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  • 61Outline of Christianity — The Lamb of God with a vexillum and chalice in stained glass, a symbol of Christ as the perfect sacrifice. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Christianity: Christianity (from the word Xριστός Christ ) –… …

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  • 62Congregational Christian Churches in Canada — The Congregational Christian Churches in Canada (or 4Cs) is an evangelical, Protestant, Christian denomination, headquartered in Brantford, Ont., and a member of the World Evangelical Congregational Fellowship. Contents 1 Organization and… …

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  • 63John Clarke (Baptist minister) — For other people with the same name, see John Clarke (disambiguation). John Clarke 3rd and 5th Deputy Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations In office 1669–1670 Governor …

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  • 64Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) — Calvinism John Calvin Background Christianity …

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  • 65Cambridge Platform —    The Cambridge Platform was a presentation of the Congregational form of church polity developed by Puritan leaders in Massachusetts toward the end of their first generation, and published in 1648. As New England Puritanism spread and new… …

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  • 66polity —    A church s polity is its form of government. Like the words politics, police, and policy, the word is ultimately derived from the ancient Greek polis, which evokes both the order and the community of the ancient city state. As Protestantism… …

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  • 67United Kingdom —    Protestantism gained its first foothold in the British Isles thanks to King Henry VIII s search for a male heir. His divorce of the Catholic Catherine of Aragon brought a break with the pope and the Roman Church. The many English nobles and… …

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  • 68United States of America —    The United States is the largest predominantly Protestant country in the world. That dominance began with the establishment of colonies along the Atlantic coast by British, Swedish, and Dutch settlers. The initial settlements brought with them …

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  • 69БРАУН — [англ. Browne] Роберт (ок. 1550, Толторп, Ратлендшир 10.1633, Нортгемптон), англ. протестант. теолог, проповедник, один из основателей конгрегационализма, основоположник радикального направления в пуританстве, названного, по его имени, браунизмом …

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  • 70Barrowist — Bar row*ist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1593. [1913 Webster] …

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