... the authority of the orthodox erudite (typically Congregational) clergy. Congregationalists Dutch Reform Church Massachusetts Quakers Arminius Jacob Church of England Anglican Church Colman Benjamin Cotton John enthusiasm Harvard College Huygens Christiaan Mather Cotton Mather Nathaniel Newton...

...During the 1780s and 1790s, Congregationalism predominated on the religious landscape of southern New England. Compared to other denominations, the Congregationalists enjoyed a tax‐supported religious establishment in Massachusetts and Connecticut, large numbers of churches and clergymen, influence...

..., urge repentance from sin, and instruct the people in obedience to those in power. Although they shared the Congregationalists’ concern for social morality and a strong belief in Providence, religious minorities led by the Baptists dissented from the standing order's social vision on practical...

... in the civil leadership, who acted more from political expediency than from the clergy's prescribed principles of godly magistracy. At the same time, the outbreak of the Unitarian controversy divided Congregationalists in Massachusetts into Unitarian and orthodox wings, which inhibited them in the competition...

... Dickinson John Baptists Congregationalists First Amendment freedom of conscience Methodists Presbyterians Quakers thirteen colonies toleration Most of the colonists who came to the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were from England, including significant numbers...

...At the end of the first-ever National Council of Congregational Churches (1865), Congregationalists were reluctant to embrace either the figure of John Calvin or the words that descend from him (Calvinistic, Calvinism). Why? This question animates the chapter. The story starts with the Unitarian...

...This chapter covers the publishing history of some of the main authors discussed in the book, the Congregationalists Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, and Elizabeth Rowe, the Methodists John Wesley and George Whitefield, and the Church of England evangelicals James Hervey, John Newton, and William...

..., and the problem of denominational identity among Presbyterians and Congregationalists, I turn to Hussey’s presentations of oral and written conversion narratives given in his congregations. The rich vocabulary of emotions that both applicants and hearers were expected to encounter shaped the delivery...

... percent. This growth stunned the older denominations. At mid-century, American Methodism was nearly half again as large as any other Protestant body, and almost ten times the size of the Congregationalists, America’s largest denomination in 1776 These figures are even more impressive when one considers...

...Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded...

...Ministerial training throughout the nineteenth century was dogged by persistent uncertainties about what Dissenters wanted ministers to do: were they to be preachers or scholars, settled pastors or roving missionaries? Sects and denominations such as the Baptists and Congregationalists invested...

...This introductory chapter examines the role of the past in mainline Protestant churches—more specifically the Congregationalists—and how they have coped with modern, twentieth-century American life. The religious history of the modern era was as much about fortress building as it was about...

... of Scotland) and Congregationalists (New England's establishment) existed in most of the empire. Authorities tolerated politically-loyal protestant dissent, and religious leaders supported the empire's shared fight against Catholic (papist) empires. Anglican network Archbishop of Canterbury Baptists...

... doors in Oakland in 1860, was a typically New England enterprise, conducted by New School Presbyterians and Congregationalists, aspiring to establish the “Yale of the West.” Although the college was struggling and had few students, it was not entirely impoverished. Its most valuable tangible asset...

... marketplace, godly walkers, Separate Congregationalists, Anglican conformists, immortalists, Shakers, and “Nothingarians” trafficked in and out of the churches of the standing order at a startling rate. By 1780, religious insurgents had shattered the Congregational establishment. Councils ecclesiastical...

...The structure of the Nonconformist denominations is divided into two: the centralized such as the Methodists, Presbyterians and Quakers and the decentralized like the Baptists, Brethren, Congregationalists and Unitarians. Centralized structures offered larger national stages for ambitious...

... renovation of the world. The disappearance of a common political foe also meant that Unitarian and orthodox Congregationalists were now free to go their separate ways ideologically. The Unitarians retained a hierarchical outlook and defended the traditional Massachusetts establishment until its end in 1833...

...The chapter examines how evangelical Nonconformists during the Victorian period, Wesleyans, Congregationalists, and Baptists, approached the frontier between this life and the afterlife. Bible and cross, key evangelical emphases, were prominent in their minds. Hymns, books, prayer, and a sense...

... had formal religious establishments. Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and Methodists accounted for the majority of the American population both at the beginning and end of this period, but this simple fact masks an important compositional shift. While the denominations of Old Dissent...

..., the chapter introduces the term “baptistic congregationalists,” a neologism that serves both to avoid anachronistic projection and to more closely connect “Baptists” during the English revolution with the congregational religious culture out of which they emerged. The chapter substantiates this link...