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Episcopal polity is the predominant pattern in Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Anglican churches. It is common in some Methodist and Lutheran churches, as well as amongst some of the African-American Pentecostal traditions such as the Church of God in Christ and the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship. [5]
Congregational polity, or congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church (congregation) is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous". Its first articulation in writing is the Cambridge Platform of 1648 in New England.
A few African-American Baptist congregations have ordained or started calling their senior minister bishop, but without changing congregational polity.In the National Baptist Convention (USA), its statement of faith teaches the bishop and pastor are synonymous; [2] in the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, the bishop and pastor are separate offices.
The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...
The primitive church as a normative principle in the theology of the sixteenth century: the Anglican-Puritan debate over church polity as represented by Richard Hooker and Thomas Cartwright (Thesis). Hartford Seminary Foundation. OCLC 4175378. Beker, J. Christiaan (1992). "The Authority of Scripture: Normative or Incidental?". Theology Today.
Most Baptists hold that no church or ecclesiastical organization has inherent authority over a Baptist church. Churches can properly relate to each other under this polity only through voluntary cooperation, never by any sort of coercion. Furthermore, this Baptist polity calls for freedom from governmental control. [76]
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The Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada was formed in 1905-1906 as the United Baptist Convention of the Maritimes by a union of Free, or Free Will Baptists and Calvinistic or Regular Baptists. [2] The Regular Baptist and Free Will Baptist congregations wrote a statement of faith and polity called the "Basis of Union" with which both groups ...