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| | HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH* |
 | | Henry Cotherill (Bishop of Edinburgh): The Genesis of the Church. | | | The temporal organization of the empirical church is to be a means (and not a hindrance, as it often is) for the actualization of the ideal republic of God when all Christians shall be prophets, priests, and kings, and fill all time and all space with his praise. | | | The ministers of the gospel are, in an eminent sense, servants of God, and, as such, servants of the churches in the noble spirit of self-denying love according to the example of Christ, for the eternal salvation of the souls intrusted to their charge. |
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http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/1_ch10.htm
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| | A Short Course in UCC History: Congregationalism |
| | Churches were to preserve communion with one another in mutual covenant with Christ. | | | 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. | | | The Platform defined the "church catholick" as the body of all who are elected (chosen) by God's grace and called to salvation. |
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http://www.ucc.org/aboutus/shortcourse/congo.htm
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| | Just a Bump in the Beltway: Idolatry v. Religion |
| | Dean's church is a Congregationalist (and UCC) church. | | | It is a type of church administration practiced by a number of Christian denominations, Unitarian Universalism, all of the Jewish denominations, and most Islamic, Buddhist and Hindu mosques and temples. | | | The Congregationalist Church is a Christian denomination that preaches a personal relationship... |
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http://www.node707.com/archives/000252.html
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| | DFC History |
| | The origins of the Danby Federated Church can be traced back to 1807 when the articles of Faith and Covenant were adopted by the Congregational Church of Christ in Spencer. | | | However, in1936, the Congregationalist church withdrew from the larger unit. | | | The erection of the church building began in 1817 and was completed in 1820. |
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http://people2.clarityconnect.com/webpages4/danbyfed/DFC_history.html
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| | Welsh Congregationalist Church, Sharon |
| | The church edifice on Pennsylvania Avenue was erected in 1856. | | | The members of the Welsh churches are employese of the iron-works. | | | A church was erected, in Penn avenue, about 1856. |
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/PA/PL/Church/Sharon/welshcong.htm
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| | The early Methodist church was less concerned with the development of new doctrinal statements, or the building of new churches, than it was with encouraging people to develop their personal faith, and have a constructive influence on the lives of others. | | | The open bible was used on The United Church crest to symbolize the Congregationalist church in recognition of the Congregationalist emphasis on the importance of individuals to choose their own beliefs based on biblical teachings rather than the adherence to specific doctrines. | | | The Methodist influence on the formation of the United church is seen less in the development of the doctrine of the United Church than in the polity and administrative structure of the church, such as in the power of the Conference to ordain clergy. |
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http://www.storm.ca/~bcuc/Sermons/srmmay28.htm
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| | Non-belief in the United States: An Influential Minority Tradition |
| | Even today, in my own church, abortion is a contentious topic, and debates with my father show clearly the extent to which religious faith, or lack of faith, affects one's personal politics. | | | In addition, his education in the sciences was continuing, and the creation story that the church continued to endorse made no more sense to him than any of the other seemingly random rules and beliefs of the church. | | | Before her teen years, her family converted from a Congregationalist church to a conservative Wesleyan church. |
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http://are.as.wvu.edu/murphy.htm
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| | Dad 3 New England |
| | Perhaps a little before that, the church was part of a Unitarian Movement within the Congregationalist Church, and became Unitarian along with about 125 others, including 80% of the oldest 25 New England churches. | | | The Congregational Church eventually couldn't tolerate these Harvard-grad ministers and their radical beliefs, and in the early 1800's the Unitarian movement within the Congregationalist denomination allowed the churches to choose. | | | Unlike the top-down hierarchy of the Church of England, Congregationalists believed in the congregation's autonomy. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~bob.davis3/Dadne3.htm
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| | The Baptist Story 2 |
| | Many Southern Baptist Churches have women as ordained pastors, although the Bible clearly teaches that women are not allowed by Scripture to be Pastors of Churches. | | | In New Jersey, the Congregational Church was the official church of that colony, and anyone who was not a member of said church could not be elected of public office, or serve in any military capacity of leadership, nor even be allowed to vote in public elections. | | | Mayer notes n p272 "At the beginning of the 1800's the majority of Baptists in the South held that all church practices not specifically commanded in the New Testament are contrary to the Scriptures. |
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http://www.gospelcenterchurch.org/baptiststorytwo.html
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| | Welsh Congregationalist Church |
| | The church services are held at present in the school-house, as no regular church building has yet been built, but it is the intention to commence the erection of a suitable chapel in the near future, The congregation has a membership of thirty three. | | | The congregation worshiped in the village schoolhouse and elsewhere until the erection of their church. | | | The Welsh residents of Wheatland organized a Congregational church in August, 1872. |
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/PA/PL/Church/Wheatland/Welsh.htm
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| | Congregationalist Church, Greenville |
| | The Congregational Church was organized in 1840, and disbanded in the early 1860s | | | No report is recorded, but notice is made of regular church meetings having been held in the public school-house, in the Presbyterian and in the Methodist Episcopal Churches. | | | After due deliberation, on account of their former clerk having left this section of country, and not being able to find any records of the church, the members were reorganized.” So reads the old minute book of a congregation that was once vigorous with active Christian endeavor. |
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/PA/PL/Church/Greenville/congreg.htm
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| | DGW |
| | In October of 1721 a meetinghouse for The First Congregationalist Church of Providence (later to be The First Unitarian Church) was only a gleam in the eyes of the Massachusetts Congregationalist clergy. | | | In 1832 the church leadership requested the resignation of Reverend Henry Edes, who had brought Unitarianism to the First Congregational Church of Providence. | | | The church histories say that the ministries of Hitchock and Hall ended with their deaths. |
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http://members.aol.com/nanvan2/dgw.htm
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| | The Congregational Federation in Wales - Congregationalist Beliefs |
| | The Church Meeting at which each member has the right to speak and vote is Sovereign in the affairs of the Church. | | | Each Church member has as much right to express his or her understanding of the Divine will as does his neighbour. | | | Taking their lead from the Acts of the Apostles, Congregationalists believe that everyone who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour is able to speak with Jesus through prayer. |
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http://www.haverfordwest.freeserve.co.uk/cfwales/beliefs.html
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| | LIBERTARIAN HERITAGE PURITAN CONGREGATIONALIST CHURCH |
| | He must be certain that the church's teaching is founded upon the Word of God. | | | The Early Church believed (as the Scriptures teach) in the Second Coming of Christ, when He will establish His Kingdom on Earth, with His throne in Jerusalem, from where He will rule in peace (with His saints) for a thousand years. | | | Very early in church history, Origen taught and Augustine popularized a system which said that these teachings were spiritually rather than literally fulfilled, they therefore became disregarded. |
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http://www.geocities.com/c2777/lhc/lhc1.html
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| | Mayflower Church |
| | Mayflower Community Congregational Church is a creative and energetic congregation affiliated with the United Church of Christ. | | | Open and Affirming (ONA) is the designation for congregations, campus ministries, and other bodies in the United Church of Christ which make public statements of welcome into their full life and ministry to persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities. | | | We gather at Mayflower to grow spiritually; sustain our Christian traditions; enact Christ's call for justice, love and understanding; welcome, respect, and care for people; and affirm the sacredness of God's creation. |
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http://www.mayflowermpls.org
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| | Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (W) |
| | His brother, Samuel, was on the opposite side of the Congregationalist church split. | | | He became a priest of the Church of England in 1728. | | | Became pastor of the Tabernacle Church of Salem, MA. |
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http://www.jmisc.net/BIOG-W.htm
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| | The Mystery Worshipper: St Raphael's, Berkeley |
| | The building: This congregation meets in Grace North Church, a Congregationalist church which uses the English 1662 liturgy. | | | He didn't have the most carrying voice in the world and, being congregational, the church hadn't really been designed with the idea of an east-facing mass being said. | | | Normally saying that everyone in the church introduced themselves would be a strong compliment. |
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http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Mystery/2005/951.html
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| | Lay religious beliefs: the spiritual testimonies of early eighteenth-century Presbyterian communicants |
| | A number of studies of the Church of England have also challenged the prevailing orthodoxy[56]. | | | Most public testimonies of individual spiritual experience were made to provide the evidence of saving grace that the gathered churches demanded of prospective members before their admission to the sacraments. | | | The level of research has reached a point where it has moved beyond the use of clerical sources alone, and the study of theology or church organisation, to examine religious beliefs and practices of the laity themselves. |
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http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/teaching/papers/wykes1.html
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| | The religion of William Holden, actor |
| | The child actor was so impressed by Holden that as an adult he named one of his sons "Holden." As an adult Rick Schroder was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | | | Seeking spiritual strength for her challenge, she prayed nightly in Hutchinson's Catholic church. | | | She dressed them in their best short-pants suits and sent them off to Sunday School at the Congregational church. |
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http://www.adherents.com/people/ph/William_Holden.html
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| | The religion of Clint Eastwood, actor and director |
| | Although many of Clint Eastwood's most recent ancestors were Congregationalists, and his great grandmother was a devout Christian Scientist, the preference of his family for general Protestantism without loyalty to any specific denomination was in evidence when Eastwood's parents were married in an "Interdenominational" church. | | | He regularly attended church services on Sundays with his mother and siblings at whatever Protestant church was nearby. | | | So on December 19, 1953, they were married in a respectable church wedding, after which they honeymooned in Carmel for a few days. |
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http://www.adherents.com/people/pe/Clint_Eastwood.html
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| | Women's History Trail : Augusta Maine |
| | 's oldest continuous church, tracing its beginnings to 1786 when the first ministers interviewed by the town preached at the meeting house. | | | South Parish Congregationalist Church is across the way, located at 9 Church Street, just off | | | The congregation has occupied three buildings over its history: the original meeting house was in |
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http://dll.umaine.edu:16080/historytrail/site33.html
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| | HOW THOMAS JEFFERSON'S "WALL OF SEPARATION" REDEFINED CHURCH-STATE LAW AND POLICY by Daniel L. Dreisbach |
| | First, Jefferson’s trope emphasizes separation between Church and State—unlike the First Amendment, which speaks in terms of the nonestablishment and free exercise of religion. | | | I address these questions in my new book, Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (2002). | | | In the Danbury letter, Jefferson deftly transformed the political principle into the constitutional principle of separation between Church and State by equating the language of separation with the text of the First Amendment. |
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http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/May2003/0503Dreisbach.html
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| | SAPO - Portugal Online! |
| | African Independent Churches are the fastest growing Christian groups in Africa today. | | | Mundial : Society : Religion_and_Spirituality : Christianity : Denominations : Congregationalist Church | | | This page aims to provide a contact point for those researching their history, theology, mission methods and social significance. |
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http://mundial.sapo.pt/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Congregationalist_Church
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| | Congregationalist Church, WHi-27570 |
| | View towards the northwest across West Washington Avenue of the Congregationalist Church. | | | Main Hall (now Bascom Hall) of the University of Wisconsin can be seen just left of center in the background, along with Lake Mendota on the right. |
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http://wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=27570&...+buildings
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| | Congregationalist Church |
| | American Denominations > Presbyterian-Reformed Family > Congregationalist Church | | | Data were taken from the National Council of Churches’ Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. |
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http://www.thearda.com/test2/YEarbook/D924.html
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| | Jonathan Edwards |
| | Ultimately he was dismissed from his post as the pastorate of the White Haven Congregationalist Church, whereupon he became the pastor of small, remote Congregationalist Church at North Colebrook, Connecticut. | | | Edwards was offered the presidency of Union College on May 1 1799, after two other candidates had declined the offer. | | | Edwards remained in the Princeton area, graduating from Princeton University in 1765. |
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http://www.union.edu/About/History/Presidents/edwards.php
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| | Antoinette Blackwell Home -- NRHP Travel Itinerary |
| | Blackwell was especially caught up in the fervor of the era, becoming a member and sometime speaker at the local Congregationalist church by age nine. | | | Blackwell completed the theological course at Oberlin College in 1850-though her name would not appear on the graduation role until 1908-and was an itinerant preacher and lecturer until she received a permanent appointment as pastor of the Congregational church in South Butler, New York. | | | Blackwell's father, Joseph Brown, immersed his family in the Protestant revivals that swept across central New York during the early 19th century. |
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ny4.htm
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| | Colleges and Universities |
| | Located in Decatur, Columbia is an institution of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and offers five graduate degree programs. | | | Associated with the Congregationalist Church, Piedmont is located in Demorest and offers a liberal arts education. | | | Located in Macon, Wesleyan is the oldest college for women in the country; the school is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. |
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http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/GeorgiaReferenceShelf/HigherEducation.html
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| | Congregational Federation |
| | “Bringing together independent free churches for mutual support | | | As well as full contact details for all our member churches, this web site provides news, training information and various other resources for local churches. | | | Please click on one of the topics above for further information. |
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http://www.congregational.org.uk
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| | Church |
| | All of the congregations held fund raisers to build a manse in Marble Springs. | | | In 1878, Pastor Horner established three parish churches throughout the Crystal River Valley. |
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http://www.eastgate.com/MS/Church_992.html
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| | Grace Life Home |
| | Grace Life Baltimore is a multi-cultural church serving downtown Baltimore and the surrounding neighborhoods. | | | Stepping Stone is a college ministry serving the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus and surrounding communities. |
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http://www.gracelifechurch.com
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