Christian Uniting, Discipleship and Worship Working Group
... by the Anglican General Synod, which commended it to the Dioceses for their further action and encouraged its use as a framework for local agreements. In the same month the Assembly Standing Committee commended the statement th to the 14 Assembly „as the basis for ecumenical cooperation with the Ang ...
... by the Anglican General Synod, which commended it to the Dioceses for their further action and encouraged its use as a framework for local agreements. In the same month the Assembly Standing Committee commended the statement th to the 14 Assembly „as the basis for ecumenical cooperation with the Ang ...
Congregational church
Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs. Congregationalism is often considered to be a part of the wider Reformed tradition.Many Congregational churches claim their descent from Protestant denominations formed on a theory of union published by the theologian Robert Browne in 1592. These arose from the nonconformist religious movement during the Puritan Reformation of the Church of England. In Great Britain, the early Congregationalists were called separatists or independents to distinguish them from the similarly Calvinistic Presbyterians. Some Congregationalists in Britain still call themselves independent.Congregational churches were widely established in the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony (later New England), and together wrote the Cambridge Platform of 1648 which described the autonomy of the church and its association with others. The model of Congregational churches was carried by migrating settlers from New England into New York State and then into the ""Old North West,"" the North-West Territory, won in the American Revolution, now the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin (and a small portion of Minnesota). With their insistence on independent local bodies, they became important in many social reform movements, including abolitionism, temperance, and women's suffrage. Modern Congregationalism in the USA is largely split into three bodies: the United Church of Christ, the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, which is the most theologically conservative.Congregationalism, as defined by the Pew Research Center, is estimated to represent 0.5% of the worldwide Protestant population.