CONGREGATIONALISM
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Definitions of CONGREGATIONALISM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.
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A form of church government in which each congregation governs itself.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A form of church government in which each congregation is independent in the management of its own affairs: also called Independency.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The church polity that makes the authority of the local congregation supreme within its own domain, or the religious denomination founded on that polity.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. A system of church government which vests ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church; Independency.
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