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Baptist church polity

2020
The distinctive conviction for Baptists is the reality of the church found in each local congregation of believers, gathered from the wider community, and comprising those who have personal faith expressed through baptism and subsequent discipleship. This congregational polity, with its historic roots in a dissenting and largely Calvinistic faith, also
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Polity and Decision Premises: The Church and the Private School

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1976
C onsiderable evidence suggests that religious denominations' formal (traditional) polity structures, i.e., congregational, presbyterian, and episcopal patterns, persist in influencing internal control and other structural processes of contemporary denominations (e.g., see Harrison, 1959; Gustafson, 1963; Newman, 1970; Wood, 1970; Takayama, 1974 and ...
K Peter Takayama
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