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The Half-Way Covenant was a form of partial church membership adopted by the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s. The Puritan -controlled Congregational churches required evidence of a personal conversion experience before granting church membership and the right to have one's children baptized .
Stoddard is credited with propounding the Half-way Covenant, at Northampton on 18 April 1661. [ 11 ] while young Elezear Mather was the pastor. It represented a reaffirmation of the Communion rules that accompanied a decline of piety in the Congregational church .
In New England, he was a staunch opponent of the recommendations made by the Synod of 1662, known as the Half-Way Covenant, which proposed that the children of "half-way" members (those who had been baptized as infants but who had not given evidence of a "conversion" and been admitted to full membership) be allowed to receive baptism. [9]
The covenant of works (Latin: foedus operum, also called the covenant of life) was made in the Garden of Eden between God and Adam who represented all humankind as a federal head (Romans 5:12–21). God offered Adam a perfect and perpetual life if he did not violate God's single commandment, but warned that death would follow if he disobeyed ...
There the Half-Way Covenant of 1662 allowed parents who had not testified to a conversion experience to have their children baptized, while reserving Holy Communion for converted church members alone. [204] By the 18th century Puritanism was in decline and many ministers expressed alarm at the loss of religious piety.
The Reforming Synod, also called the Synod of Boston [1] was a synod convened in Colonial New England for two sessions in 1679 and 1680. It was convened by the Massachusetts General Court in response to perceived spiritual decay, set to answer two questions: “What are the Evils that have provoked the Lord to bring his judgments on New England?", and, “What is to be done, that so these ...
1. "Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed or line of descent." 2. "This country will not be a good place for any of us to ...
Steinmann was translation coordinator for the God's Word Translation [2] of the Bible, and currently serves on the Translation Oversight Committee for the Christian Standard Bible. [3] He also served as staff pastor at Lutheran Home [ 4 ] in Westlake, Ohio , before he accepted a position at Concordia University Chicago. [ 5 ]