Resultado de búsqueda
Unitarian and Universalist congregations all over the globe have mostly adopted some variation of congregational polity as their system of ecclesiastical organization. This method of governance reflects a faith in human abilities to not only “think for ourselves in matters of religion but to act for ourselves also,” so that no one ...
An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops. The word "bishop" here is derived via the British Latin and Vulgar Latin term *ebiscopus / *biscopus, from the Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος epískopos meaning "overseer".
Congregational polity, or congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church (congregation) is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous". Its first articulation in writing is the Cambridge Platform of 1648 in New England.
Related to Congregationalist polity: Congregationalist churches Congregationalism The underlying principle is that each local congregation has as its head Jesus alone and that the relations of the various congregations are those of fellow members in one common family of God.
11 de jun. de 2018 · Congregationalism in Quebec and Ontario grew out of two separate movements. In the years after the American Revolution, settlers from New England began to move northward across the border into Canada. A church was founded at Stamstead as early as 1798. As other churches were founded, ministers were drawn from Vermont.
Robert Browne was the first person to write down the basic principles of congregational polity, and to gather a church according to those principles. He was the first separatist from the Church of England—the separatists being a subgroup of the Puritans who felt that the church was too corrupt to reform from within, but that rather a new ...
