymouth, then later fusing with the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony who followed them, these founders of Congregationalism spread over New England, and through their democratic ideals laid the foundation for the free church, the free state, the free school, and the free social life of the country. | | | The Congregational Churches have been the pioneer Protestant Churches of the nation in the promotion of education, missions, evangelism, religious progress and moral reform. |
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http://www.lesandhelga.com/cong_ism.html
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| | 80.ch.03: Baptists and Religious Liberty in Early Connecticut |
| | Although little is known about the formation of the first Baptist church in Connecticut, it seems definite that it was in existence in Groton as early as the year ______. | | | The uniqueness of the Puritan settlements, combined with the uncertainties of wilderness life and congregational organization, led to an unusually close association between the spiritual and political authorities. | | | The story of Baptist efforts to attain the complete separation of church and state is only half told if the all-embracing influence of the dominant ministry of Puritan Congregationalism is overlooked. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1980/cthistory/80.ch.03.x.html
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| | Polity (from Congregationalism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Congregationalism is unique in its emphasis on the spiritual autonomy of each congregation. | | | The congregation, however, is not thought of as any casual gathering of Christians but as a settled body, with a well-defined constitution and offices, that has ordered itself according to the New Testament's understanding of the nature of the church. | | | More results on "Polity (from Congregationalism)" when you join. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-40150?tocId=40150
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| | The Nation, 10/04/1894 - Walker's Congregationalism in America |
| | They had much in common and much in difference, but that which was most central to either-was the idea that a Christian church was made up exclusively of persons who had experienced religion. | | | ...He also finds in him the prophecy of that democratic church government to which American Congregationalism finally attained, after wandering through all its early history in the semi-Presbyterian ways of Barrowe, who made church government wholly a matter of church officers... | | | The article presents information on the book "A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States," by Williston Walker. |
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http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v059i1527_11.htm
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| | The Congregationalists |
| | Thus the story of Victorian Congregationalism is one in which more and more decisions were not being taken independently at the local, congregational level, but rather by various wider Congregational bodies, most notably, the Congregational Union of England and Wales which was founded in 1831. | | | Although Congregationalists were important in the heady, turbulent days of the mid-seventeenth century -- claiming no less an adherent than the Protector, Oliver Cromwell himself -- the largest body at that time of what would become known in the Victorian period as "Old Dissent" was the Presbyterians. | | | Likewise Congregationalism was not as numerically significant in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/larsen5.html
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| | Bethany Congregational Church: Congregationalism |
| | They believed that Christ was the only head of the church, that one must read and interpret the Bible for oneself, and that each Congregation must govern itself. | | | They sought a pure form of worship which caused them to break away from the Church of England and settle in Boston and the North Shore. | | | Congregationalism in the New World began with the arrival of the Puritans from England in the early 1600s. |
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| | What is Congregationalism? |
| | The Congregational Way has never believed that the Bible is a closed book, but it has believed that there is always more truth and light yet to come from the Creator’s holy word. | | | Some “Puritans&; out to purify the Church of England of unbiblical, despotic and tyrannical practices petitioned for change within the system without much success except for receiving a Bible in their own language (The King James Version). | | | The roots of Congregationalism extend back to 16th Century England. |
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