congregationalism in English

noun
1
a system of organization among Christian churches whereby individual local churches are largely self-governing.
Separation of the Unitarians from the orthodox Calvinists was complicated by the status of Congregationalism as the established church of Massachusetts until 1833.

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1. 2. Congregational Of or relating to Congregationalism or Congregationalists.

2. Congregational Of or relating to Congregationalism or Congregationalists.

3. Answer: Congregationalism speaks of a form of church government

4. Congregationalism, Christian movement that arose in England in the late 16th and 17th centuries

5. His own studies led him towards a much-modified Congregationalism, with a threefold ministry of evangelists, pastors, and teachers.

6. Most scholars, however, agree that Baptists, as an English-speaking denomination, originated within 17th-century Puritanism as an offshoot of Congregationalism