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The apostles Peter and John laying hands in ordination. Illustration, 1873.

Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure between churches. Polity relates closely to ecclesiology, the theological study of the church.

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Ecclesiastical polity

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Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity...

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Episcopal polity

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An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops. The...

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Congregational polity

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Congregational polity, or congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church...

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Richard Hooker

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this time, Hooker began to write his major work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, a critique of the Puritans and their attacks on the Church of England...

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Presbyterian polity

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Presbyterian (or presbyteral) polity is a method of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders...

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Reformed Christianity

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churches have emphasized simplicity in worship. Several forms of ecclesiastical polity are exercised by Reformed churches, including presbyterian, congregational...

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Connexionalism

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connectionalism, is the theological understanding and foundation of Methodist ecclesiastical polity, as practised in the Methodist Church in Britain, Ireland, Caribbean...

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Parish

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difficulty to access the main parish church. In the wider picture of ecclesiastical polity, a parish comprises a division of a diocese or see. Parishes within...

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Ecclesiastical government

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supremacy over the State Ecclesiastical polity, the government of a Christian denomination Hierarchy of the Catholic Church Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, jurisdiction...

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Arminianism in the Church of England

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for their arguments in debate, in particular with the king. His Ecclesiastical Polity supplied arguments on justification, less individualistic than the...

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Instrumentum regni

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Tacitus, used to express the exploitation of religion by State or ecclesiastical polity as a means of controlling the masses, or in particular to achieve...

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Bread and circuses

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intelligence Instrumentum regni – Exploitation of religion by State or ecclesiastical polity as a means of controlling the masses List of Latin phrases Panem...

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Christian theology

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different types of polity. It was during this period that Richard Hooker wrote Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity to defend the polity of the Church of...

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Province of Canterbury

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of Canterbury, or less formally the Southern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces which constitute the Church of England. The other is the Province...

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Meeting of parishioners

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The annual meeting of parishioners (also referred to as the annual vestry meeting) is held yearly in every parish of the Church of England to elect churchwardens...

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Properties and finances of the Church of England

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The question of the properties and finances of the Church of England has been publicly raised in the twenty-first century because the declining number...

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Parochial church council

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A parochial church council (PCC) is the executive committee of a Church of England parish and consists of clergy and churchwardens of the parish, together...

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Great Britain

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Scotland, a form of Protestantism with a Presbyterian system of ecclesiastical polity, is the third most numerous on the island with around 2.1 million...

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Mark Driscoll

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sinful and that marriage is between one man and one woman. Regarding ecclesiastical polity, Driscoll favors an elder-led approach. Driscoll formerly adhered...

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Via media

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scholarly study points out that, while Richard Hooker's Law of Ecclesiastical Polity has a reputation as "the classic depiction of the English via media...

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Marcionism

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indeed long known that Marcionite readings found their way into the ecclesiastical text of the Pauline Epistles, but now for seven years we have known...

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Theology

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London: Hurst & Company. p. 1. ISBN 978-1850652724. "Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 3.8.11" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2012...

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Deanery

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A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical...

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Vestry

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A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies, which originally...

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Chapter clerk

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Chapter Clerk is the title usually given to the officer responsible for the administrative support to the Chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church in...

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Progressive Christianity

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Timeline History of Christianity Template:History of Christianity Ecclesiastical polity Trinitarianism Nontrinitarianism Christology Paterology Pneumatology...

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Nontrinitarianism

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apologetical writings.[citation needed] Stuart G Hall (formerly Professor of Ecclesiastical History at King's College, London) describes the subsequent process...

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