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** Congregational polity
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** Congregational Church History from the Reformation to 1662, London, 1862, awarded the bicentenary prize offered by the Congregational Union
** Surrey Congregational History, London, 1866, in which he dealt more particularly with the records of his own congregation.
* S. Parkes Cadman, prominent minister and leader of the Congregational Christian Churches in the early 20th century **
** A. E. Trout, Nonconformity in Hull, Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 9 ( 1924 – 6 ), 29 – 43, 78 – 85, esp.
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Congregational and polity
" The church took on the additional title " Congregational " in 1931 as a recognition of the historical roots of its polity, and as part of an emerging spirit of communion among Restoration churches.
The United Church of Christ has no formal rules requiring or prohibiting solemnization of wedding vows, but owing to its Congregational polity and constitution, each Local Church is " autonomous in the management of its own affairs " and has the " right to operate in the way customary to it "; it cannot be " abridge or impair " by other UCC agencies, and so each congregation has the freedom to bless or prohibit any kind of marriage or relationship in whatever way they discern appropriate.
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