Appropriating The Cambridge Platform’s Neo-Congregational Polity
This article argues that Baptists can learn, with regard to their practice of governance, from the seventeenth-century Congregational churches of New-England. After showing that The Cambridge Platform of Discipline (1648) offers two accounts of polity, ‘congregational’ and ‘neo-congregational’, it i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Ecclesiology
Year: 2025, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 80-104 |
| Further subjects: | B
Baptist theology
B 1689 London Confession B Neo-Congregationalism B Ecclesiastical Polity B Ecclesiology B 1644 London Confession B Cambridge Platform of Discipline B Congregationalism |
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| Summary: | This article argues that Baptists can learn, with regard to their practice of governance, from the seventeenth-century Congregational churches of New-England. After showing that The Cambridge Platform of Discipline (1648) offers two accounts of polity, ‘congregational’ and ‘neo-congregational’, it is argued that neo-congregational polity is not only more desirable than congregational polity (as the Platform argued) but offers a more consistent account of biblical ecclesiology. Baptist churches, sharing similar roots and ecclesiology with Congregationalism, stand to benefit from the insights of their seventeenth-century brothers and sisters. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5316 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ecclesiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455316-bja10050 |
