Associations to the word «Congregationalism»

Wiktionary

CONGREGATIONALISM, noun. Any of several forms of church organization in which each congregation is responsible for its own government
CONGREGATIONALISM, noun. A system of self-governing Protestant churches

Dictionary definition

CONGREGATIONALISM, noun. System of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope