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Next in size and historical importance is the United Church of Christ, which is the historic continuation of the Congregational churches founded under the influence of New England Puritanism. The United Church of Christ also subsumed the third major Calvinist group, the German Reformed, which (then known as the Evangelical and Reformed Church) merged with the Congregationalists in 1957.
Underground Church is a unique and dynamic gathering that combines the intimacy of Jesus' early community with creative and inventive worship experiences. In the warmth and safety of community we explore the scriptures, live out the questions through discussion, and share innovative rituals that bring us closer to each other and to our still-speaking God.
1961 ABCFM merges with Board of International Missions to form the United Church Board for World Ministries (UCBWM)
Constantine, and the compliant bishops who helped give away the soul of the church, truly constituted the third fall...The third fall traces the broad outlines of our move from trusting God to playing God, from working to redeem life on this earth to our sole fixation with membership in the House of Heaven; from our joyful oblivious embrace of equality and compassion to our partisan, self-serving ecclesiastical maneuvers.
The United Church of Christ, a church of the united and uniting church family, was created in 1957, as a union between the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational and Christian churches. Its roots grew out of German Lutheranism, German and Swiss Reformed traditions, Anabaptist Christian Church traditions, and English Congregationalism. The UCC also expresses its Reformed heritage through the presence of the non-geographic Calvin Synod from the Hungarian Reformed tradition.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)The new church embodied the essence of both parents, a complement of freedom with order, of the English and European Reformations with the American Awakenings, of separatism with 20th-century ecumenism, of presbyterian with congregational polities, of neoorthodox with liberal theologies.
Forty Hungarian congregations continue in the United Church of Christ as the Calvin Synod.
The modern UCC is firmly in the progressive Protestant tradition.