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The Conservative Congregational Christian Conference is a Congregationalist denomination in the United States. [3] It is the most conservative and oldest Congregationalist denomination in America following the dissolution of the Congregational Christian Churches . [ 4 ]
The list includes the Catholic Church (including Eastern Catholic Churches), Protestant denominations with at least 0.2 million members, the Eastern Orthodox Church (and its offshoots), Oriental Orthodox Churches (and their offshoots), Nontrinitarian Restorationism, independent Catholic denominations, Nestorianism and all the other Christian ...
Christian Reformed Church in North America - around 245,217 members - Evangelical, Conservative, Dutch Reformed, Calvinistic, Egalitarian (women can assume any church office) Evangelical Reformed Church in America - Conservative, Evangelical, Calvinist, Orthodox, Dutch Reformed
The Evangelical Wesleyan Church, formerly known as the Evangelical Wesleyan Church of North America, is a Methodist denomination in the conservative holiness movement. [ 1 ] The formation of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States ; its creation was the result of a schism with the Free ...
Conservative Christianity, also known as conservative theology, theological conservatism, traditional Christianity, [1] [2] or biblical orthodoxy [3] is a grouping of overlapping and denominationally diverse theological movements within Christianity that seeks to retain the orthodox and long-standing traditions and beliefs of Christianity.
Denominations such as the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, which do not believe in a "born again" conversion experience, are labeled "evangelical" just because they are conservative. Other denominations which are historical such as the conservative Southern Baptist Convention (founded in 1845 and the largest baptist denomination in the US) are ...
The result was that Thomas Brattle and his associates built a new church in Boston in 1698. They invited Benjamin Colman, then in England, to become the pastor. Coleman was ordained by Presbyterians in England before leaving for America because it was assumed that the conservative churches of Boston would have opposed his ordination in New England.
(This list is organized chronologically by birth) William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), first published use of the term evangelical in English (1531) John Bunyan (1628–1688), persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of Pilgrim's Progress; Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American Puritan theologian and preacher in the First Great ...