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C. C. Watts (pastor)
Charles Cameron Watts (c. February 1895 – 13 March 1965) was an Australian Congregationalist pastor. History Watts was born in Elsternwick, Victoria, a son of C(harles) George Watts, and educated at Canterbury Grammar School, and began working in a commercial business, but soon decided for the religious life and matriculated at Caulfield Grammar School before enlisting in the 1st AIF and serving with the 12th Field Ambulance at Gallipoli, Egypt and France. He demobbed in England, where he continued his theological studies, which he completed in Australia. He was secretary of the Theological Students' Union. He served as pastor at the Congregationalist church Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ... on Rathdown Street, Carlton, Victoria, from 1922 and was ordained, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregationalist Pastor
Congregationalist polity, or congregational polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church (congregation) is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomy, autonomous". Its first articulation in writing is the Cambridge Platform of 1648 in New England. Major Protestantism, Protestant Christian traditions that employ congregationalism include Quakerism, the Baptists, Baptist churches, the Congregational Methodist Church, and Congregational churches known by the ''Congregationalist'' name and having descended from the Independent (religion), Independent Reformed wing of the Anglo-American Puritan movement of the 17th century. More recent generations have witnessed a growing number of Nondenominational Christianity, nondenominational churches, which are often congregationalist in their governance. Congregationalism is distinguished from episcopal polity which is governance by a hierarchy of bishops, and is distinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |