congregationalism

• All that happens, though, is that in the face of a refusal to exercise authority at the level of Lambeth or anywhere internationally, authority slides down the scales on to the local national church, the local diocese and the local parish, and Anglicanism is invaded by a creeping congregationalism. —  Anglican Mainstream
• University of Oxford in 1651 and who was considered by many to be the leader of the congregationalism, who had preached to the Long Parliament, and who had published a number of works denouncing Edward Whalley's regiment, published a reply to Owen, entitled —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of congregationalism? —  UUpdates - All updates
• Mack, while I do not agree with Baptist congregationalism (which actually makes me a bad LCMS-er), the practical reality is that without the power of the state to back it up, a church hierarch or bureaucracy is powerless to do much of anything about a congregation that has decided to believe and teach heresy. —  The Boar's Head Tavern
• "Baptists were actually practicing some democratic principles in Baptist polity and worship - individual conscience, democratic congregationalism and local-church independence, prophesying by lay members of the congregation - before the tidal wave of the (democratization) of American life after the American Revolution." —  Biblical Recorder

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