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template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Congregationalism in the United States</b> consists of <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> churches in the <a href="/wiki/Reformed_tradition" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed tradition">Reformed tradition</a> that have a <a href="/wiki/Congregationalist_polity" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregationalist polity">congregational form of church government</a> and trace their origins mainly to <a href="/wiki/Puritans" title="Puritans">Puritan</a> settlers of <a href="/wiki/Colonial_New_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonial New England">colonial New England</a>. <a href="/wiki/Congregational_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregational church">Congregational churches</a> in other parts of the world are often related to these in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> due to American <a href="/wiki/Christian_mission" title="Christian mission">missionary</a> activities. </p><p>These principles are enshrined in the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Platform" title="Cambridge Platform">Cambridge Platform</a> (1648) and the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Declaration" title="Savoy Declaration">Savoy Declaration</a> (1658), Congregationalist <a href="/wiki/Confession_of_faith" class="mw-redirect" title="Confession of faith">confessions of faith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rohr2008_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rohr2008-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Fields2024_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fields2024-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Congregationalist Churches are a continuity of the theological tradition upheld by the <a href="/wiki/Puritans" title="Puritans">Puritans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Melton2005_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Melton2005-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their genesis was through the work of Congregationalist divines <a href="/wiki/Robert_Browne_(Brownist)" title="Robert Browne (Brownist)">Robert Browne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Barrowe" title="Henry Barrowe">Henry Barrowe</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Greenwood_(divine)" title="John Greenwood (divine)">John Greenwood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Congregational churches have had an important impact on the religious, political, and cultural history of the United States. Congregational practices concerning church governance influenced the early development of democratic institutions in New England. Many of the nation's oldest educational institutions, such as <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bowdoin_College" title="Bowdoin College">Bowdoin College</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>, were founded to train Congregational clergy. Congregational churches and ministers influenced the <a href="/wiki/First_Great_Awakening" title="First Great Awakening">First</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening" title="Second Great Awakening">Second Great Awakenings</a> and were early promoters of the missionary movement of the 19th century. The Congregational tradition has shaped both <a href="/wiki/Mainline_Protestantism" class="mw-redirect" title="Mainline Protestantism">mainline</a> and <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism_in_the_United_States" title="Evangelicalism in the United States">evangelical Protestantism</a> in the United States. </p><p>In the 20th century, the Congregational tradition in America fragmented into three different <a href="/wiki/Christian_denomination" title="Christian denomination">denominations</a>. The largest of these is the <a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ">United Church of Christ</a>, which resulted from a 1957 merger with the <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_and_Reformed_Church" title="Evangelical and Reformed Church">Evangelical and Reformed Church</a>. Congregationalists who chose not to join the United Church of Christ founded two alternative denominations: the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Congregational_Christian_Churches" title="National Association of Congregational Christian Churches">National Association of Congregational Christian Churches</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Congregational_Christian_Conference" title="Conservative Congregational Christian Conference">Conservative Congregational Christian Conference</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_century">17th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 17th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Early_settlement">Early settlement</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Puritans_in_North_America" title="History of the Puritans in North America">History of the Puritans in North America</a> and <a href="/wiki/Puritan_migration_to_New_England_(1620%E2%80%9340)" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan migration to New England (1620–40)">Puritan migration to New England (1620–40)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George-Henry-Boughton-Pilgrims-Going-To-Church.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/George-Henry-Boughton-Pilgrims-Going-To-Church.jpg/220px-George-Henry-Boughton-Pilgrims-Going-To-Church.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/George-Henry-Boughton-Pilgrims-Going-To-Church.jpg/330px-George-Henry-Boughton-Pilgrims-Going-To-Church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/George-Henry-Boughton-Pilgrims-Going-To-Church.jpg/440px-George-Henry-Boughton-Pilgrims-Going-To-Church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="1732" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Pilgrims_Going_to_Church" title="Pilgrims Going to Church">Pilgrims Going to Church</a></i>, an 1867 portrait by <a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Boughton" title="George Henry Boughton">George Henry Boughton</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Congregational tradition was brought to America in the 1620s and 1630s by the <a href="/wiki/Puritans" title="Puritans">Puritans</a>—a <a href="/wiki/Calvinistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinistic">Calvinistic</a> group within the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> that desired to purify it of any remaining teachings and practices of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremer20092–3_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremer20092–3-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As part of their reforms, Puritans desired to replace the Church of England's <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_polity" title="Episcopal polity">episcopal polity</a> (rule by <a href="/wiki/Bishop" title="Bishop">bishops</a>) with another form of church government. Some English Puritans favored <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_polity" title="Presbyterian polity">presbyterian polity</a> (rule by assemblies of <a href="/wiki/Presbyter" title="Presbyter">presbyters</a>), as was utilized by the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scotland" title="Church of Scotland">Church of Scotland</a>, but those who founded the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a> organized their churches according to <a href="/wiki/Congregationalist_polity" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregationalist polity">congregational polity</a> (rule by members of the local church).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremer20099,_20_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremer20099,_20-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first Congregational church organized in America was <a href="/wiki/First_Parish_Church_in_Plymouth" title="First Parish Church in Plymouth">First Parish Church in Plymouth</a>, which was established in 1620 by <a href="/wiki/Puritans#Ecclesiology" title="Puritans">Separatist Puritans</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)" title="Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)">Pilgrims</a>. The first Congregational church organized in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was <a href="/wiki/First_Church_in_Salem" title="First Church in Salem">First Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Salem,_Massachusetts" title="Salem, Massachusetts">Salem</a>, established in 1629. By 1640, 18 churches had been organized in Massachusetts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199914,_33_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199914,_33-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, Puritans established the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Colony" title="Connecticut Colony">Connecticut Colony</a> in 1636 and <a href="/wiki/New_Haven_Colony" title="New Haven Colony">New Haven Colony</a> in 1637.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremer200921–22_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremer200921–22-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eventually, there were 33 Congregational churches in New England.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894116_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894116-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to historian James F. Cooper Jr., Congregationalism helped imbue the political culture of Massachusetts with several important concepts: "adherence to fundamental or 'higher' laws, strict limitations upon all human authority, free consent, local self-government, and, especially, extensive lay participation."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199918_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199918-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, congregational polity also meant the absence of any centralized church authority. The result was that at times the first generation of Congregationalists struggled to agree on common beliefs and practices.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199918_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199918-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To help achieve unity, Puritan clergy would often meet in conferences to discuss issues arising within the churches and to offer advice. Congregationalists also looked to the ministers of the <a href="/wiki/First_Church_in_Boston" title="First Church in Boston">First Church in Boston</a> to set examples for other churches to follow. One of the most prominent of these ministers was <a href="/wiki/John_Cotton_(minister)" title="John Cotton (minister)">John Cotton</a>, considered by historians to be the "father of New England Congregationalism", who through his preaching, helped to standardize Congregational practices. Because of these efforts, agreement on <a href="/wiki/Reformed_baptismal_theology" title="Reformed baptismal theology">baptism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Church_discipline" title="Church discipline">church discipline</a>, and the election of church officers were largely achieved by 1635.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199920–22_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199920–22-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plimoth_Plantation_at_Plymouth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Plimoth_Plantation_at_Plymouth.jpg/220px-Plimoth_Plantation_at_Plymouth.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Plimoth_Plantation_at_Plymouth.jpg/330px-Plimoth_Plantation_at_Plymouth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Plimoth_Plantation_at_Plymouth.jpg/440px-Plimoth_Plantation_at_Plymouth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>Recreation of Plymouth's fort and first church <a href="/wiki/Colonial_meeting_house" title="Colonial meeting house">meeting house</a> at <a href="/wiki/Plimoth_Plantation" class="mw-redirect" title="Plimoth Plantation">Plimoth Plantation</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The colonists developed a system in which each community organized a <a href="/wiki/Gathered_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Gathered church">gathered church</a> of believers (i.e., only those who were thought to be among the <a href="/wiki/Unconditional_election" title="Unconditional election">elect</a> and could give an account of a <a href="/wiki/Born_again" title="Born again">conversion experience</a> were admitted as members).<sup id="cite_ref-quote_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quote-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Every congregation was founded upon a <a href="/wiki/Church_covenant" title="Church covenant">church covenant</a>, a written agreement signed by all members in which they agreed to uphold congregational principles, to be guided by <i><a href="/wiki/Sola_scriptura" title="Sola scriptura">sola scriptura</a></i> in their decision making, and to submit to church discipline. The right of each congregation to elect its own officers and manage its own affairs was upheld.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremer200920_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremer200920-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199913_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199913-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The major offices were <a href="/wiki/Elder_(Christianity)" title="Elder (Christianity)">elder</a> (or presbyter) and <a href="/wiki/Deacon" title="Deacon">deacon</a>. Teaching elders or <a href="/wiki/Minister_(Christianity)" title="Minister (Christianity)">ministers</a> were responsible for <a href="/wiki/Preaching" class="mw-redirect" title="Preaching">preaching</a> and administering the <a href="/wiki/Sacrament#Reformed_(Continental_Reformed,_Congregationalist,_and_Presbyterian)" title="Sacrament">sacraments</a>. In some churches, prominent <a href="/wiki/Laity" title="Laity">laymen</a> would be elected for life as ruling elders to govern the church alongside teaching elders (lay elders could preach but not administer sacraments). In the beginning, deacons largely handled financial matters. By the middle of the 17th century, most churches did not have lay elders, and deacons assisted the minister in leading the church. Congregations also elected messengers to represent them in <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synods</a> (church councils) for the purpose of offering non-binding advisory opinions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199924,_26_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199924,_26-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Puritans created a society in which Congregationalism was the <a href="/wiki/State_church" class="mw-redirect" title="State church">state church</a>, its ministers were supported by taxpayers, and only full church members could vote in elections.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894114,_221_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894114,_221-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To ensure that Massachusetts had a supply of educated ministers, <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> was founded in 1636.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199831_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199831-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Defining_Congregationalism">Defining Congregationalism</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Defining Congregationalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Antinomian_Controversy" title="Antinomian Controversy">Antinomian Controversy</a> (1636–1638), ministers realized the need for greater communication between churches and standardization of preaching. As a consequence, nonbinding ministerial conferences to discuss theological questions and address conflicts became more frequent in the following years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199955–56_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199955–56-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A more substantial innovation was the implementation of the "third way of communion", a method of isolating a dissident or <a href="/wiki/Heretical" class="mw-redirect" title="Heretical">heretical</a> church from neighboring churches. Members of an offending church would be unable to worship or receive the <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Supper_in_Reformed_theology" title="Lord's Supper in Reformed theology">Lord's Supper</a> in other churches.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199957_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199957-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1640s, Congregationalists were under pressure to craft a formal statement of congregational church government. This was partly motivated by the need to reassure English Puritans (who favored presbyterian polity) about congregational government. In 1645, residents of Massachusetts who resented the limitation of voting rights to full church members threatened to appeal to the <a href="/wiki/English_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="English Parliament">English Parliament</a>, raising fears that the English government might intervene to change the churches' restrictive membership policies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199976_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199976-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDunning1894144_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunning1894144-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also thought necessary to combat the threat of <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterianism</a> at home. Conflict erupted in the churches at <a href="/wiki/Newbury,_Massachusetts" title="Newbury, Massachusetts">Newbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Old_Ship_Church" title="Old Ship Church">Hingham</a> when their pastors began introducing presbyterian governance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199969–70_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199969–70-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_General_Court" title="Massachusetts General Court">Massachusetts General Court</a> called for a <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a> of ministers and <a href="/wiki/Laity" title="Laity">lay</a> representatives to meet in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a> to craft such a statement. The <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Platform" title="Cambridge Platform">Cambridge Platform</a> was completed by the synod in 1648 and commended by the General Court as an accurate description of Congregational practice after the churches were given time to study the document, provide feedback, and finally, ratify it. While the Platform was legally nonbinding and intended only to be descriptive, it soon became regarded by ministers and laypeople alike as the religious constitution of Massachusetts, guaranteeing the rights of church officers and members.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199979–84_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199979–84-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Missionary efforts among the <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a> began in the 1640s. <a href="/wiki/John_Eliot_(missionary)" title="John Eliot (missionary)">John Eliot</a> started missionary work among the natives in 1646 and later published the <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Indian_Bible" title="Eliot Indian Bible">Eliot Indian Bible</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Massachusett_language" title="Massachusett language">Massachusett language</a> translation. The <a href="/wiki/Experience_Mayhew" title="Experience Mayhew">Mayhew family</a> began their work among the natives of <a href="/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard" title="Martha's Vineyard">Martha's Vineyard</a> around the same time as Eliot. These missionary efforts suffered serious setbacks as a result of <a href="/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War" title="King Philip's War">King Philip's War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894165–168_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894165–168-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1696, New England had over 130 white churches and 30 Native American towns with Native American preachers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDunning1894170_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunning1894170-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Half-Way_Covenant_and_Puritan_decline">Half-Way Covenant and Puritan decline</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Half-Way Covenant and Puritan decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:InteriorOldShip.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/InteriorOldShip.jpg/220px-InteriorOldShip.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/InteriorOldShip.jpg/330px-InteriorOldShip.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/InteriorOldShip.jpg/440px-InteriorOldShip.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Old_Ship_Church" title="Old Ship Church">Old Ship Church</a>, a Puritan <a href="/wiki/Meetinghouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Meetinghouse">meetinghouse</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hingham,_Massachusetts" title="Hingham, Massachusetts">Hingham, Massachusetts</a>. The plain style reflects the Calvinist values of the Puritans.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the years after the Antinomian Controversy, Congregationalists struggled with the problem of decreasing conversions among second-generation settlers. These unconverted adults had been baptized as infants, and most of them studied the Bible, attended church, and raised their children as Christians. Nevertheless, they were barred from receiving the Lord's Supper, voting, or holding office in the church.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199857–59_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199857–59-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1660s, the <a href="/wiki/Half-Way_Covenant" title="Half-Way Covenant">Half-Way Covenant</a> was proposed, which would allow the grandchildren of church members to be baptized as long as their parents accepted their congregation's covenant and lived Christian lives.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199860_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199860-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some churches maintained the original standard into the 1700s. Other churches went beyond the Half-Way Covenant, opening baptism to all infants whether or not their parents or grandparents had been baptized. Other churches, citing the belief that baptism and the Lord's Supper were "converting ordinances" capable of helping the unconverted achieve salvation, allowed the unconverted to receive the Lord's Supper as well.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199862_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199862-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The decline of conversions and the division over the Half-Way Covenant was part of a larger loss of confidence experienced by Puritans in the latter half of the 17th century. In the 1660s and 1670s, Puritans began noting signs of moral decline in New England, and ministers began preaching <a href="/wiki/Jeremiad" title="Jeremiad">jeremiads</a> calling people to account for their sins. The most popular jeremiad, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Wigglesworth" title="Michael Wigglesworth">Michael Wigglesworth</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/The_Day_of_Doom" title="The Day of Doom">The Day of Doom</a>", became the first <a href="/wiki/Best_seller" class="mw-redirect" title="Best seller">bestseller</a> in America.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199863–64_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199863–64-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Declaration" title="Savoy Declaration">Savoy Declaration</a>, a modification of the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith" title="Westminster Confession of Faith">Westminster Confession of Faith</a>, was adopted as a Congregationalist confessional statement in Massachusetts in 1680 and Connecticut in 1708.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199852_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199852-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1684, Massachusetts' colonial charter was revoked. It was merged with the other <a href="/wiki/Bible_Commonwealths" title="Bible Commonwealths">Bible Commonwealths</a> along with New York and New Jersey into the <a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_New_England" title="Dominion of New England">Dominion of New England</a>. <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Andros" title="Edmund Andros">Edmund Andros</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a>, was appointed <a href="/wiki/Colonial_government_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies" title="Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies">royal governor</a> and demanded that Anglicans be allowed to worship freely in Boston. The Dominion collapsed after the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a> of 1688–89, and a new charter was granted in 1691. However, the power of the Congregational churches remained diminished. The governor continued to be appointed by <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">the Crown</a>, and voting rights were now based on wealth rather than church membership.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199867_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199867-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Associations_develop">Associations develop</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Associations develop"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Houghton_MS_Am_2095_(1)_-_Fisher,_Harvard_views_-_edit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Houghton_MS_Am_2095_%281%29_-_Fisher%2C_Harvard_views_-_edit.jpg/220px-Houghton_MS_Am_2095_%281%29_-_Fisher%2C_Harvard_views_-_edit.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Houghton_MS_Am_2095_%281%29_-_Fisher%2C_Harvard_views_-_edit.jpg/330px-Houghton_MS_Am_2095_%281%29_-_Fisher%2C_Harvard_views_-_edit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Houghton_MS_Am_2095_%281%29_-_Fisher%2C_Harvard_views_-_edit.jpg/440px-Houghton_MS_Am_2095_%281%29_-_Fisher%2C_Harvard_views_-_edit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2239" data-file-height="1399" /></a><figcaption>Campus of <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, c. 1821-1823</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 18th century, Congregational ministers began forming clerical associations for fellowship and consultation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199872_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199872-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first association was the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Association" title="Cambridge Association">Cambridge Association</a>, formed in 1690 for ministers in and around Boston. It met in Cambridge on the grounds of Harvard. Its purpose was to "debate any matter referring to ourselves" and "to hear and consider any cases that shall be proposed unto us, from churches or private persons". By 1692, two other associations had been formed, and the number had increased to five by 1705.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894199_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894199-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1690s, <a href="/wiki/John_Leverett_the_Younger" title="John Leverett the Younger">John Leverett the Younger</a>, William Brattle (pastor of <a href="/wiki/First_Parish_in_Cambridge" title="First Parish in Cambridge">First Parish in Cambridge</a>), <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brattle" title="Thomas Brattle">Thomas Brattle</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ebenezer_Pemberton_(minister)" title="Ebenezer Pemberton (minister)">Ebenezer Pemberton</a> (pastor of <a href="/wiki/Old_South_Church" title="Old South Church">Old South Church</a>) proposed a number of changes in Congregational practice. These changes included abandoning the consideration of conversion narratives in granting church membership and allowing all baptized members of a community (whether full members or not) to vote in elections for ministers. They also supported the baptism of all children presented by any Christian sponsor and the <a href="/wiki/Liturgical" class="mw-redirect" title="Liturgical">liturgical</a> use of the <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer" title="Lord's Prayer">Lord's Prayer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894200_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894200-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These changes were strongly opposed by <a href="/wiki/Increase_Mather" title="Increase Mather">Increase Mather</a>, president of Harvard. The result was that Thomas Brattle and his associates built a new church in Boston in 1698. They invited Benjamin Colman, then in England, to become the pastor. Coleman was ordained by Presbyterians in England before leaving for America because it was assumed that the conservative churches of Boston would have opposed his ordination in New England. After arriving in November 1699, his manner of ordination was controversial given that it had not been done by the congregation he was to serve, as was Congregational practice. <a href="/wiki/Brattle_Street_Church" title="Brattle Street Church">Brattle Street Church</a> was organized on December 12, 1699, but without the support of the other churches in the colony. Despite the opposition of Mather and other conservatives, however, the church gained recognition, and in time it became indistinguishable from other Congregational churches.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894200–201_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894200–201-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 1730s, Colman was the leading <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism_in_the_United_States" title="Evangelicalism in the United States">evangelical</a> pastor in Boston.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKidd200721_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKidd200721-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ultimately, the formation of Brattle Street Church spurred Congregationalists to modify their polity and strengthen the role of associations in order to promote greater uniformity. Representatives from the Massachusetts ministerial associations met in Boston in September 1705. They proposed a plan with two major features. The first was that associations examine and license ministerial candidates, investigate charges of ministerial misconduct, and annually elect delegates to a colony-wide general association. The second feature was the creation of "standing councils" of ministers and lay representatives to supervise the churches within a geographical area and to act as counterparts to the ministerial associations. The decisions of these councils were to be "final and decisive" but could be referred to a neighboring standing council for further review. If a church refused to adhere to a council's ruling, the neighboring churches would withdraw <a href="/wiki/Communion_(Christian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Communion (Christian)">communion</a> from the offending church. In Massachusetts, the proposals encountered much opposition as they were viewed as being inconsistent with congregational polity. The creation of standing councils was never acted on, but Massachusetts associations did adopt a system of ministerial licensure.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894202–204_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894202–204-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While largely rejected in Massachusetts, the proposals of 1705 received a more favorable reception in Connecticut. In September 1708, a synod met at the request of the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_General_Assembly" title="Connecticut General Assembly">Connecticut General Assembly</a> to write a new platform of church government. The <a href="/wiki/Saybrook_Platform" title="Saybrook Platform">Saybrook Platform</a> called for the creation of standing councils called <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consociation" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:consociation">consociations</a> in every county and tasked associations with providing ministerial consultation and licensure. The platform was approved by the General Assembly, and associations and consociations were formed in every county. The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalist_General_Association_of_Connecticut&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Congregationalist General Association of Connecticut (page does not exist)">General Association of Connecticut</a> was formed as a colony-wide organization of ministers and met for the first time in May 1709. The Saybrook Platform was legally recognized until 1784 and continued to govern the majority of Connecticut churches until the middle of the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894207–208_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894207–208-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> was established by the Congregational clergy of Connecticut in 1701.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894206_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894206-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Great_Awakening">Great Awakening</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Great Awakening"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/First_Great_Awakening" title="First Great Awakening">First Great Awakening</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Interior_-_Old_South_Meeting_House_-_Boston,_MA_-_DSC05822.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Interior_-_Old_South_Meeting_House_-_Boston%2C_MA_-_DSC05822.jpg/220px-Interior_-_Old_South_Meeting_House_-_Boston%2C_MA_-_DSC05822.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Interior_-_Old_South_Meeting_House_-_Boston%2C_MA_-_DSC05822.jpg/330px-Interior_-_Old_South_Meeting_House_-_Boston%2C_MA_-_DSC05822.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Interior_-_Old_South_Meeting_House_-_Boston%2C_MA_-_DSC05822.jpg/440px-Interior_-_Old_South_Meeting_House_-_Boston%2C_MA_-_DSC05822.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5472" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Old_South_Meeting_House" title="Old South Meeting House">Old South Meeting House</a>, one of the churches where <a href="/wiki/George_Whitefield" title="George Whitefield">George Whitefield</a> preached while in Boston in 1740.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>By 1740, there were 423 Congregational churches in colonial America—33.7 percent of all churches.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENoll2002162_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENoll2002162-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, at the start of the 18th century, many believed that New England had become a morally degenerate society more focused on worldly gain than religious piety. Church historian <a href="/wiki/Williston_Walker" title="Williston Walker">Williston Walker</a> described New England piety of the time as "low and unemotional."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894251_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894251-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To spiritually awaken their congregations and rescue the original Puritan mission of creating a godly society, Congregational ministers promoted <a href="/wiki/Christian_revival" title="Christian revival">revivalism</a>, the attempt to bring spiritual renewal to an entire community.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199872_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199872-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first two decades of the 18th century saw local revivals occur that resulted in large numbers of converts. These revivals sometimes resulted from natural disasters that were interpreted as divine judgment.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199873_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199873-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, revival followed after the earthquake of October 29, 1727.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894252_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894252-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1735, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(theologian)" title="Jonathan Edwards (theologian)">Jonathan Edwards</a> led his First Church congregation of <a href="/wiki/Northampton,_Massachusetts" title="Northampton, Massachusetts">Northampton, Massachusetts</a>, through a religious revival. His <i><a href="/wiki/A_Faithful_Narrative_of_the_Surprising_Work_of_God_in_the_Conversion_of_Many_Hundred_Souls_in_Northampton" class="mw-redirect" title="A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton">Narrative of Surprising Conversions</a></i>, describing the conversion experiences that occurred in the revival, was widely read throughout New England and raised hopes among Congregationalists of a general revival of religion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199873_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199873-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These hopes were seemingly fulfilled with the start of the <a href="/wiki/First_Great_Awakening" title="First Great Awakening">Great Awakening</a>, which was initiated by the preaching of <a href="/wiki/George_Whitefield" title="George Whitefield">George Whitefield</a>, an Anglican priest who had preached revivalistic sermons to large audiences in England. He arrived in Boston in September 1740, preaching first at Brattle Street Church, and then visited other parts of New England. Though he was only in New England for a few weeks, the revival spread to every part of the region in the two years following his brief tour. Whitefield was followed by the <a href="/wiki/Itinerant_preacher" title="Itinerant preacher">itinerant preacher</a> and Presbyterian minister <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Tennent" title="Gilbert Tennent">Gilbert Tennent</a> and dozens of other itinerants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199874_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199874-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Initially, the Awakening's strongest supporters came from Congregational ministers, who had already been working to foster revivals in their <a href="/wiki/Parishes" class="mw-redirect" title="Parishes">parishes</a>. Itinerants and local pastors worked together to produce and nourish revivals, and often local pastors would cooperate together to lead revivals in neighboring parishes. The most famous sermon preached during the Great Awakening, for example, was "<a href="/wiki/Sinners_in_the_Hands_of_an_Angry_God" title="Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God">Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God</a>", delivered by Edwards at <a href="/wiki/Enfield,_Connecticut" title="Enfield, Connecticut">Enfield, Connecticut</a>, in July 1741. Many in the congregation were affected by Edwards's sermon, with minister Stephen Williams reporting "amazing shrieks and cries" caused by the heightened religious excitement.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199874–75_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199874–75-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jonathan_Edwards_(Princeton_Portrait).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Jonathan_Edwards_%28Princeton_Portrait%29.jpg/220px-Jonathan_Edwards_%28Princeton_Portrait%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Jonathan_Edwards_%28Princeton_Portrait%29.jpg/330px-Jonathan_Edwards_%28Princeton_Portrait%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Jonathan_Edwards_%28Princeton_Portrait%29.jpg/440px-Jonathan_Edwards_%28Princeton_Portrait%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1669" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(theologian)" title="Jonathan Edwards (theologian)">Jonathan Edwards</a>, revivalist and theologian</figcaption></figure> <p>By 1742, the revival had entered a more radical and disruptive phase. Lay people became more active participants in the services by crying out, exhorting, or having <a href="/wiki/Vision_(spirituality)" title="Vision (spirituality)">visions</a>. Uneducated men and women began to preach without formal training, and some itinerant preachers were active in parishes without the approval of the local pastor. Enthusiasts even claimed that many of the clergies were unconverted themselves and thus unqualified to be ministers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199879_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199879-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Congregationalists split into <a href="/wiki/Old_and_New_Light" class="mw-redirect" title="Old and New Light">Old Lights and New Lights</a> over the Awakening, with Old Lights opposing it and New Lights supporting it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199882_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199882-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A notable example of revival radicalism was <a href="/wiki/James_Davenport_(clergyman)" title="James Davenport (clergyman)">James Davenport</a>, a Congregational minister who preached to large crowds throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. Davenport denounced ministers who opposed him as being "unconverted" and "leading their people blindfold to hell." In March 1743, he held a <a href="/wiki/Book_burning" title="Book burning">book burning</a> of the works of Increase Mather, <a href="/wiki/William_Beveridge_(bishop)" title="William Beveridge (bishop)">William Beveridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Flavel" title="John Flavel">John Flavel</a>, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894259_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894259-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Concerns over the revival led the Connecticut General Assembly to call a synod in 1741, which was the last Congregational synod convened under state authority. This "General Consociation" consisted of both lay and clerical representatives from all of the consociations in the colony. It ruled that itinerant ministers should preach in no parish except with the permission of the local pastor. In May 1742, the General Assembly passed legislation requiring ministers to receive permission to preach from the local pastor; violation of the law would result in the loss of a minister's state-provided salary.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894261–262_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894261–262-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1743, the annual Massachusetts Ministerial Convention condemned "the disorderly tumults and indecent behaviors" that occurred in many revival meetings. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Chauncy_(1705%E2%80%931787)" title="Charles Chauncy (1705–1787)">Charles Chauncy</a> of Boston's First Church became the leader of the revival's opponents with the publication of his <i>Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England</i>, which attacked the enthusiasm and extravagant behaviors of revival meetings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other Congregationalists met at Boston in 1743 under the leadership of Benjamin Colman of Brattle Street Church and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Prince_(historian)" title="Thomas Prince (historian)">Thomas Prince</a> of <a href="/wiki/Old_South_Meeting_House" title="Old South Meeting House">Old South Church</a>. They issued a resolution supporting the revival as the work of God and downplaying the impact of "irregularities" that had occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, the atmosphere toward revival had changed by 1744 when Whitefield returned to New England. The faculties of Harvard and Yale issued statements critical of his methods, and ministerial associations throughout the region spoke against allowing him to preach in their churches.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199884_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199884-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="separate"></span> While most New Lights stayed within the established Congregational churches, there were still those in New England who embraced the radical wing of the Awakening–with its trances, visions and shouting. When radical revivalists could not control their local churches, they separated from the state churches and formed new congregations. These Separate or Strict Congregationalists were often poor. They rejected the necessity of an educated ministry, ministerial associations (which had tried to control the revival), and the Half-Way Covenant. Prone to <a href="/wiki/Schism" title="Schism">schisms</a> and forced to pay taxes for the state churches, Separate Congregationalists did not survive long.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199884_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199884-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The more traditional ones returned to the established Congregational churches, while the most radical embraced <a href="/wiki/Adult_baptism" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult baptism">adult baptism</a> and became <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptists</a>. <a href="/wiki/Shubal_Stearns" title="Shubal Stearns">Shubal Stearns</a>, a Separate Congregationalist missionary to the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Colonies" title="Southern Colonies">South</a>, became the founding father of the <a href="/wiki/Separate_Baptists" title="Separate Baptists">Separate Baptists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaves199971_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaves199971-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Liberals,_Old_Calvinists,_and_the_New_Divinity"><span id="Liberals.2C_Old_Calvinists.2C_and_the_New_Divinity"></span>Liberals, Old Calvinists, and the New Divinity</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Liberals, Old Calvinists, and the New Divinity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Old_and_New_Light" class="mw-redirect" title="Old and New Light">Old and New Light</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charles_Chauncy_by_MacKay.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Charles_Chauncy_by_MacKay.jpg/220px-Charles_Chauncy_by_MacKay.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Charles_Chauncy_by_MacKay.jpg/330px-Charles_Chauncy_by_MacKay.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Charles_Chauncy_by_MacKay.jpg/440px-Charles_Chauncy_by_MacKay.jpg 2x" data-file-width="632" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Charles_Chauncy_(1705%E2%80%931787)" title="Charles Chauncy (1705–1787)">Charles Chauncy</a> was an influential liberal theologian and opponent of New Light revivalism.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Great Awakening further aggravated theological divisions that had already existed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199888_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199888-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of the 18th century, Congregationalists were divided between liberal, Old Calvinist, and <a href="/wiki/New_Divinity" class="mw-redirect" title="New Divinity">New Divinity</a> factions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984241_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984241-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the influence of <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a> thought, liberals rejected the Calvinism of their Puritan heritage, particularly the doctrines of <a href="/wiki/Total_depravity" title="Total depravity">total depravity</a>, unconditional election, and <a href="/wiki/Predestination_in_Calvinism#Double_predestination" title="Predestination in Calvinism">double predestination</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorrien20011,_5_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorrien20011,_5-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These taught that sinners were deserving of damnation while helpless to achieve salvation. Liberals believed this was unfair and adopted an <a href="/wiki/Arminian" class="mw-redirect" title="Arminian">Arminian</a> theology that gave individuals a role in their own salvation. Liberal Arminians did not teach that <a href="/wiki/Good_works" title="Good works">good works</a> could earn salvation, but they did teach that a person who strove for <a href="/wiki/Regeneration_(theology)" title="Regeneration (theology)">regeneration</a> by virtuous living and the performance of good works could expect to receive eternal life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984245_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984245-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199889–91_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199889–91-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Liberals such as Charles Chauncy embraced <a href="/wiki/Universal_salvation" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal salvation">universal salvation</a> and believed that <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">hell</a> was a cleansing <a href="/wiki/Purgatory" title="Purgatory">purgatory</a>, not an eternal punishment. Many liberals rejected the doctrine of the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a> in favor of an <a href="/wiki/Arian" class="mw-redirect" title="Arian">Arian</a> Christology that preserved the unity of God. For this reason, their opponents disparagingly called them <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarians</a>, even though they called themselves liberal Christians or Arminians. Alongside Chauncy, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Mayhew" title="Jonathan Mayhew">Jonathan Mayhew</a> of Boston's <a href="/wiki/Old_West_Church_(Boston,_Massachusetts)" title="Old West Church (Boston, Massachusetts)">West Church</a> was another prominent liberal minister.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDorrien20013–5_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorrien20013–5-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the opposite end of the theological spectrum were the Old Calvinists, who continued to adhere to Reformed <a href="/wiki/Covenant_theology" title="Covenant theology">covenant theology</a> and the doctrines contained in the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Standards" title="Westminster Standards">Westminster Standards</a>. The Old Calvinists included both Old Lights, New Lights, and Moderate Calvinists within their ranks. Moderate Calvinists avoided preaching on the doctrines of election and <a href="/wiki/Reprobation" title="Reprobation">reprobation</a> in response to attacks on Calvinism from Enlightenment philosophers. To make Calvinism less offensive, the Moderates preached on practical topics and emphasized <a href="/wiki/Preparationism" title="Preparationism">preparing for conversion</a> through the use of the <a href="/wiki/Means_of_grace" title="Means of grace">means of grace</a> (preaching, <a href="/wiki/Catechizing" class="mw-redirect" title="Catechizing">catechizing</a>, prayer) and <a href="/wiki/Pastoral_care" title="Pastoral care">pastoral care</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984241–242_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984241–242-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECaldwell201234–35_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECaldwell201234–35-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ezra_Stiles" title="Ezra Stiles">Ezra Stiles</a> was a notable Old Calvinist.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984244_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984244-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the two decades after the First Great Awakening, the tone of Congregational thought was set by New Light theologian Jonathan Edwards and his followers, the most notable being <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bellamy" title="Joseph Bellamy">Joseph Bellamy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hopkins_(theologian)" title="Samuel Hopkins (theologian)">Samuel Hopkins</a>. The <a href="/wiki/New_Divinity" class="mw-redirect" title="New Divinity">New Divinity</a>, as the Edwardsean school of thought, became known, sought to answer Arminian objections to Calvinism and to provide a theological basis for the revivalism that had been unleashed by the Great Awakening. The New Divinity would remain the dominant theological orientation within the Congregational churches into the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998108–109_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998108–109-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Revolutionary-era">Revolutionary-era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Revolutionary-era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>, most Congregational ministers sided with the <a href="/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriots</a> and American independence. This was largely because ministers chose to stand with their congregations who felt the British government was becoming tyrannical. Ministers were also motivated by fear that the British would appoint Anglican bishops for the American colonies. This had been proposed as a practical measure; American bishops could ordain Anglican priests in the colonies without requiring candidates for ordination to travel to England. Congregationalists, however, remembered how their Puritan ancestors were oppressed by bishops in England and had no desire to see the same system in America.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998114_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998114-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ministers preached patriotic sermons on Sundays and during <a href="/wiki/Militia_(United_States)" title="Militia (United States)">militia</a> musters. Jonathan Mayhew, for example, preached an early revolutionary sermon on <i>The Danger of Unlimited Submission</i>. Many went to war as <a href="/wiki/Military_chaplain" title="Military chaplain">chaplains</a>, and some actually bore arms in times of extreme danger. Because of their overwhelming support for independence, Congregational ministers were called the "Black Regiment" or "Black-Robed Regiment" by the British.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998114_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998114-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Domestic_expansion">Domestic expansion</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Domestic expansion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Congregational_Church_of_Austinburg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Congregational_Church_of_Austinburg.jpg/220px-Congregational_Church_of_Austinburg.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Congregational_Church_of_Austinburg.jpg/330px-Congregational_Church_of_Austinburg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Congregational_Church_of_Austinburg.jpg/440px-Congregational_Church_of_Austinburg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6016" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Congregational_Church_Of_Austinburg" title="Congregational Church Of Austinburg">Congregational Church of Austinburg</a>, organized in 1801, is the second oldest Congregational church in Ohio and the oldest in the <a href="/wiki/Western_Reserve" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Reserve">Western Reserve</a>. The current building dates to 1877.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894311_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894311-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>By 1776, there were 668 Congregational churches—21 percent of all churches in America.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENoll2002162_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENoll2002162-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Congregationalism had been a tradition largely confined to New England, but Congregationalists would migrate westward as the new United States expanded. Vermont was the first of these new territories to be opened up. The first church was established in 1762, but there were 74 Congregational churches in Vermont by 1800. Those churches organized a General Convention for that state in 1796. The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Vermont" title="University of Vermont">University of Vermont</a> and <a href="/wiki/Middlebury_College" title="Middlebury College">Middlebury College</a> were founded by Congregationalists.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894309–310_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894309–310-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Congregational churches had been present in eastern New York prior to the Revolution, but expansion into the central and western parts of that state took place in the 1790s as emigration increased from Massachusetts and Connecticut. As New Englanders settled in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Northwest" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Northwest">Old Northwest</a>, they brought Congregationalism with them. The First Congregational Church of <a href="/wiki/Marietta,_Ohio" title="Marietta, Ohio">Marietta, Ohio</a>, gathered in 1796, is the oldest Congregational church in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894310–311_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894310–311-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1798, the Connecticut General Association created the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Connecticut_Missionary_Society&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Connecticut Missionary Society (page does not exist)">Connecticut Missionary Society</a> to provide for the religious needs of the new settlements. Between 1798 and 1818, the society sent 148 ministers to the frontier settlements of northern New England, Pennsylvania, and the Old Northwest. Initially, the society recruited settled pastors to undertake four-month tours in the new settlements. When this approach proved unworkable, the society shed its opposition to itinerant ministry and began ordaining young men to serve as full-time evangelists. These operated similarly to the <a href="/wiki/Methodist_circuit_rider" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist circuit rider">Methodist circuit riders</a>, "moving from town to town, preaching revival sermons, catechizing youth, administering the sacraments, and distributing religious literature." The society distributed <a href="/wiki/Tract_(literature)" title="Tract (literature)">tracts</a>, hymnals, sermon collections, and theological treatises for use in religious worship and education. Reflecting the ideology of its leaders, the society's literature heavily favored the writings of Jonathan Edwards and the New Divinity. Its most widely circulated publication was the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Connecticut_Evangelical_Magazine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Connecticut Evangelical Magazine (page does not exist)">Connecticut Evangelical Magazine</a></i>, which provided coverage of revivals and missions around the world and which was read as far south as Georgia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohrer199917–19_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERohrer199917–19-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1799, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Missionary_Society&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Massachusetts Missionary Society (page does not exist)">Massachusetts Missionary Society</a> was established under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Nathanael_Emmons" title="Nathanael Emmons">Nathanael Emmons</a>. Like its Connecticut counterpart, it was dominated by Edwardseans and published its own periodical, the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Missionary_Magazine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Massachusetts Missionary Magazine (page does not exist)">Massachusetts Missionary Magazine</a></i>. The <a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Hampshire_Missionary_Society&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Hampshire Missionary Society (page does not exist)">New Hampshire Missionary Society</a> was organized in 1801, and the Vermont General Convention organized its own missionary society in 1807.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894313_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894313-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Besides those dedicated to missions, Congregationalists created voluntary societies for encouraging education, Bible reading, and moral reform. Some of these became national organizations, such as the <a href="/wiki/American_Education_Society" title="American Education Society">American Education Society</a> in 1815 (which provided financial aid for <a href="/wiki/Seminary" title="Seminary">seminary</a> students), the <a href="/wiki/American_Bible_Society" title="American Bible Society">American Bible Society</a> in 1816, the <a href="/wiki/American_Colonization_Society" title="American Colonization Society">American Colonization Society</a> in 1817, and the <a href="/wiki/American_Temperance_Society" title="American Temperance Society">American Temperance Society</a> in 1826. Some of these were joint projects with Presbyterians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998127–128_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998127–128-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Foreign_missions">Foreign missions</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Foreign missions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church.JPG/220px-Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church.JPG/330px-Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church.JPG/440px-Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church" title="Kawaiahaʻo Church">Kawaiahaʻo Church</a>, known as the "<a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a> of Hawaii."</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the example of the churches in Connecticut and Vermont, Congregationalists in other parts of the Northeast formed statewide associations. The Massachusetts General Association was founded in 1803 by the Old Calvinists and Edwardseans of that state.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894323_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894323-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1808, the churches in Rhode Island organized the Evangelical Consociation of Rhode Island. The New Hampshire General Association was established in 1809. The General Conference of Maine was founded sometime in the 1820s, and the New York General Association was formed in 1834.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaconFieldGillett1843340,_344,_346,_348_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaconFieldGillett1843340,_344,_346,_348-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1810, a group of students at <a href="/wiki/Andover_Theological_Seminary" title="Andover Theological Seminary">Andover Theological Seminary</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_John_Mills" title="Samuel John Mills">Samuel John Mills</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adoniram_Judson" title="Adoniram Judson">Adoniram Judson</a>, convinced the Massachusetts General Association to support the creation of a foreign missionary society. The Connecticut General Association was invited to participate as well and hosted the first meeting of the <a href="/wiki/American_Board_of_Commissioners_for_Foreign_Missions" title="American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions">American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions</a>. Through the American Board, Congregational churches supported missionaries in India, Ceylon, South Africa, Turkey, and the Hawaiian Islands.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998129–130_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998129–130-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The American Board also established missions among Native American tribes, including the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Tetons, Blackfeet, and Winnebagos. As a plaintiff in <a href="/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia" title="Worcester v. Georgia">Worcester v. Georgia</a>, American Board missionary <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Worcester" title="Samuel Worcester">Samuel Worcester</a> fought to prevent the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_removal" title="Cherokee removal">forced relocation of the Cherokees</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> ruled in his favor. When President <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> refused to enforce the decision, the Cherokee were sent to Oklahoma, and American Board missionaries followed them there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998130_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998130-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Union_with_Presbyterians">Union with Presbyterians</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Union with Presbyterians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Plan_of_Union_of_1801" title="Plan of Union of 1801">Plan of Union of 1801</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lyman_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Lyman_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/220px-Lyman_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Lyman_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/330px-Lyman_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Lyman_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/440px-Lyman_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3104" data-file-height="4128" /></a><figcaption>Revivalist and social reformer <a href="/wiki/Lyman_Beecher" title="Lyman Beecher">Lyman Beecher</a> served both Congregational and Presbyterian churches during his ministry.</figcaption></figure> <p>The challenge of building churches and providing ministers for western settlements motivated many Congregationalists to engage in closer cooperation with the Presbyterians. While the two denominations had different systems of church government, they were both parts of the Calvinist tradition. This shared heritage and the necessity of evangelizing the west led them to form united Presbyterian-Congregational institutions and churches in areas where ministers and resources were in short supply. This cooperation was formalized in the <a href="/wiki/Plan_of_Union_of_1801" title="Plan of Union of 1801">Plan of Union</a>, first adopted in 1801 between the <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_the_United_States_of_America" title="Presbyterian Church in the United States of America">Presbyterian Church in the United States of America</a> and the General Association of Connecticut.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998121_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998121-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plan was later adopted by the Vermont General Convention, the New Hampshire General Association, and the Massachusetts General Association.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThompson189572_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThompson189572-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The plan allowed for churches to hire pastors from either denomination and the creation of mixed churches that could belong to either a Congregational association or a local <a href="/wiki/Presbytery_(church_polity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbytery (church polity)">presbytery</a> of the Presbyterian Church. Church discipline, however, was to be administered by a committee with members from both denominations. When disputes arose, churches could appeal to councils representing both Congregationalists and Presbyterians. Union colleges were also created, such as <a href="/wiki/Knox_College_(Illinois)" title="Knox College (Illinois)">Knox College</a> in Illinois, which continues its dual affiliation with the <a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ">United Church of Christ</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_(USA)" title="Presbyterian Church (USA)">Presbyterian Church (USA)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998121–122_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998121–122-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Presbyterians gained more from the union than the Congregationalists. Around 2000 churches founded as Congregationalists in the states of New York, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan switched allegiance to the Presbyterian Church. The union was also damaged by a conflict between conservatives and liberals in both denominations. A major blow to the plan occurred in 1837 when the Presbyterian Church split as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Old_School%E2%80%93New_School_Controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Old School–New School Controversy">Old School–New School Controversy</a>. The Old School Presbyterians withdrew from the union, but the New School Presbyterians remained. The union was further damaged by tensions over slavery. In 1852, a national convention of Congregational churches met in Albany, New York, and ended the Plan of Union.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998122–123_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998122–123-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Unitarian_controversy">Unitarian controversy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Unitarian controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Unitarianism#Formative_period" title="History of Unitarianism">History of Unitarianism § Formative period</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boston_ca1890.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Boston_ca1890.png/220px-Boston_ca1890.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Boston_ca1890.png/330px-Boston_ca1890.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Boston_ca1890.png 2x" data-file-width="405" data-file-height="444" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Park_Street_Church" title="Park Street Church">Park Street Church</a> in Boston, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1890</span></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey_Frank_O._Branzetti,_Photographer_April_16,_1941_(a)_EXT.-FRONT_and_SIDE,_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_-_Allin_Congregational_Church,_High_Street,_Dedham,_HABS_MASS,11-DED,6-1.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Historic_American_Buildings_Survey_Frank_O._Branzetti%2C_Photographer_April_16%2C_1941_%28a%29_EXT.-FRONT_and_SIDE%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_-_Allin_Congregational_Church%2C_High_Street%2C_Dedham%2C_HABS_MASS%2C11-DED%2C6-1.tif/lossy-page1-185px-thumbnail.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="185" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Historic_American_Buildings_Survey_Frank_O._Branzetti%2C_Photographer_April_16%2C_1941_%28a%29_EXT.-FRONT_and_SIDE%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_-_Allin_Congregational_Church%2C_High_Street%2C_Dedham%2C_HABS_MASS%2C11-DED%2C6-1.tif/lossy-page1-278px-thumbnail.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Historic_American_Buildings_Survey_Frank_O._Branzetti%2C_Photographer_April_16%2C_1941_%28a%29_EXT.-FRONT_and_SIDE%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_-_Allin_Congregational_Church%2C_High_Street%2C_Dedham%2C_HABS_MASS%2C11-DED%2C6-1.tif/lossy-page1-370px-thumbnail.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3448" data-file-height="4873" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Allin_Congregational_Church" title="Allin Congregational Church">Allin Congregational Church</a>, built in 1819, lost the Dedham case.</figcaption></figure> <p>Since the 17th century, Congregationalists had managed to maintain unity despite disagreements over the role of man and God in salvation and the adoption by liberals of <a href="/wiki/Nontrinitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Nontrinitarian">nontrinitarian</a> theological ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998127_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998127-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the start of the 19th century, however, there was less willingness to tolerate theological liberalism. The <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening" title="Second Great Awakening">Second Great Awakening</a> had initiated a new wave of revivalism and a more aggressive stance from conservatives. Old Calvinists and Edwardseans, while not ignoring their own differences, agreed that they needed to work together to defend the "evangelical truth" from liberalism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894333_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894333-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "<a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">orthodox</a>" or <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism_in_the_United_States" title="Evangelicalism in the United States">evangelicals</a>, as they came to be known, were united around the omnipotence of God, the necessity of conversion, a converted church membership, and the literal truth of the Bible. They were actively involved in evangelism and expansion through voluntary societies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECayton199786–87_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECayton199786–87-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the 19th century, the liberals had evolved into <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarians</a>. Not only did they deny the doctrine of the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a> as unscriptural, they believed the Bible should be interpreted rationally, not in a literal manner. Their preaching focused on <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a> rather than on doctrine and did not limit church membership to the converted. Unitarians did not participate in evangelistic societies due to their conviction that people informed by reason and scripture should be free to believe what they wanted. When they did organize, they tended to focus on education and philanthropic causes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECayton199786–87_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECayton199786–87-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Unitarian controversy was initiated when conservatives, led by Yale-educated geographer and Boston-area minister <a href="/wiki/Jedidiah_Morse" title="Jedidiah Morse">Jedidiah Morse</a>, opposed the appointment of liberal <a href="/wiki/Henry_Ware_(Unitarian)" title="Henry Ware (Unitarian)">Henry Ware</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Hollis_Chair_of_Divinity" class="mw-redirect" title="Hollis Chair of Divinity">Hollis Chair of Divinity</a> at Harvard University in 1805. While unsuccessful, Morse was able to form a network of conservative ministers from the Boston area, mainly outside the city itself, as Boston's churches were overwhelmingly liberal. Conservatives began closing their pulpits to liberal ministers, and <a href="/wiki/Park_Street_Church" title="Park Street Church">Park Street Church</a> was established in 1809 to provide Boston with an evangelical church. In the years after the Ware controversy, Harvard became increasingly partisan, supporting only the liberal party.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECayton199787_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECayton199787-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1808, Edwardseans and Old Calvinists joined forces and established <a href="/wiki/Andover_Theological_Seminary" title="Andover Theological Seminary">Andover Theological Seminary</a> as an alternative to liberal Harvard. Andover was the first Protestant seminary in North America.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECaldwell201240_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECaldwell201240-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1815, Morse published <i>Review of American Unitarianism</i>, which accused Unitarians of <a href="/wiki/Infidel" title="Infidel">infidelity</a> and heresy. <a href="/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing" title="William Ellery Channing">William Ellery Channing</a>, pastor of the Boston's <a href="/wiki/Federal_Street_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Street Church">Federal Street Church</a>, responded by accusing conservatives of instigating theological controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECayton199788_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECayton199788-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1819, Channing went on to deliver an important sermon in defense of liberal religion titled "Unitarian Christianity". The split was complete by 1825 when the liberals established the <a href="/wiki/American_Unitarian_Association" title="American Unitarian Association">American Unitarian Association</a>, thereby acknowledging a separate denominational identity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998127_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998127-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Disestablishment">Disestablishment</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Disestablishment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the start of the 19th century, Congregationalism remained the <a href="/wiki/Established_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Established church">established church</a> of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This meant that Congregational churches were financially supported through taxation. In 1818, however, Connecticut's new state constitution required <a href="/wiki/Disestablishmentarianism" title="Disestablishmentarianism">disestablishment</a>. New Hampshire followed a year later with the passage of the Toleration Act, which stripped Congregational churches of their special status.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998128_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998128-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Massachusetts was slower to end state support of Congregationalism, but disestablishment was made more likely after the Unitarian <a href="/wiki/Schism" title="Schism">schism</a>. Congregational parishes were divided into two groups: parishioners who lived within the parish's geographical boundaries and full church members, who tended to be a numerical minority. In many parishes, the majority of parishioners supported the more liberal Unitarians, but the church members remained Trinitarian. In 1820, the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Massachusetts Supreme Court">Massachusetts Supreme Court</a> ruled in the <a href="/wiki/Dedham_Case" class="mw-redirect" title="Dedham Case">Dedham case</a> that the majority of the parish (not just the church members) could hire ministers and manage church business.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOlds1994281_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOlds1994281-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This effectively disenfranchised conservatives in the Boston area, who were usually the minority.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECayton199788_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECayton199788-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1821 and 1833, Trinitarians lost control of over a hundred churches to the Unitarians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOlds1994282_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOlds1994282-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Dedham case ruling by Justice <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Parker_(congressman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Isaac Parker (congressman)">Isaac Parker</a>, who happened to be a Unitarian, determined that the minority in a church split not only lost its claim on the church property but also lost its status as an established church. As tax-supported congregations continued to defect to Unitarianism, the Dedham case increased conservative support for disestablishment. In 1833, the state constitution was amended to eliminate church taxes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998128_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998128-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_theological_disputes">Other theological disputes</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Other theological disputes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Andover_Theological_Seminary_by_J_Kidder.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Andover_Theological_Seminary_by_J_Kidder.jpeg/220px-Andover_Theological_Seminary_by_J_Kidder.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Andover_Theological_Seminary_by_J_Kidder.jpeg/330px-Andover_Theological_Seminary_by_J_Kidder.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Andover_Theological_Seminary_by_J_Kidder.jpeg/440px-Andover_Theological_Seminary_by_J_Kidder.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="475" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Andover_Theological_Seminary" title="Andover Theological Seminary">Andover Theological Seminary</a>, established in 1807</figcaption></figure> <p>As the Unitarian division was solidifying, the New Divinity was itself fracturing into different branches. <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Dwight_IV" title="Timothy Dwight IV">Timothy Dwight</a>, who became president of Yale University in 1795, ensured that Edwardsean theology dominated at that institution. He was also responsible for creating a theologically moderate party among Edwardseans that placed more emphasis on human action through means of grace. Yale professor <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_William_Taylor" title="Nathaniel William Taylor">Nathaniel William Taylor</a> carried this further in what became known as the New Haven theology, which essentially claimed that humans could reject sin and choose God. <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998126_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs1998126-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Critics found in the New Haven theology echoes of Unitarianism and <a href="/wiki/Pelagianism" title="Pelagianism">Pelagianism</a>, and the Edwardseans were enmeshed in the Taylorite Controversy through the 1830s. 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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 <a href="/wiki/Southern_U.S." class="mw-redirect" title="Southern U.S.">South</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwest</a>. Both groups, however, held to local autonomy and eschewed binding creedal authority. </p><p>In the early 20th century, some Congregational (later Congregational Christian) churches took exception to the beginnings of growth of regional or national authority in bodies outside the local church, such as mission societies, national committees, and state conferences. Some congregations opposed liberalizing influences that appeared to mitigate traditional views of sin and corollary doctrines such as the <a href="/wiki/Substitutionary_atonement" title="Substitutionary atonement">substitutionary atonement</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>. In 1948, some adherents of these two streams of thought (mainly the latter one) started a new fellowship, the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Congregational_Christian_Conference" title="Conservative Congregational Christian Conference">Conservative Congregational Christian Conference</a> (CCCC). It was the first major fellowship to organize outside of the mainstream Congregational body since 1825, when the <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarians</a> formally founded their own body. </p><p>In 1957, the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches in the U.S. merged with the <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_and_Reformed_Church" title="Evangelical and Reformed Church">Evangelical and Reformed Church</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ">United Church of Christ</a>. About 90% of the CC congregations affiliated with the General Council joined the United Church of Christ.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Some churches abstained from the merger, while others voted it down. Most of the latter congregations became members of either the CCCC (mentioned above) or the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Congregational_Christian_Churches" title="National Association of Congregational Christian Churches">National Association of Congregational Christian Churches</a>. The latter was formed by churches and people who objected to the UCC merger because of concerns that the new national church and its regional bodies represented extra-congregational authorities that would interfere with a congregation's right to govern itself. Thus, the NACCC includes congregations of a variety of theological positions. 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRohr2009" class="citation book cs1">Rohr, John Von (4 August 2009). <i>Shaping of American Congregationalism 1620-1957</i>. The Pilgrim Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8298-2077-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8298-2077-5"><bdi>978-0-8298-2077-5</bdi></a>. <q>Although the Savoy Declaration's confessin of faith was based largely upon that of Westminster, the section entitled "The Institution of Churches" became an important late seventeenth-century document depicting the congregational form of church order.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Shaping+of+American+Congregationalism+1620-1957&rft.pub=The+Pilgrim+Press&rft.date=2009-08-04&rft.isbn=978-0-8298-2077-5&rft.aulast=Rohr&rft.aufirst=John+Von&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Fields2024-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Fields2024_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFields2024" class="citation book cs1">Fields, C. Ryan (6 February 2024). <i>Local and Universal: A Free Church Account of Ecclesial Catholicity</i>. InterVarsity Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5140-0672-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5140-0672-6"><bdi>978-1-5140-0672-6</bdi></a>. <q>After the doctrinal exposition there follows a section titled "The Institution of Churches, and the Order Appointed in Them by Jesus Christ," which further specifies how their polity differs from the Presbyterian divines.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Local+and+Universal%3A+A+Free+Church+Account+of+Ecclesial+Catholicity&rft.pub=InterVarsity+Press&rft.date=2024-02-06&rft.isbn=978-1-5140-0672-6&rft.aulast=Fields&rft.aufirst=C.+Ryan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavieGrassHolmesMcDowell2016" class="citation book cs1">Davie, Martin; Grass, Tim; Holmes, Stephen R.; McDowell, John; Noble, T.A., eds. (21 April 2016). <i>New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systematic (Second Edition)</i>. Inter-Varsity Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78359-457-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78359-457-3"><bdi>978-1-78359-457-3</bdi></a>. <q>Cambridge Platform (1648) and Savoy Declaration (1658) were the fundamental formularies of, respectively, American and English Congregationalism. In doctrine they essentially reproduced the Westminster Confession, with the changes needed to provide for a church polity of independent congregations (Schaff; Leith; W. Walker, <i>The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism</i>, New York, 1893).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=New+Dictionary+of+Theology%3A+Historical+and+Systematic+%28Second+Edition%29&rft.pub=Inter-Varsity+Press&rft.date=2016-04-21&rft.isbn=978-1-78359-457-3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Melton2005-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Melton2005_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMelton2005" class="citation book cs1">Melton, J. Gordon (2005). <i>Encyclopedia of Protestantism</i>. Infobase Publishing. p. 161. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8160-6983-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8160-6983-5"><bdi>978-0-8160-6983-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+Protestantism&rft.pages=161&rft.pub=Infobase+Publishing&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-8160-6983-5&rft.aulast=Melton&rft.aufirst=J.+Gordon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPastoorJohnson2009" class="citation book cs1">Pastoor, Charles; Johnson, Galen K. (28 September 2009). <i>The A to Z of the Puritans</i>. Scarecrow Press. p. 84. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-7039-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-7039-0"><bdi>978-0-8108-7039-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+A+to+Z+of+the+Puritans&rft.pages=84&rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&rft.date=2009-09-28&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-7039-0&rft.aulast=Pastoor&rft.aufirst=Charles&rft.au=Johnson%2C+Galen+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremer20092–3-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremer20092–3_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBremer2009">Bremer 2009</a>, pp. 2–3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremer20099,_20-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremer20099,_20_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBremer2009">Bremer 2009</a>, pp. 9, 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199914,_33-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199914,_33_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, pp. 14, 33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremer200921–22-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremer200921–22_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBremer2009">Bremer 2009</a>, pp. 21–22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894116-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894116_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, p. 116.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199918-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199918_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199918_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, p. 18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199920–22-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199920–22_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, pp. 20–22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-quote-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-quote_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, p. 17,19: "Likewise, though it had been practiced in New England for several years, they reaffirmed from First Corinthians that 'churches should be churches of saints' and must therefore require of members a test of grace, or conversion."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremer200920-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremer200920_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBremer2009">Bremer 2009</a>, p. 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199913-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199913_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, p. 13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199924,_26-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199924,_26_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, pp. 24, 26.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894114,_221-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894114,_221_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, pp. 114, 221.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199831-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199831_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199955–56-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199955–56_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, pp. 55–56.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199957-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199957_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, p. 57.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199976-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199976_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, p. 76.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunning1894144-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDunning1894144_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDunning1894">Dunning 1894</a>, p. 144.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199969–70-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199969–70_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, pp. 69–70.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECooper199979–84-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooper199979–84_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCooper1999">Cooper 1999</a>, p. 79–84.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894165–168-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894165–168_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, pp. 165–168.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunning1894170-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDunning1894170_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDunning1894">Dunning 1894</a>, p. 170.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199857–59-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199857–59_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, pp. 57–59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199860-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199860_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199862-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199862_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 62.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199863–64-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199863–64_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, pp. 63–64.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199852-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199852_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 52.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199867-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199867_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199872-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199872_33-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199872_33-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 72.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894199-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894199_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, p. 199.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894200-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894200_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, p. 200.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894200–201-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894200–201_36-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, pp. 200–201.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKidd200721-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKidd200721_37-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKidd2007">Kidd 2007</a>, p. 21.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894202–204-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894202–204_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, pp. 202–204.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894207–208-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894207–208_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, pp. 207–208.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894206-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894206_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, p. 206.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883_41-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883_41-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199883_41-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 83.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENoll2002162-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENoll2002162_42-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENoll2002162_42-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNoll2002">Noll 2002</a>, p. 162.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894251-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894251_43-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, p. 251.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199873-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199873_44-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199873_44-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 73.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894252-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894252_45-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, p. 252.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199874-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199874_46-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 74.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199874–75-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199874–75_47-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, pp. 74–75.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199879-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199879_48-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 79.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199882-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199882_49-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 82.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894259-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894259_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, p. 259.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker1894261–262-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker1894261–262_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker1894">Walker 1894</a>, pp. 261–262.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199884-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199884_52-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199884_52-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 84.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETaves199971-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaves199971_53-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTaves1999">Taves 1999</a>, p. 71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoungs199888-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoungs199888_54-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYoungs1998">Youngs 1998</a>, p. 88.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984241-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitenbach1984241_55-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBreitenbach1984">Breitenbach 1984</a>, p. 241.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDorrien20011,_5-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a 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University of Texas Press: 17–26. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25548686">25548686</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Libraries+%26+Culture&rft.atitle=The+Connecticut+Missionary+Society+and+Book+Distribution+in+the+Early+Republic&rft.ssn=winter&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=17-26&rft.date=1999&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F25548686%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Rohrer&rft.aufirst=James+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTaves1999" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ann_Taves" title="Ann Taves">Taves, Ann</a> (1999). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/fitstrancesvisio0000tave"><i>Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James</i></a></span>. Princeton, New Jersey: <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University_Press" title="Princeton University Press">Princeton University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0691010243" title="Special:BookSources/978-0691010243"><bdi>978-0691010243</bdi></a>. <q>Fits, Trances, and Visions: experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Fits%2C+Trances%2C+and+Visions%3A+Experiencing+Religion+and+Explaining+Experience+from+Wesley+to+James&rft.place=Princeton%2C+New+Jersey&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-0691010243&rft.aulast=Taves&rft.aufirst=Ann&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffitstrancesvisio0000tave&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThompson1895" class="citation book cs1">Thompson, Robert Ellis (1895). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Bas8AAAAYAAJ&q=A+History+of+the+Presbyterian+Churches+in+the+United+States"><i>A History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States</i></a>. 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Westport, Connecticut: <a href="/wiki/Greenwood_Publishing_Group" title="Greenwood Publishing Group">Praeger</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780275964412" title="Special:BookSources/9780275964412"><bdi>9780275964412</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Congregationalists&rft.place=Westport%2C+Connecticut&rft.series=Denominations+in+America&rft.edition=Student&rft.pub=Praeger&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=9780275964412&rft.aulast=Youngs&rft.aufirst=J.+William+T.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DkOuBhis1-7QC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Congregationalism_in_the_United_States&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-hanging-indents refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCampbell2013" class="citation web cs1">Campbell, Donna M. (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/purdef.htm">"Puritanism in New England"</a>. <i>wsu.edu</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 4,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=wsu.edu&rft.atitle=Puritanism+in+New+England&rft.date=2013&rft.aulast=Campbell&rft.aufirst=Donna+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.wsu.edu%2F~campbelld%2Famlit%2Fpurdef.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACongregationalism+in+the+United+States" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hooker" title="Thomas Hooker">Hooker, Thomas</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/surveyofsummeofc00hook"><i>A Survey of the Summe of Church-Discipline</i></a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJefferson1910" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Jefferson" title="Charles Edward Jefferson">Jefferson, Charles Edward</a> (1910). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/congregationali00jeffgoog"><i>Congregationalism</i></a>. 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