After the execution of Charles I, Scottish Presbyterians and English Anglicans and Congregationalists, despite sharing a common theology, were divided over the place of the Monarchy – the former supported it while the latter were opposed to it.

Rutherford was involved in written controversies over church government with the New England Independents ( or Congregationalists ).

George H. Atkinson had advocated the founding of the school and with support of the Presbyterians and Congregationalists helped to start the academy.

The Church of South India was the first modern Episcopal uniting church, consisting as it did, from its foundation in 1947, at the time of Indian independence, of Anglicans, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Reformed Christians.

Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1840s into the 1920s, and was sponsored by evangelical Protestant churches, especially the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Disciples and Congregationalists.

The first European settlers of the county, however, were Puritans and Congregationalists from England.

The early Congregationalists sought to separate themselves from the Anglican church in every possible way and even forwent having church buildings.

The Congregationalists were used to a more formal, less evangelistic form of worship than Christian Church members, who mostly came from rural areas of the South and the Midwest.

During the family ’ s stay in Wisconsin, they converted from Congregationalists to Methodists, a Protestant denomination that placed an emphasis on social justice and service to the world.

The Act of Toleration, adopted by the British Parliament in 1689, allowed freedom of worship to Nonconformists who had pledged to the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and rejected transubstantiation The Nonconformists were Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists and Congregationalists.

He then spent 10 years as minister at the Wappetaw Church near Charleston, SC, an interesting congregation composed largely of descendants of a shipwreck that carried Congregationalists from New England.

It was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing heavy support from pietistic Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists, Disciples and Congregationalists.

The Act allowed freedom of worship to Nonconformists who had pledged to the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and rejected transubstantiation, i. e., Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists and Congregationalists but not to Catholics.

While Locke had advocated coexistance between the Church of England ( the official state church ) and dissenting Protestant denominations ( including Congregationalists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and Quakers ) he had excluded Roman Catholics from toleration-the same policy that the Act of Toleration enacted.

Particularly from the mid-seventeenth century forms of Protestant nonconformity, including Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers and later Methodists, grew outside of the established church.

In the midst of all the political involvement, Congregationalists held firmly to the notion that each local church was ruled directly by Jesus Christ, as testified to in the Bible and preached to those convicted by the Holy Spirit, and thus constituted a spiritual republic unto itself, needing no authorization from outside ecclesiastical forces.

Theologically, the Congregationalists spent much of the 19th century moving from orthodox Reformed concepts and teachings ( e. g., total depravity, limited atonement ) toward a decidedly more liberal orientation, facilitated by a group of Yale University-educated pastors in and around the time of the Civil War.

Meanwhile, despite the cherished commitments to independence and freedom, Congregationalists moved increasingly in the direction of espousing the main aims of the ecumenical movement within American ( and world ) Protestantism, a movement gathering much energy from the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe and a perceived decline in religious life among Americans during the first third of the 20th century.

This strengthened the Congregationalists ' transatlantic links, ensuring the Rev George Collison's son a welcome when he visited to gain ideas for Abney Park cemetery's design from Mount Auburn Cemetery.

The description above is of the Ethiopian movement itself, but writers like Bengt Sundkler used Ethiopian in a wider sense to include all African independent church denominations that had broken away from Western-initiated Protestant groups like the Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists, as well as the Anglicans and Methodists.

The church was originally an amalgam of various dissenting Protestant groups with it mostly being a mix of Scottish Presbyterians and Puritan Congregationalists from the American colonies.

In 1905, he denounced a $ 100, 000 gift to the Congregationalists from John D. Rockefeller as " tainted ".

During this time he gained considerable influence amongst metropolitan Congregationalists and secured the funds required for an ambitious rebuilding programme at the Union Chapel, between 1874 and 1890, from designs by James Cubitt.

The church was founded by Congregationalists, and was pastored by the late Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones from 1939 to 1968.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

Some Presbyterian churches have entered into unions with other churches, such as Congregationalists, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Methodists.

This was especially true for the Congregationalists and Presbyterians among them and ( after 1860 ), the Methodists.

The numerical strength of the Baptists and Methodists rose relative to that of the denominations dominant in the colonial period — the Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Reformed.

This colony – the National Colony – was to be a village of temperance with a capital “ T ”, a place where evangelical Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists could live free of the sins of alcohol.

This included 60 Primitive Methodists, 48 Baptists, 40 Congregationalists and 15 Wesleyan Methodists.

In Canada, a coalition of liberal Congregationalists, Methodists, and Presbyterians founded the United Church of Canada, one of the first true Christian left denominations.

The EUB congregations in Canada joined into the United Church of Canada, the largest Protestant denomination in Canada formed in 1925 by Presbyterians ( 70 % came in ), Methodists, and Congregationalists.

As such, diverse groups such as Adventists, Anabaptists, Baptists, Charismatics, Congregationalists, Evangelicals, Holiness churches, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Reformed, and Unitarians ( depending on one's classification scheme ) are all a part of the same family, and with further doctrinal variations within each group.

* Nonconformism – Advocacy of religious liberty ; includes Quakers, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists and Salvationists.

In the North, about 50 % of the voters were pietistic Protestants ( especially Methodists, Scandinavian Lutherans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Disciples of Christ ) who believed the government should be used to reduce social sins, such as drinking.

The numerical strength of the Baptists and Methodists rose relative to that of the denominations dominant in the colonial period — the Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Reformed.

Most belong to the Unitarian or Episcopal churches, although some were Congregationalists or Methodists.

" The Church Militant includes all Christian denominations, such as Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, among many others.

Among the Protestant delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 28 were Church of England ( or Episcopalian, after the American Revolutionary War was won ), eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutherans, two were Dutch Reformed, and two were Methodists.

He related quite positively to other denominations of evangelical Protestants, particularly Congregationalists, Lutherans and Methodists.