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In The History of Christianity in the United States, Chris Armstrong provides an introduction to the major movements, ideas, figures, and events in American church history, from colonization to recent decades. See how transplanted European churches took root, and American originals sprang up, over the course of five centuries of challenges and opportunities: early settlements, the expansion of...

Third, doctrine was determined at the synod level up at the top. Compare that with the Church of England, where bishops determined doctrine and the monarch had the final say over appointments of bishops, though not over doctrine itself. Fourth, representatives of the people of the local church and local clergy constituted those sessions. The session, the presbytery, and the synod, fifth, all involved both lay and clergy participation. Very different: The overall aim of this system was to bring this

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