congregationalist

[kahng-gri-gay-shuhn-uhl-ist]

noun

1. a person, especially a member of the clergy, who adheres to congregationalism as a form of church government.

2. a member of any congregation.

3. Congregationalist, a member or minister of a Congregational church.

adjective

1. relating or adhering to congregationalism as a form of church government.

2. Congregationalist, relating or belonging to the movement that gave rise to the Congregational or Independent churches in England after the Protestant Reformation.

Example Sentences

In response, the actor — who was born to a Jewish mother, raised in a Congregationalist Christian church and maintains a pluralistic view of religion — shared some historical theories about the identity of Jesus’ biological father, whether Mary’s virginal status is literal or figurative and, if the latter, whether Jesus’ conception was consensual, given her young age at the time.

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And since Morse was the son of a Congregationalist minister, it seems, on one level, unsurprising that he'd use divine rhetoric.

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“We realized we could not be complacent; we had to fight against that kind of bigotry and not discriminate,” said James White, who was pastor of the city’s First Congregationalist Church during the 1990s and opposed the discriminatory amendment.

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Congregationalist minister Jonathan Mayhew found scripture to be teaching that “wise, brave and virtuous men were always friends to liberty.”

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"One of the things that struck me, as a relative newcomer," said Jackson, a former Congregationalist minister, "was that there was not sufficient understanding about the theological frames used by many individuals who are opposed to abortion."

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