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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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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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The Being of Churches: Neo-Congregational Polity
2023What is a church? Are denominations churches? Who has the authority to ordain ministers of the Gospel? How do we determine what a church gathering should look like? These are questions of “polity”,” or the principles and foundations for the organisation and conduct of a church.
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The Ecumenical Potential of Church Polity
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2015This article is a reflection on Norman Doe's book Christian Law: contemporary principles (2013) from a Protestant and Continental perspective. Against the background of the self-evident impact of ecumenical progress in terms of church polity, it explores the relation between ecumenism and church polity from the opposite perspective: can the academic ...
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The polity of the United and Uniting Churches
2020This chapter explores one aspect of the experiences of united and uniting churches: finding common principles of church law that can support unification processes. It starts with a discussion on this family of churches itself. It presents some telling examples from inter-confessional unions. Diversity is key to these churches.
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Polity and Decision Premises: The Church and the Private School
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1976C 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, Diane G. Sachs
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Boekbespreking: Church Polity, Mission and Unity
NTKR Tijdschrift voor Recht en Religie, 2020openaire +1 more source
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the COVID-19 crisis
West European Politics, 2021Maurizio Ferrera +2 more
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