Half-Way Covenant
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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 evide
Charles Chauncy, clergyman and president of Harvard from 1654 to 1672, was an outspoken opponent of the Half-Way Covenant.
Increase Mather initially opposed the Half-Way Covenant but was persuaded to support it.
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New England theology
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New England theology is a school of theology which grew up among the Congregationalists of New England, originating in the year 1732, when Jonathan Edwards began his constructive theological work, cul
Samuel Hopkins, proponent of New Divinity
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