Congregationalism

Denomination·Founded 1582 CE·No single body counts Congregationalists. Most of the American churches went into the United Church of Christ in 1957; the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference each hold several hundred congregations, and the Congregational Federation is the surviving English body.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Congregationalism

National Association of Congregational Christian ChurchesUnited Church of ChristArchiveCongregational Library and Archives, Boston

Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × Congregationalism Discussion

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
J John Cotton — the architect of the New England Way, and its prosecutor. The most influential minister in early Massachusetts, whose writing set out congregational government as a complete system. He also drove the banishment of Roger Williams in 1635 and turned on Anne Hutchinson in 1637 after having encouraged her, and defended the colony's right to expel dissenters. Domain The theory of congregational government and the limits of the magistrateStanding Cited as the architect of the New England Way, and held responsible for its cruelties Meet them — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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