Author: South Boston. Evangelical Congregational ChurchPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Articles of Faith, and Form of Covenant, Adopted by the Evangelical Congregational Church in South Boston
Author: South Boston. Evangelical Congregational ChurchPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Articles of Faith and Covenant of the First Congregational Church in Hopkinton, Ms
Author: First Congregational Church (Hopkinton, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Hopkinton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Checklist of American Imprints, 1820-1829
Author: M. Frances CooperPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810805132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This printers, publishers and booksellers index is modeled after Bristol's Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers Indicated by Charles Evans in his American Bibliography. Each entry contains a name and place, with item numbers listed underneath by date. Personal names are listed in the most complete form that could be determined. Corporate names are listed in the form used by the Library of Congress. Newspapers and magazines are entered by their full titles as recorded in Brigham's American Newspapers, 1821-1936 and Union List of Serials. Also included is a geographical index by city and a list of omissions with explanations.
Tenacious of Their Liberties
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195113608
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Although the importance of Congregationalism in early Massachusetts has engaged historians' attention for generations, this study is the first to approach the Puritan experience in Congregational church government from the perspective of both the pew and the pulpit. For the past decade, author James F. Cooper, Jr. has immersed himself in local manuscript church records. These previously untapped documents provide a fascinating glimpse of lay-clerical relations in colonial Massachusetts, and reveal that ordinary churchgoers shaped the development of Congregational practices as much as the clerical and elite personages who for so long have populated histories of this period. Cooper's new findings will both challenge existing models of church hierarchy and offer a new dimension to our understanding of the origins of New England democracy. Refuting the idea of clerical predominance in the governance of colonial Massachusetts churches, Cooper shows that the laity were both informed and empowered to rule with ministers, rather than beneath them. From the outset of the Congregational experiment, ministers articulated--and lay people embraced--principles of limited authority, higher law, and free consent in the conduct of church affairs. These principles were codified early on in the Cambridge Platform, which the laity used as their standard in resisting infringements upon their rights. By neglecting the democratic components of Congregationalism, Cooper argues, scholars have missed the larger political significance of the movement. Congregational thought and practice in fact served as one indigenous seedbed of several concepts that would later flourish during the Revolutionary generation, including the notions that government derives its legitimacy from the voluntary consent of the governed, that governors should be chosen by the governed, that rulers should be accountable to the ruled, and that constitutional checks should limit both the governors and the people. By examining the development of church government through the perspective of lay-clerical interchange, Cooper comes to a fresh understanding of the sometimes noble, sometimes sordid, and sometimes rowdy nature of church politics. His study casts new light upon Anne Hutchinson and the "Antinomian Controversy," the Cambridge Platform, the Halfway Covenant, the Reforming Synod of 1679, and the long-standing debate over Puritan "declension." Cooper argues that, in general, church government did not divide Massachusetts culture along lay-clerical lines, but instead served as a powerful component of a popular religion and an ideology whose fundamentals were shared by churchgoers and most ministers throughout much of the colonial era. His is a book that will interest students of American culture, religion, government, and history.
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie RuskPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
An Appeal to the Christian Public in Defence of Reason and National Christianity
Author: Henry Bennet BrewsterPublisher:
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Category : Liberalism (Religion).
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A List of Books and Pamphlets in the Dover Public Library Relating to New Hampshire
Author: Dover Public Library (Dover, N.H.)Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Congregational Quarterly
Author: Joseph Sylvester ClarkPublisher:
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Historical Discourse Delivered at the Centennial Anniversary of the Congregational Church, Candia, N.H., April 5, 1871
Author: James Hill FittsPublisher:
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Category : Candia (N.H. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Manual of the Southport Congregational Church in Southport, Conn. 1843-1882
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385410983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.