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congregationalism

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A type of church government in which each local congregation is self-governing.
  • noun The system of government and religious beliefs of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A system of church government based upon the autonomy of the individual congregation.
  • noun [capitalized] The system of ecclesiastical polity and religious doctrine maintained by the Congregational Church. See congregationalist, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.
  • noun The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several forms of church organization in which each congregation is responsible for its own government

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun system of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing

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